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Date of Patent:
Oct. 13, 2020

Filed:

Mar. 01, 2019
Applicant:

Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);

Inventors:

Thomas Alsina, Saratoga, CA (US);

Charles Magahern, San Francisco, CA (US);

Edward T. Schmidt, Burlingame, CA (US);

Gregory R. Chapman, San Jose, CA (US);

Ronald K. Huang, San Jose, CA (US);

Assignee:

Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 21/466 (2011.01); G06F 9/48 (2006.01); H04N 21/25 (2011.01); H04N 21/258 (2011.01); H04N 21/45 (2011.01); H04N 21/81 (2011.01); G11B 27/34 (2006.01); G11B 27/10 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 21/4668 (2013.01); G06F 9/48 (2013.01); G06F 9/4843 (2013.01); G11B 27/102 (2013.01); G11B 27/34 (2013.01); H04N 21/251 (2013.01); H04N 21/25891 (2013.01); H04N 21/4532 (2013.01); H04N 21/8113 (2013.01); H04N 21/8166 (2013.01);
Abstract

In some implementations, a computing device can send a priming command to a media application to cause the media application to load media items and media item metadata into memory associated with the media application. The computing device can predict a media application that is likely to be invoked by a user. The computing device can launch the media application. The computing device can send the priming command to the media application to cause the media application to prepare media items for playback or presentation to the user. After the media application loads the media items, the computing device can receive metadata associated with the loaded media items and present the metadata and appropriate media application controls on a display of the computing device.


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