US 10,375,515 B2Granted

Location application program interface

AssigneeApple Inc.

InventorsBradley Joel Jensen, Ronald K. Huang, Stephen J. Rhee, Jay N. Bruins, Adam M. Driscoll, Lukas M. Marti, Michael P. Dal Santo, Patrick Thomas Dillon

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Abstract

Systems, methods, and program products for determining a location of a mobile device using a location application programming interface (API) are described. A mobile device can receive an input requesting the mobile device to monitor entry into and exit from a significant location. The mobile device can call a start-monitoring instance function of an object of a location manager class as declared in the API to start monitoring, and call a stop-monitoring instance function of the object as declared in the API to stop monitoring. The mobile device can store the entry and exit, or provide a record of the entry or exit to a function that is conformant to the API for performing various tasks.

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Dependent claims

A method comprising:

receiving an input by a mobile device, the input requesting the mobile device to monitor locations of the mobile device to determine length of time the mobile device has dwelled at a location;
responsive to the input, monitoring the locations through an application programming interface (API), the monitoring including calling a first instance function of an object of a location manager class, the first instance function being declared in the API and being operable to perform actions of recording detected visits of the mobile device at the locations, each detected visit being associated with a respective set of geographic coordinates of a location that the mobile device visited;
responsive to a trigger event, stopping the monitoring, wherein stopping the monitoring comprises calling a second instance function of the object, the second instance function being declared in the API and being operable to stop the object of the location manager class to record the visits;
and
providing the recorded visits to a location consumer system.

2 more elements

A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing instructions that, upon execution by a mobile device, cause the mobile device to perform operations comprising:

receiving an input, the input requesting the mobile device to monitor locations of the mobile device to determine length of time the mobile device has dwelled at a location;
responsive to the input, monitoring the locations through an application programming interface (API), the monitoring including calling a first instance function of an object of a location manager class, the first instance function being declared in the API and being operable to perform actions of recording detected visits of the mobile device at the locations, each detected visit being associated with a respective set of geographic coordinates of a location that the mobile device visited;
responsive to a trigger event, stopping the monitoring, wherein stopping the monitoring comprises calling a second instance function of the object, the second instance function being declared in the API and being operable to stop the object of the location manager class to record the visits;
and
providing the recorded visits to a location consumer system.

2 more elements

A mobile device, comprising:

one or more processors;
and
a nontransitory computer readable medium storing instructions that, upon execution by one or more computer processors, cause the one or more computer processors to perform operations comprising:
receiving an input, the input requesting the mobile device to monitor locations of the mobile device to determine length of time the mobile device has dwelled at a location;
responsive to the input, monitoring the locations through an application programming interface (API), the monitoring including calling a first instance function of an object of a location manager class, the first instance function being declared in the API and being operable to perform actions of recording detected visits of the mobile device at the locations, each detected visit being associated with a respective set of geographic coordinates of a location that the mobile device visited;
responsive to a trigger event, stopping the monitoring, wherein stopping the monitoring comprises calling a second instance function of the object, the second instance function being declared in the API and being operable to stop the object of the location manager class to record the visits;
and
providing the recorded visits to a location consumer system.

5 more elements

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 16/120,029Filed 31 Aug 2018 · continuation
Priority: 30 May 2014
Published: US 2018/0376283 A127 Dec 2018
Granted: 6 Aug 2019
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification16 codes

H04W 4/021
Services making use of location information: services related to particular areas, e.g. point of interest [POI] services, venue services or geofences
G06F 9/54
Multiprogramming arrangements: interprogram communication
G06Q 10/1093
Time management, e.g. calendars, reminders, meetings or time accounting: calendar-based scheduling for persons or groups
H04L 67/52
Network services: specially adapted for the location of the user terminal

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Application62/005,897Us provisional application · filed 30 May 2014
Application14/502,816Parent of this continuation · filed 30 Sep 2014
US 2018/0376283 A1Pre-grant publication · published 27 Dec 2018
US 2015/0350843 A1Published application
US 10,375,515 B2This patent

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