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Date of Patent:
Oct. 05, 2021

Filed:

Apr. 27, 2020
Applicant:

Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);

Inventors:

Stephen F. Holt, San Francisco, CA (US);

Gordon J. Freedman, San Jose, CA (US);

Shubham Kedia, Cupertino, CA (US);

Stephen C. Moseley, San Jose, CA (US);

Cindy M. Barrett, Menlo Park, CA (US);

Patrick Coffman, San Francisco, CA (US);

Assignee:

Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/451 (2018.01); G06F 21/32 (2013.01); G06F 9/48 (2006.01); G06F 9/54 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/451 (2018.02); G06F 9/485 (2013.01); G06F 9/542 (2013.01); G06F 21/32 (2013.01);
Abstract

Methods and systems are disclosed that create user interface (UI) instances for corresponding input/output resources, such as display resources, and each of these UI instances have separate lifecycle states or information maintained by the respective UI instances. System processes for the display resources (e.g. different displays or different windows for the same display devices) can control access to their respective display resource and can report changes in the lifecycle states to their respective UI interface.


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