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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 09, 2016
Filed:
Aug. 20, 2014
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
William G. Stewart, Los Altos, CA (US);
Andrew E. Rostaing, San Francisco, CA (US);
Anthony J. Guetta, San Carlos, CA (US);
Eric J. Johnson, San Jose, CA (US);
Gregory R. Chapman, San Jose, CA (US);
Deepak Iyer, Cupertino, CA (US);
Douglas Wyatt, Portola Valley, CA (US);
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
An operating system of a device receives, from an application executing on that device, data that identifies a category of hardware resources that the application needs to use in order to function. That category is mapped to a specified set of hardware resources of the device. The operating system also receives, from the application, data that identifies a mode. The mode corresponds to an intended use of a set of hardware resources and is mapped to a group of hardware resource settings that are consistent with the intended use. The operating system allocates, to the application, a particular set of hardware resources that are mapped to the category. The operating system configures one or more hardware resources in the particular set of hardware resources in conformity with a particular group of settings that are mapped to the mode.