US 12,073,705 B2
Separation alerts for notification while traveling
Benjamin A. Detwiler, Menlo Park, CA (US); Siva Ganesh Movva, Cupertino, CA (US); Katherine K. Ernst, San Francisco, CA (US); Richard Akira Heru, Mountain View, CA (US); Johan O. Bergerengen, San Francisco, CA (US); Langford M. Wasada, San Francisco, CA (US); and Ernst Thomas Erdmann, IV, San Francisco, CA (US)
Assigned to Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US)
Filed by Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US)
Filed on Nov. 12, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/525,779.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/197,317, filed on Jun. 4, 2021.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/185,926, filed on May 7, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0358830 A1, Nov. 10, 2022
Int. Cl. G08B 21/24 (2006.01); H04W 4/02 (2018.01); H04W 4/029 (2018.01); H04W 76/14 (2018.01); H04W 76/19 (2018.01)
CPC G08B 21/24 (2013.01) [H04W 4/023 (2013.01); H04W 4/029 (2018.02); H04W 76/19 (2018.02); H04W 76/14 (2018.02)] 24 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method performed by one or more processors of an electronic device to provide separation notifications, the method comprising:
detecting that the electronic device exits a trusted location;
in response to the detecting, receiving an indication that at least one accessory device is nearby the electronic device upon exit of the trusted location and storing information on a status of a wireless connection with the at least one accessory device;
receiving an indication that the electronic device is in transit;
monitoring the wireless connection for the at least one accessory device nearby the electronic device upon exit of the trusted location; and
upon detection of a lost wireless connection for the at least one accessory device, send a separation notification.