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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 24, 2022
Filed:
Jun. 30, 2020
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
David C. Donley, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Julien A. Poumailloux, San Francisco, CA (US);
Pierre J. De Filippis, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Tyler D. Hawkins, San Jose, CA (US);
Craig P. Dooley, Cupertino, CA (US);
Daniel B. Pollack, San Jose, CA (US);
James C. Grandy, Redwood City, CA (US);
Gregory B. Novick, San Francisco, CA (US);
Todd A. Shortlidge, San Francisco, CA (US);
Aroon Pahwa, Palo Alto, CA (US);
David T. Wilson, Cupertino, CA (US);
Yan Yang, San Jose, CA (US);
Nicholas Joseph Circosta, Mountain View, CA (US);
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
Systems, methods and non-transitory computer readable media for allowing a user to switch between wearable items that have been paired or associated with an electronic device, such as a smartphone, are described. In one embodiment, the wearable items automatically detect a removal of a first wearable item from a user's body and an attachment of a second wearable item to the user's body. Messages from the wearable items are transmitted to the electronic device to allow the electronic device to switch the active wearable item from the first wearable item to the second wearable item. The switch can occur while the electronic device is in a locked state, and the electronic device can synchronize the second wearable item with data received from the first wearable item. Other embodiments are also described.