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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. 27, 2019

Filed:

Feb. 29, 2016
Applicant:

Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);

Inventors:

Vipul Ved Prakash, San Francisco, CA (US);

John M. Hörnkvist, Cupertino, CA (US);

Steven Jon Falkenburg, Los Altos, CA (US);

David Salim, Milpitas, CA (US);

Christopher Scott Linn, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Keith Stattenfield, Cupertino, CA (US);

Lun Cui, Fremont, CA (US);

Assignee:

Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 16/00 (2019.01); G06F 16/248 (2019.01); G06F 16/22 (2019.01); G06F 16/2455 (2019.01); G06F 16/9535 (2019.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 16/248 (2019.01); G06F 16/22 (2019.01); G06F 16/2228 (2019.01); G06F 16/2455 (2019.01); G06F 16/9535 (2019.01);
Abstract

A method and apparatus of a device that selects an application state for use in a multi-device search is described. In this embodiment, the device detects, on the device, that the application state has been selected as a query result for a device-level search on that device. The device further transmits the application state to a server, wherein the application state is to be indexed with other application states from other devices.


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