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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Feb. 19, 2019

Filed:

Jun. 06, 2014
Applicant:

Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);

Inventors:

Kevin W. Decker, Los Altos, CA (US);

Dean Jackson, Canberra, AU;

Gavin Barraclough, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Jon Lee, San Francisco, CA (US);

Craig Federighi, Los Altos Hills, CA (US);

Maciej Stachowiak, San Francisco, CA (US);

Assignee:

APPLE INC., Cupertino, CA (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/32 (2006.01); G06F 17/30 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/3246 (2013.01); G06F 1/3206 (2013.01); G06F 1/329 (2013.01); G06F 17/30905 (2013.01); Y02D 10/24 (2018.01); Y02D 10/45 (2018.01);
Abstract

The embodiments disclosed herein describe ways that a browser application or other process can reduce power usage by a computing device. Methods include the process suspending one or more plug-ins on a web page by replacing them with a snapshot taken from the plug-in, and reducing processing on non-media plug-ins and non-visible portions of web pages running in the browser, but not currently in focus, such as when a tab is in the background behind a different tab, when a browser window is minimized, or when the web page is entirely or partially occluded.


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