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Date of Patent:
Sep. 02, 2025

Filed:

Jul. 16, 2024
Applicant:

Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);

Inventors:

Daniel B. Pollack, Cupertino, CA (US);

Jingyao Zhang, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Jose A. Lozano Hinojosa, San Jose, CA (US);

Emad Omara, San Jose, CA (US);

Yilmaz Can Cecen, Seattle, WA (US);

Angus N. Burton, San Mateo, CA (US);

Blerim Cici, San Jose, CA (US);

Assignee:

Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 29/06 (2006.01); H04L 9/08 (2006.01); H04L 9/16 (2006.01); H04L 9/40 (2022.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 63/065 (2013.01); H04L 9/0861 (2013.01); H04L 9/16 (2013.01); H04L 63/0428 (2013.01);
Abstract

Aspects of the subject technology provide for shared experience sessions within a group communications session such as a video call. The shared experience session may be, as one example, a co-watching session in which the participants in the call watch a video together while in the call. Encrypted shared state data may be exchanged between the participant devices, with which the participant devices can provide synchronized and coordinated output of shared experience data for the shared experience session of the group communications session.


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