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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 12, 2026
Filed:
Apr. 11, 2023
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Michael P. Dal Santo, San Francisco, CA (US);
Christine Zhu, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Adam M. Driscoll, Atherton, CA (US);
Brandon J. Van Ryswyk, Los Altos, CA (US);
Richard B. Warren, Redwood City, CA (US);
Jared K. Mcgann, San Jose, CA (US);
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
Methods, non-transitory machine-readable mediums, and system to provide historical positioning information are described. In an embodiment, a device detects one or more conditions in user contextual data that trigger collection of a set of historical positions for a lookback window, the device receives at least one historical position from the set of historical positions for the lookback window, the device classifies the at least one historical position based on one or more features as a candidate location for a backtrack route, and the device determines to provide the at least one historical position as part of the lookback window based on the classification.