公开(公告)号：US20210194889A1

公开(公告)日：2021-06-24

申请号：US17192149

申请日：2021-03-04

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Stephen J. Rhee ,  Adam M. Driscoll ,  Jeffrey Michael Bartunek ,  Ronald K. Huang ,  Erik Neuenschwander ,  Patrick Coffman ,  Guy L. Tribble

IPC: H04L29/06 ,  H04W4/029 ,  H04W12/08 ,  H04M1/72403 ,  H04M1/72457 ,  H04W4/02

Abstract: An application can specify a location service authorization type to be enforced by a mobile device. After the user authorizes the location service through an authorization dialog, the application can receive location service according to the authorization type. A first authorization type allows the application to receive continuous location updates and location events from a location service on the mobile device only when the application is in use. A second authorization type allows the application to always receive continuous location updates and location events when the application is running in a foreground or background. A status indicator can be displayed to indicate the authorization associated with a received location service.

公开(公告)号：US10965687B2

公开(公告)日：2021-03-30

申请号：US16435218

申请日：2019-06-07

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Stephen J. Rhee ,  Adam M. Driscoll ,  Jeffrey Michael Bartunek ,  Ronald K. Huang ,  Erik Neuenschwander ,  Patrick Coffman ,  Guy L. Tribble

IPC: H04W4/02 ,  H04L29/06 ,  H04W4/029 ,  H04W12/08 ,  H04M1/725

Abstract: An application can specify a location service authorization type to be enforced by a mobile device. After the user authorizes the location service through an authorization dialog, the application can receive location service according to the authorization type. A first authorization type allows the application to receive continuous location updates and location events from a location service on the mobile device only when the application is in use. A second authorization type allows the application to always receive continuous location updates and location events when the application is running in a foreground or background. The text of the authorization dialog can be customized by the application to provide more detail on how the location data will be used by the application.

公开(公告)号：US20210084437A1

公开(公告)日：2021-03-18

申请号：US17031634

申请日：2020-09-24

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Michael P. Dal Santo ,  Lukas M. Marti ,  Ronald K. Huang ,  Lili Cao

IPC: H04W4/021 ,  H04W4/029 ,  H04W4/024 ,  G06F9/54 ,  G06Q10/10 ,  H04L29/08 ,  H04M1/725 ,  H04W4/02 ,  H04W4/30

Abstract: Systems, methods, and program products for providing services to a user by a mobile device based on the user's daily routine of movement. The mobile device determines whether a location cluster indicates a significant location for the user based on one or more hints that indicate an interest of the user in locations in the cluster. The mobile device can perform adaptive clustering to determine a size of area of the significant location based on how multiple locations converge in the location cluster. The mobile device can provide location-based services for calendar items, including predicting a time of arrival at an estimated location of a calendar item. The mobile device can provide various services related to a location of the mobile device or a significant location of the user through an application programming interface (API).

公开(公告)号：US10362162B2

公开(公告)日：2019-07-23

申请号：US16040932

申请日：2018-07-20

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Stephen P. Jackson ,  Anil K. Kandangath ,  Ronald K. Huang

IPC: H04M3/00 ,  H04M1/725 ,  H04W68/02 ,  H04M19/04 ,  H04W8/24

Abstract: Measurements can be obtained from sensors to determine a state of a device. The state can be used to determine whether to provide an alert. For example, after a first alert is provided, it can be determined that the device is not accessible to the user based on the determined state, and a second alert can be suppressed at a specified time after providing the first alert. The sensor measurements can be monitored after suppressing the second alert, and a state engine can detect a change in a state based on subsequent sensor measurements. If the state change indicates that the device is accessible to the user the second alert can be provided to the user. Alerts can be dismissed based on a change in state. A first device can coordinate alerts sent to or to be provided by a second device by suppressing or dismissing such alerts.

公开(公告)号：US10264319B2

公开(公告)日：2019-04-16

申请号：US15153707

申请日：2016-05-12

Applicant: APPLE INC.

Inventor： Charles Magahern ,  Edward T. Schmidt ,  Gregory R. Chapman ,  Ronald K. Huang ,  Thomas Alsina

IPC: H04N21/466 ,  G06F9/48 ,  G11B27/34 ,  H04N21/25 ,  H04N21/45 ,  H04N21/81 ,  H04N21/258

Abstract: In some implementations, a computing device can send a priming command to a media application to cause the media application to load media items and media item metadata into memory associated with the media application. The computing device can predict a media application that is likely to be invoked by a user. The computing device can launch the media application. The computing device can send the priming command to the media application to cause the media application to prepare media items for playback or presentation to the user. After the media application loads the media items, the computing device can receive metadata associated with the loaded media items and present the metadata and appropriate media application controls on a display of the computing device.

公开(公告)号：US20190007547A1

公开(公告)日：2019-01-03

申请号：US16040932

申请日：2018-07-20

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Stephen P. Jackson ,  Anil K. Kandangath ,  Ronald K. Huang

IPC: H04M1/725 ,  H04M19/04

CPC classification number: H04M1/72569 ,  H04M1/72519 ,  H04M1/72522 ,  H04M19/04 ,  H04W8/245 ,  H04W68/02

Abstract: Measurements can be obtained from sensors to determine a state of a device. The state can be used to determine whether to provide an alert. For example, after a first alert is provided, it can be determined that the device is not accessible to the user based on the determined state, and a second alert can be suppressed at a specified time after providing the first alert. The sensor measurements can be monitored after suppressing the second alert, and a state engine can detect a change in a state based on subsequent sensor measurements. If the state change indicates that the device is accessible to the user the second alert can be provided to the user. Alerts can be dismissed based on a change in state. A first device can coordinate alerts sent to or to be provided by a second device by suppressing or dismissing such alerts.

公开(公告)号：US20180376286A1

公开(公告)日：2018-12-27

申请号：US16120113

申请日：2018-08-31

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Michael P. Dal Santo ,  Stephen J. Rhee ,  Ronald K. Huang ,  Nicholas M. Holt

IPC: H04W4/02 ,  H04W64/00 ,  H04L29/08

CPC classification number: H04W4/025 ,  G01S5/00 ,  G01S5/0252 ,  H04L67/02 ,  H04L67/20 ,  H04W24/10 ,  H04W64/006

Abstract: This disclosure describes embodiments for harvesting and serving labels for locations. In an embodiment, a method comprises: receiving, by one or more server computers, location data including wireless access point data and location labels associated with significant locations, the location data being harvested from a plurality of devices operating at a plurality of geographic locations; and updating, by the one or more server computers, a plurality of fingerprints representing the plurality of geographic locations, the updating including associating at least one of the received location labels with at least one of the plurality of fingerprints.

公开(公告)号：US10165399B2

公开(公告)日：2018-12-25

申请号：US15456408

申请日：2017-03-10

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Ronald K. Huang ,  Morgan Grainger ,  Robert W. Mayor

IPC: H04W4/021 ,  G01S5/02 ,  H04M1/725 ,  H04W52/02 ,  H04W4/02 ,  H04W4/50

Abstract: Methods, program products, and systems for baseband location monitoring and related functions are disclosed. A mobile device can monitor its own current location using its baseband subsystem and decide whether to selectively activate its application subsystem based on whether particular conditions are satisfied by the current location. The mobile device can also correlate location and cellular signal information using its baseband subsystem and provide the correlated location and cellular signal information to a server. The server can receive the correlated location and cellular signal information from the baseband subsystems of a large number of widely distributed mobile devices and generate respective profiles of cellular network base stations that transmitted the cellular signals to the mobile devices. The profiles of the cellular network base stations can be used by the server in fulfilling subsequent positioning requests from mobile devices that do not currently have the baseband location monitoring enabled.

公开(公告)号：US10154789B2

公开(公告)日：2018-12-18

申请号：US14502827

申请日：2014-09-30

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Karthik Jayaraman Raghuram ,  Hung A. Pham ,  Richard Channing Moore, III ,  Alexander Singh Alvarado ,  Umamahesh Srinivas ,  Xing Tan ,  Dan Marvin Trietsch ,  Gunes Dervisoglu ,  Craig H. Mermel ,  Ronald K. Huang ,  Adeeti Ullal

IPC: A61B5/00 ,  A61B5/0205 ,  A61B5/11 ,  A61B5/024 ,  A61B5/22 ,  A63B22/06 ,  G01C22/00

Abstract: In one aspect, the present disclosure relates to a method including obtaining, by a heart rate sensor of a fitness tracking device, a heart rate measurement of a user of the fitness tracking device; obtaining, by at least one motion sensor, motion data of the user; analyzing, by the fitness tracking device, the motion data of the user to estimate a step rate of the user; estimating, by the fitness tracking device, a load associated with a physical activity of the user by comparing the heart rate measurement with the step rate of the user; and estimating, by the fitness tracking device, an energy expenditure rate of the user using the load and at least one of the heart rate measurement and the step rate.

公开(公告)号：US20170272904A1

公开(公告)日：2017-09-21

申请号：US15449817

申请日：2017-03-03

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Matthew E. Shepherd ,  Ronald K. Huang ,  Stephen J. Rhee ,  Daniel T. Kurtz ,  Erik Neuenschwander

IPC: H04W4/02

CPC classification number: H04W4/021 ,  H04W4/02 ,  H04W64/00 ,  H04W88/02 ,  H04W92/08

Abstract: An application manager of a mobile device can provide a user with the ability to control whether an application can use location information provided by a location subsystem of the mobile device. The application can request to be notified by the location subsystem when the mobile device crosses a geofence. When the mobile device crosses the geofence, the location subsystem provides a notice to the application. The application manager can intercept the notice to the application, and present an alert on a user interface. The application manager can then provide the notice to the application only upon receiving an input through the user interface confirming that the application still has permission to use location information.