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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 27, 2019
Filed:
Feb. 29, 2016
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
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);
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
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.