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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:
Aug. 20, 2019

Filed:

Sep. 14, 2018
Applicant:

Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);

Inventors:

David C. Donley, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Julien A. Poumailloux, San Francisco, CA (US);

Pierre J. De Filippis, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Tyler D. Hawkins, San Jose, CA (US);

Craig P. Dooley, Cupertino, CA (US);

Daniel B. Pollack, San Jose, CA (US);

James C. Grandy, Redwood City, CA (US);

Gregory B. Novick, San Francisco, CA (US);

Todd A. Shortlidge, San Francisco, CA (US);

Aroon Pahwa, Palo Alto, CA (US);

David T. Wilson, Cupertino, CA (US);

Yan Yang, San Jose, CA (US);

Nicholas Joseph Circosta, Mountain View, CA (US);

Assignee:

Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04M 1/725 (2006.01); H04W 56/00 (2009.01); H04M 1/67 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04M 1/7253 (2013.01); H04M 1/72583 (2013.01); H04W 56/0025 (2013.01); H04M 1/67 (2013.01); H04M 2203/6018 (2013.01); H04M 2203/6054 (2013.01); H04M 2250/02 (2013.01);
Abstract

Systems, methods and non-transitory computer readable media for allowing a user to switch between wearable accessories can scan for one or more on-body states from one or more paired accessories, determine based on a difference in on-body states that a switch between accessories has occurred, the switch being to a second accessory from a first accessory, and transmit synchronization data to the second accessory in response to determining that the second accessory has established a communication connection for data exchange with the companion device. Other embodiments are also described.


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