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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 06, 2019
Filed:
Aug. 31, 2018
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Bradley Joel Jensen, San Francisco, CA (US);
Ronald K. Huang, San Jose, CA (US);
Stephen J. Rhee, San Jose, CA (US);
Jay N. Bruins, Los Altos, CA (US);
Adam M. Driscoll, Atherton, CA (US);
Lukas M. Marti, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Michael P. Dal Santo, San Francisco, CA (US);
Patrick Thomas Dillon, Mountain View, CA (US);
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
Systems, methods, and program products for determining a location of a mobile device using a location application programming interface (API) are described. A mobile device can receive an input requesting the mobile device to monitor entry into and exit from a significant location. The mobile device can call a start-monitoring instance function of an object of a location manager class as declared in the API to start monitoring, and call a stop-monitoring instance function of the object as declared in the API to stop monitoring. The mobile device can store the entry and exit, or provide a record of the entry or exit to a function that is conformant to the API for performing various tasks.