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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 08, 2019
Filed:
Jan. 22, 2016
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Glenn Donald MacGougan, San Jose, CA (US);
Jay N. Bruins, Los Altos, CA (US);
Robert Mayor, Half Moon Bay, CA (US);
Ronald Keryuan Huang, San Jose, CA (US);
Stephen J. Rhee, San Jose, CA (US);
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
In general, in one aspect, a method includes receiving, on a mobile device, an indication that an application executing on the mobile device has entered a background state, determining, based on data received from a location system of the mobile device, that the mobile device has remained within a geographic area during a time interval, the geographic area being defined by a radius determined according to an application type of the application, and disabling at least a portion of the location system of the mobile device.