公开(公告)号：US20190187974A1

公开(公告)日：2019-06-20

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

CPC classification number: G06F8/65 ,  G06F8/62

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：US20220244941A1

公开(公告)日：2022-08-04

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

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：US20180089206A1

公开(公告)日：2018-03-29

申请号：US15275099

申请日：2016-09-23

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Eric B. TAMURA ,  Eric S. BROWN

IPC: G06F17/30

Abstract: The described embodiments set forth techniques for performing live updates to file system volumes (e.g., operating system (OS) file system volumes) of computing devices through the utilization of snapshots. In particular, the techniques enable a computing device to remain active while a majority of an update process is performed, which eliminates the considerable functional downtime that is normally imposed when implementing conventional update techniques. Moreover, the overall robustness of the update process is enhanced as the techniques described herein reduce the amount of time that is required for the computing device to remain in the above-described specialized update mode.

公开(公告)号：US20160357545A1

公开(公告)日：2016-12-08

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: G06F9/445

CPC classification number: G06F8/65 ,  G06F8/62

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.

Abstract translation: 这里公开了一种用于将应用降级到占位符应用以便释放用户设备中的存储空间的技术。 基于各种启发式，许多安装的应用程序被确定为降级的候选者。 识别的应用程序的降级涉及为每个已识别的应用程序创建占位符应用程序。 识别的应用程序将被暂时删除，同时保持与应用程序关联的用户数据不变，并安装占位符应用程序。