Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Electronic devices with intuitive sharing capabilities
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Application No.: US17505530Application Date: 2021-10-19
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Publication No.: US12171043B2Publication Date: 2024-12-17
- Inventor: Adam S. Meyer , Peter C. Tsoi , Stuart J. Wood , Duncan Robert Kerr , Martha Evans Hankey , John B. Morrell
- Applicant: Apple Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA Cupertino
- Assignee: Apple Inc.
- Current Assignee: Apple Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Cupertino
- Agency: Treyz Law Group, P.C.
- Agent Kendall P. Woodruff
- Main IPC: H04W8/00
- IPC: H04W8/00 ; G06F3/0346 ; G06F3/04817 ; G06F3/04883 ; H04M1/724 ; H04W4/02 ; H04W4/21 ; H04W4/80 ; H04W76/14

Abstract:
An electronic device may use information about the location of nearby devices to make sharing with those devices more intuitive for a user. When two devices are pointed towards one another, each device may automatically present the option to share information with the other device. When a user wishes to share information with one or more devices in a group of users, an array of icons representing the nearby users may be positioned on the display according to the locations of the nearby users so that the sharing user can easily select which user he or she wishes to share with. A sharing user may broadcast a signal and nearby users may elect to receive the signal by pointing their devices towards the sharing user. A user of two devices may share information between the two devices and may use one device to manipulate the information on the other device.
Public/Granted literature
- US20220038883A1 Electronic Devices with Intuitive Sharing Capabilities Public/Granted day:2022-02-03
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