Patent 10394839 was granted and assigned to Apple (company) on August, 2019 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A method and apparatus of a device that selects an application state for use in a multi-device search is described. In this embodiment, the device detects, on the device, that the application state has been selected as a query result for a device-level search on that device. The device further transmits the application state to a server, wherein the application state is to be indexed with other application states from other devices.