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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 06, 2024
Filed:
Mar. 21, 2022
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Christopher John Sanders, San Jose, CA (US);
Timothy B. Martin, Morgan Hill, CA (US);
Imran Chaudhri, San Francisco, CA (US);
Lucas C. Newman, San Francisco, CA (US);
Sean Boland Kelly, San Francisco, CA (US);
Thomas M. Alsina, Mountain View, CA (US);
Jeffrey L Robbin, Los Altos, CA (US);
Andrew M. Wadycki, San Mateo, CA (US);
Patrice O. Gautier, San Francisco, CA (US);
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
A method at a client device includes displaying media library information corresponding to a set of media items. The media items include one or more local media items, the one or more local media items including media items stored at the client device, and one or more remote media items, the one or more remote media items including media items stored at a remote system and not at the client device. The method also includes displaying, concurrently with displaying the media library information, affordances identifying the remote media items; detecting user interaction with an affordance identifying a respective remote media item; and in response to detecting the user interaction, initiating a process for downloading a copy of the respective remote media item to the client device for storage at the client device.