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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 26, 2020
Filed:
Feb. 08, 2019
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Stephen J. Rhee, San Jose, CA (US);
Adam M. Driscoll, Atherton, CA (US);
Jeffrey Michael Bartunek, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Ronald K. Huang, San Jose, CA (US);
Erik Neuenschwander, San Mateo, CA (US);
Patrick Coffman, San Francisco, CA (US);
Guy L. Tribble, Hillsborough, CA (US);
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
An application can specify a location service authorization type to be enforced by a mobile device. After the user authorizes the location service through an authorization dialog, the application can receive location service according to the authorization type. A first authorization type allows the application to receive continuous location updates and location events from a location service on the mobile device only when the application is in use. A second authorization type allows the application to always receive continuous location updates and location events when the application is running in a foreground or background. The text of the authorization dialog can be customized by the application to provide more detail on how the location data will be used by the application.