Quiet hours for notifications
    133.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US11582342B2

    公开(公告)日:2023-02-14

    申请号:US17454983

    申请日:2021-11-15

    Applicant: Apple Inc.

    Abstract: In some implementations, a computing device can be configured to automatically turn off notifications when generating a notification would cause a disturbance or be unwanted by a user. The device can be configured with quiet hours during which notifications that would otherwise be generated by the computing device can be suppressed. In some implementations, quiet hours can be configured as a time period with a start time and an end time. In some implementations, quiet hours can be derived from application data. For example, calendar data, alarm clock data, map data, etc. can be used to determine when quiet hours should be enforced. In some implementations, the device can be configured with exceptions to quiet hour notification suppression. In some implementations, the user can identify contacts to which the quiet hours notification suppression should not be applied.

    CONTEXT-AWARE VOICE GUIDANCE
    136.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20210152942A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-05-20

    申请号:US17160746

    申请日:2021-01-28

    Applicant: Apple Inc.

    Abstract: A context-aware voice guidance method is provided that interacts with other voice services of a user device. The voice guidance does not provide audible guidance while the user is making a verbal request to any of the voice-activated services. Instead, the voice guidance transcribes its output on the screen while the verbal requests from the user are received. In some embodiments, the voice guidance only provides a short warning sound to get the user's attention while the user is speaking on a phone call or another voice-activated service is providing audible response to the user's inquires. The voice guidance in some embodiments distinguishes between music that can be ducked and spoken words, for example from an audiobook, that the user wants to pause instead of being skipped. The voice guidance ducks music but pauses spoken words of an audio book in order to provide voice guidance to the user.

    Location based tracking
    139.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US10508921B2

    公开(公告)日:2019-12-17

    申请号:US15857050

    申请日:2017-12-28

    Applicant: Apple Inc.

    Abstract: Location information is used to build a database of locations having associated audio, video, image, or text data. In some implementations, a device includes a touch-sensitive display and collects data associated with a geographic location of interest. The geographic location of interest can be displayed on a map using an indicator. A touch selection of the indicator provides access to the data through an interface displayed on the touch-sensitive display. One or more locations of interest can be displayed and grouped together by an attribute.

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