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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 16, 2025
Filed:
May. 06, 2022
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Devin O. Clary, San Francisco, CA (US);
Bartosz Ciechanowski, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Glen S. Low, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Karthik Sudhir, San Jose, CA (US);
Lance T. Parker, San Jose, CA (US);
Stephen M. Lottermoser, San Jose, CA (US);
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
The subject disclosure provides systems and methods for providing privacy-preserving social attribution for electronic devices. For example, when information is received from a contact of a user at the user's electronic device, various applications at the electronic device may later display the received information. It can be desirable to attribute the displayed information received from the contact to that contact, without exposing identifying information of the contact to the displaying application. Aspects of the subject technology include a system process that generates an image including contact information, that can be rendered in a user interface of an application, without providing the image or the contact information to the application.