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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 27, 2014
Filed:
May. 25, 2012
Glenn Donald Macgougan, San Jose, CA (US);
Jay N. Bruins, Los Altos, CA (US);
Robert Mayor, Half Moon Bay, CA (US);
Ronald Keryuan Huang, San Jose, CA (US);
Stephen J. Rhee, San Jose, CA (US);
Jay L. Prunty, Pleasanton, CA (US);
Pejman Lotfali Kazemi, San Francisco, CA (US);
Glenn Donald MacGougan, San Jose, CA (US);
Jay N. Bruins, Los Altos, CA (US);
Robert Mayor, Half Moon Bay, CA (US);
Ronald Keryuan Huang, San Jose, CA (US);
Stephen J. Rhee, San Jose, CA (US);
Jay L. Prunty, Pleasanton, CA (US);
Pejman Lotfali Kazemi, San Francisco, CA (US);
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
Among other things, we describe a method that includes receiving, on a mobile device, an indication that an application executing on the mobile device has entered a background state, receiving, from the application, a value indicating a condition for providing location data to the application, disabling a resource associated with the application, while the resource associated with the application is disabled, storing location data received from a location system of the mobile device, and when the condition indicated by the value is met, enabling the resource associated with the application, and providing the stored location data to the application.