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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Oct. 03, 2017

Filed:

Jun. 02, 2009
Applicants:

Kevin Quennesson, San Francisco, CA (US);

Alessandro Sabatelli, San Francisco, CA (US);

Troy Koelling, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Michael Matas, San Francisco, CA (US);

Inventors:

Kevin Quennesson, San Francisco, CA (US);

Alessandro Sabatelli, San Francisco, CA (US);

Troy Koelling, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Michael Matas, San Francisco, CA (US);

Assignee:

Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 9/45 (2006.01); G06F 9/44 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 8/51 (2013.01); G06F 8/71 (2013.01);
Abstract

Systems, apparatuses, computer readable media, and methods for creating, exporting, sharing, and installing graphics functional blocks are described herein. In one embodiment, a selection is received from a graphical user interface (GUI) for one or more patches of multiple linked patches representing a graphics composition. In response to the selection, a dependency analysis is performed to determine one or more related patches that have a dependency relationship with the selected patches. Based on the dependency analysis, source code associated with the selected patches and the related patches is extracted without extracting source code of unselected and unrelated patches. Thereafter, the selected patches, the related patches, and the extracted source code are exported into a composition file to be shared with another user. Other methods and apparatuses are also described.


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