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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 20, 2022
Filed:
Sep. 23, 2016
Applicant:
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Inventors:
Steve S. Ko, San Francisco, CA (US);
Jean-Pierre Ciudad, San Francisco, CA (US);
Kazuhisa Yanagihara, Cupertino, CA (US);
Assignee:
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/06 (2006.01); G06F 12/02 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/0608 (2013.01); G06F 3/0605 (2013.01); G06F 3/067 (2013.01); G06F 3/0641 (2013.01); G06F 3/0649 (2013.01); G06F 3/0652 (2013.01); G06F 12/023 (2013.01);
Abstract
Disclosed herein is a technique for managing storage space in a user device. Users are provided with options to manage storage space usage in an organized and efficient manner. The options can include recommendations to the user regarding automatically and/or manually purging data from the user device to free up a particular amount of storage space that is needed to carry out a particular task.