Patent 9003299 was granted and assigned to Apple (company) on April, 2015 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
The preservation of the user interface state of first application on a first device allows, in one embodiment, a user to resume use of at least a portion of the user interface state on a second application on second devices. The first and second applications can be the same or different (with some common user interface UI features or elements and other UI features that are different).