公开(公告)号：US11662996B2

公开(公告)日：2023-05-30

申请号：US17660365

申请日：2022-04-22

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Christopher S. Linn ,  Eric S. Brown ,  Eric O. Carlson ,  Cindy M. Barrett ,  Jonathan M. Grynspan ,  Donald M. Firlik ,  Cameron S. Birse ,  Timothee Geoghegan

IPC: G06F8/65 ,  G06F8/61

CPC classification number: G06F8/65 ,  G06F8/62

Abstract: A technique for downgrading applications to placeholder applications in order to free up storage space in a user device. Based on a variety of heuristics, a number of installed applications are identified as candidates for a downgrade. The downgrading of the identified applications involves creating a placeholder application for each of the identified applications. The identified applications are temporarily deleted while keeping the user data associated with the identified applications intact and the placeholder applications are installed.

公开(公告)号：US11314498B2

公开(公告)日：2022-04-26

申请号：US16226259

申请日：2018-12-19

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Christopher S. Linn ,  Eric S. Brown ,  Eric O. Carlson ,  Cindy M. Barrett ,  Jonathan M. Grynspan ,  Donald M. Firlik ,  Cameron S. Birse ,  Timothee Geoghegan

IPC: G06F8/65 ,  G06F8/61

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a technique for downgrading applications to placeholder applications in order to free up storage space in a user device. Based on a variety of heuristics, a number of installed applications are identified as candidates for a downgrade. The downgrading of the identified applications involves creating a placeholder application for each of the identified applications. The identified applications are temporarily deleted while keeping the user data associated with the applications intact and the placeholder applications are installed.

公开(公告)号：US10852968B2

公开(公告)日：2020-12-01

申请号：US16137341

申请日：2018-09-20

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Kazuhisa Yanagihara ,  Benjamin P. Englert ,  Cameron S. Birse ,  Susan M. Grady

IPC: G06F3/06 ,  G06T1/60 ,  G06T1/00 ,  G06F12/02 ,  G06N20/00

Abstract: This application sets forth techniques for managing the allocation of memory storage space in a non-volatile memory to improve the operation of a camera application. A camera application monitors an amount of available memory storage space in the non-volatile memory. Responsive to various triggering events, the camera application compares the amount of available memory storage space to a threshold value. When the amount of available memory storage space is less than the threshold value, the camera application transmits a request to a background service to free additional memory storage space within a temporary data store associated with one or more applications installed on the computing device. The temporary data store provides a location for local data to improve the efficiency of the applications, which can be exploited by the camera application to free up memory to avoid a low-memory condition that could prevent the camera application from performing certain operations.

公开(公告)号：US10599353B2

公开(公告)日：2020-03-24

申请号：US15725175

申请日：2017-10-04

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Mark A. Pauley ,  Cameron S. Birse ,  Kazuhisa Yanagihara ,  Susan M. Grady ,  Timothy P. Hannon

IPC: G06F3/06 ,  G06F12/0891 ,  G06F12/126 ,  G06F11/34 ,  G06F12/02 ,  G06F12/0873

Abstract: This application sets forth techniques for managing the allocation of storage space within a storage device that is communicably coupled to a computing device. Requests are received from a plurality of applications executing on the computing device, in which each request specifies a respective amount of storage space to be reserved within the storage device. Detection is performed for the availability of a minimum amount of free space that corresponds to an optimal amount of space for executing at least one application of the plurality of applications. A respective priority ranking for each application is identified based on historical data gathered for the applications. Based on the priority rankings, a subset of requests from the plurality of requests is established. For each request of the subset, at least a portion of the respective amount of space specified by the request is reserved while maintaining the minimum amount of free space.

公开(公告)号：US10235152B2

公开(公告)日：2019-03-19

申请号：US14866816

申请日：2015-09-25

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Christopher S. Linn ,  Eric S. Brown ,  Eric O. Carlson ,  Cindy M. Barrett ,  Jonathan M. Grynspan ,  Donald M. Firlik ,  Cameron S. Birse ,  Timothee Geoghegan

IPC: G06F8/61 ,  G06F8/65

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a technique for downgrading applications to placeholder applications in order to free up storage space in a user device. Based on a variety of heuristics, a number of installed applications are identified as candidates for a downgrade. The downgrading of the identified applications involves creating a placeholder application for each of the identified applications. The identified applications are temporarily deleted while keeping the user data associated with the applications intact and the placeholder applications are installed.

公开(公告)号：US10230796B2

公开(公告)日：2019-03-12

申请号：US14500926

申请日：2014-09-29

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Paul William Chinn ,  Timothy P. Hannon ,  Cameron S. Birse ,  Ronnie G. Misra

IPC: H04L29/08

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a technique for managing disk space in user devices. A disk space manager is configured to manage the disk space by requesting clients running on the user device to free up disk space. The clients receive the requests and respond to the requests by deleting their own data to free up the requested disk space.