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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Aug. 16, 2022

Filed:

Sep. 25, 2019
Applicant:

Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);

Inventors:

Raymond S. Sepulveda, Campbell, CA (US);

Chun Kin Minor Wong, San Jose, CA (US);

John O. Louch, Boulder, CO (US);

Christopher N. Ryan, Windham, NH (US);

Kevin J. Van Vechten, Montecito, CA (US);

Patrick L. Coffman, San Francisco, CA (US);

Assignee:

APPLE INC., Cupertino, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/147 (2006.01); G06F 3/0482 (2013.01); G06F 3/04847 (2022.01); G06F 3/04883 (2022.01); G06F 3/04817 (2022.01); G06F 3/04845 (2022.01); G06F 3/041 (2006.01); G06F 3/0486 (2013.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/147 (2013.01); G06F 3/0416 (2013.01); G06F 3/0482 (2013.01); G06F 3/0486 (2013.01); G06F 3/04817 (2013.01); G06F 3/04845 (2013.01); G06F 3/04847 (2013.01); G06F 3/04883 (2013.01); G06F 2203/04803 (2013.01); G06F 2203/04808 (2013.01);
Abstract

Disclosed herein are systems and methods that allow activation of, and intuitive interactions with, a companion-display mode for an electronic device. An example method includes: receiving an instruction to operate the first electronic device in a companion-display mode in which user interfaces generated by a second electronic device are displayed at the first electronic device. In response to receiving the instruction to operate in the companion-display mode, the method also includes: concurrently displaying, on the touch-sensitive display of the first electronic device: a user interface generated by the second electronic device; and a plurality of user interface objects, including a first user interface object associated with a first function of a plurality of functions for controlling the touch-sensitive display of the first electronic device while it is operating in the companion-display mode, and a second user interface object associated with a second function of the plurality of functions.


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