Apple has filed for a patent for a “Multi-Device Context Store” with the goal of making it easier to share your personal data among all your Apple devices.
About the patent filing
The patent filing generally relates to determining user context and scheduling tasks based on user context. In the filing, Apple notes that many modern computing devices collect information about user activities in order to predict or anticipate the user’s behaviors and/or computing needs.
Most of these devices attempt to predict or anticipate a user’s behavior based on the data collected by a single device. However, most users have multiple devices. This means the data collected by a single device often provides an incomplete picture of the user’s behavior and/or computing needs. Apple wants to overcome this limitation.
Summary of the patent filing
Here’s Apple’s abstract of the patent filing: “In some implementations, a user device can maintain a multi-device context store. For example, the user device can receive device and/or user context information from multiple devices and store the context information in a local data store. The user device can collect local device and/or user context information and store the context information in the local context store. The user device can receive user/device context queries from client processes and send the client processes user/device context information from multiple devices in response to the queries.”
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