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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 26, 2024
Filed:
Aug. 05, 2019
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Roberto Garcia, Mountain View, CA (US);
Eugene M. Bistolas, Mountain View, CA (US);
Justin Wood, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Lawrence Yuan Yang, San Francisco, CA (US);
Scott Lopatin, San Francisco, CA (US);
Richard R. Dellinger, San Jose, CA (US);
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
Techniques for live location sharing are described. A first mobile device and a second mobile device can communicate with one another using an IM program. The first mobile device can receive a user input to share a location of the first mobile device in the IM program. Sharing the location can include causing the second mobile device to display a location of the first mobile device in an IM program user interface on the second mobile device. Duration of sharing the location can be user-configurable. The second mobile device may or may not share a location of the second device for display in the IM program executing on the first mobile device.