Apple has filed for a patent (quantity US 20230259276 A1) for “machine group membership for units.” It includes the power to extra simply assemble your varied Apple units into “dynamic teams.”
Within the patent submitting, Apple notes {that a} consumer that owns a number of units (Macs, iPhones, iPads, and so forth.) with overlapping performance is changing into more and more widespread. Smartphones, tablets, and computer systems all entry the net, enable a consumer to course of pictures, and so forth., and customers are inclined to have a number of such units.
This implies a consumer eager to share information between their units and have entry to information on a number of units is more and more widespread as properly. Customers might generally use all types of various strategies to switch information between units, equivalent to flash reminiscence sticks, e-mail, and so forth.
Nonetheless, extra environment friendly strategies for routinely sharing information between a consumer’s units are desired. Apple thinks that one resolution is “dynamic teams.” This includes a technique for a primary machine that identifies definitions of various teams of units, every of which is outlined by a set of properties required for a tool to be a member.
The tactic displays properties of the primary machine to find out when the machine is eligible for membership in a gaggle. When the primary machine is eligible for membership in a primary group of which the machine isn’t a member, the strategy sends an utility for membership within the first group signed with at the very least a non-public key of the machine to at the very least one different machine that may be a member of the primary group.
When the primary machine turns into ineligible for membership in a second group of which the primary machine is a member, the strategy removes the machine from the second group and notifies different units which might be members of the second group.”
