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Date of Patent:
Jan. 15, 2019

Filed:

Jul. 14, 2017
Applicant:

Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);

Inventors:

Xiaoyuan Tu, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Anil K. Kandangath, San Francisco, CA (US);

Assignee:

Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 4/029 (2018.01); H04W 4/04 (2009.01); H04W 24/00 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 4/029 (2018.02); H04W 4/046 (2013.01); H04W 24/00 (2013.01);
Abstract

Methods and devices for detecting a change in a motion state of a user of a mobile device are provided. The method includes determining, based on one or more sensors of the mobile device, that the motion state of the user is a driving state, the driving state indicating that the user is inside a vehicle that is moving, monitoring, with the mobile device, the one or more sensors, determining that a new motion state is a non-driving state. The method further includes identifying a location where the user exited the vehicle using one or more of the measurements from the one or more sensors before the determining that the new motion state is the non-driving state, and identifying the location where the user exited the vehicle as corresponding to a parked location of the vehicle.


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