公开(公告)号：US10911555B2

公开(公告)日：2021-02-02

申请号：US16384610

申请日：2019-04-15

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Arvind S. Shenoy ,  Priyo Mustafi ,  Paul C. Irvine ,  Venkat Kranthi Chalasani ,  Thomas Alsina ,  Cody D. Jorgensen

IPC: H04L29/08

Abstract: Some implementations allow users to create and share data including playlists. Such playlists may be subscribed to by other users. Changes to such playlists, such as updates by the curator of the playlist, must be propagated to subscribers in a timely manner while efficiently utilizing resources. Some implementations allow updates to be propagated using a push notification to cause client devices to request the update (push). Alternatively, updates may be made when the client devices of the subscribers next accesses the system (pull). An aggregator system may be used to make decisions on which users to send push notifications, and which users to wait to pull updates on their own. Additionally, the aggregator may determine that certain playlist updates should be distributed using push notifications. The aggregator may determine that only certain playlist subscribers should receive push notifications regarding playlist updates.

公开(公告)号：US10318114B2

公开(公告)日：2019-06-11

申请号：US15271197

申请日：2016-09-20

Applicant: APPLE INC.

Inventor： Thomas Alsina ,  Edward T. Schmidt ,  Taylor G Carrigan ,  Christopher J. Sanders ,  Cody D. Jorgensen ,  Arvind S. Shenoy ,  Amandeep S Jawa ,  George D. Bottas ,  Matthew J. Cielak ,  Paul C. Irvine

IPC: G06F16/438 ,  G06F3/0482

Abstract: In some implementations, a computing device can be configured to manage playlist-only media items for a user's media library. For example, when a user adds a media item to a playlist, the user can be presented with an option to add the media item to the playlist as a playlist-only media item. When the user selects to add the media item to the playlist as a playlist-only media item, the computing device can update media metadata associated with the user's media library with data indicating that the media item is a playlist-only media item. When the computing device performs operations (e.g., displaying, searching, etc.) on the user's media library, the computing device can exclude the playlist-only media items from the operations. The computing device can change the playlist-only settings for a media item to add and/or remove a media item from the user's media library.

公开(公告)号：US20170359435A1

公开(公告)日：2017-12-14

申请号：US15273406

申请日：2016-09-22

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Thomas Alsina ,  Cody D. Jorgensen ,  Edward T. Schmidt ,  James H. Callender ,  Matthew J. Cielak ,  Taylor G. Carrigan

IPC: H04L29/08 ,  H04L12/861 ,  H04L29/06 ,  H04N21/231 ,  H04N21/433

CPC classification number: H04N21/4331 ,  H04N21/41407 ,  H04N21/4335 ,  H04N21/8113

Abstract: The present technology is for optimizing storage on a computing device. A media application on the computing device can allocate a minimum amount of storage on the computing device. The media application can further be configured to automatically download and store media items added to a media library of an account associated with the computing device. The combination of these features can put strain on computing devices with limited amounts of storage. Accordingly, the present technology can automatically delete media items in cache to allow media items to be automatically downloaded, or allow other uses of storage by other applications on the computing device, while also preserving the minimum amount of storage of media items on the computing device.