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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 23, 2012
Filed:
Jun. 09, 2007
Pavel Cisler, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Yan Arrouye, Mountain View, CA (US);
John Iarocci, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Marc Jason Krochmal, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Christopher Brooke Sharp, San Jose, CA (US);
Christopher Scott Linn, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Mikhail Gonodanov, San Jose, CA (US);
Simon P. Cooper, Cupertino, CA (US);
Richard Murphy, Boulder Creek, CA (US);
Pavel Cisler, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Yan Arrouye, Mountain View, CA (US);
John Iarocci, Los Gatos, CA (US);
Marc Jason Krochmal, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Christopher Brooke Sharp, San Jose, CA (US);
Christopher Scott Linn, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Mikhail Gonodanov, San Jose, CA (US);
Simon P. Cooper, Cupertino, CA (US);
Richard Murphy, Boulder Creek, CA (US);
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
This disclosure relates to methods and systems to allow, in one embodiment, automatic access from one system to other systems which include an operating system that includes a user login process. In one embodiment, a method includes logging into, automatically in response to starting a first data processing system, a second data processing system at least as a guest user of the second data processing system which has a storage volume storing data and displaying a user interface object on a display device of the first data processing system, the user interface object corresponding to at least one of the second data processing system and the storage volume to allow at least one of a search to be performed or a browsing to be performed of the data stored on the storage volume.