US Patent Issued to Apple on Sept. 16 for "Automatic determination of application state in a multi-user environment" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,117, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Automatic determination of application state in a multi-user environment" was invented by Tucker B. Morgan (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Luis R. Deliz Centeno (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A state of a multi-user communication session is saved in response to detection of an application state saving event, or a session state saving event. During runtime, application state saving events may be detected for each application executing during a session. Application state parameters are saved in response to each application state saving event, from which...