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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 14, 2026
Filed:
Sep. 30, 2023
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
James B. Cary, Mountain View, CA (US);
Forest A. Hill, Lafayette, CO (US);
Eugene Dvortsov, San Francisco, CA (US);
Michael J. Lamb, San Jose, CA (US);
John B. Rowe, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
The embodiments set forth techniques for managing activity information associated with user applications. According to some embodiments, the techniques can include a method that is implemented by an activity application executing on a computing device, and includes the steps of (1) receiving, from an activity manager executing on the computing device, an indication that a particular functionality is being implemented by a user application executing on the computing device, (2) querying the activity manager for activity information associated with the particular functionality, (3) compositing the activity information into a user interface that is managed by the activity application, and (4) causing the user interface to be output to a display device that is communicatively coupled to the computing device.