US 11,893,052 B2
Management of local and remote media items
Christopher John Sanders, San Jose, CA (US); Timothy B. Martin, Morgan Hill, CA (US); Imran Chaudhri, San Francisco, CA (US); Lucas C. Newman, San Francisco, CA (US); Sean Boland Kelly, San Francisco, CA (US); Thomas M. Alsina, Mountain View, CA (US); Jeffrey L Robbin, Los Altos, CA (US); Andrew M. Wadycki, San Mateo, CA (US); and Patrice O. Gautier, San Francisco, CA (US)
Assigned to Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US)
Filed by Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US)
Filed on Mar. 21, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/699,492.
Application 17/699,492 is a continuation of application No. 16/921,551, filed on Jul. 6, 2020, granted, now 11,281,711.
Application 16/921,551 is a continuation of application No. 13/587,850, filed on Aug. 16, 2012, granted, now 10,706,096, issued on Jul. 7, 2020.
Claims priority of provisional application 61/525,161, filed on Aug. 18, 2011.
Prior Publication US 2022/0277037 A1, Sep. 1, 2022
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. G06F 16/438 (2019.01)
CPC G06F 16/4387 (2019.01) 30 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An electronic device in communication with a display, the electronic device comprising:
one or more processors; and
memory storing one or more programs configured to be executed by the one or more processors, the one or more programs including instructions for:
while the electronic device has a connection to a remote system:
displaying digital library information corresponding to a set of digital items, the digital items comprising one or more local digital items stored at the electronic device, and one or more remote digital items stored at the remote system and not at the electronic device;
detecting a user input; and
in response to detecting the user input, initiating a process for downloading a copy of a respective remote digital item to the electronic device for storage at the electronic device, wherein initiating the process for downloading a copy of the respective remote digital item to the electronic device includes:
in accordance with a determination that a first set of one or more conditions are met, downloading a lower-quality copy of the respective remote digital item to the electronic device; and
in accordance with a determination that the first set of one or more conditions are not met, forgoing downloading the lower-quality copy of the respective remote digital item to the electronic device.