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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 06, 2018
Filed:
Sep. 22, 2016
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
David C. Donley, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Julien A. Poumailloux, San Francisco, CA (US);
Pierre J. De Filippis, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Tyler D. Hawkins, San Jose, CA (US);
Craig P. Dooley, Cupertino, CA (US);
Daniel B. Pollack, San Jose, CA (US);
James C. Grandy, Redwood City, CA (US);
Gregory B. Novick, San Francisco, CA (US);
Todd A. Shortlidge, San Francisco, CA (US);
Aroon Pahwa, Palo Alto, CA (US);
David T Wilson, Cupertino, CA (US);
Yan Yang, San Jose, CA (US);
Nicholas Joseph Circosta, Mountain View, CA (US);
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
Systems, methods and non-transitory computer readable media for allowing a user to switch between watches that have been paired with a device such as a smartphone are described. In one embodiment, the watches automatically detect a removal of a first watch from a user's wrist and an attachment of a second watch to the user's wrist. Messages from the watches are transmitted to the device to allow the device to switch the active watch from the first watch to the second watch. The switch can occur while the device is in a locked state, and the device can synchronize the second watch with data received from the first watch. Other embodiments are also described.