Patent ID: 11868611
Assignee: APPLE INC.
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  H | IPC G  H

Claim 7:
8. A system comprising:
one or more processors; and
a non-transitory computer-readable medium including one or more sequences of instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, causes:
responsive to determining that text input is to be entered: broadcasting, by a computing device, a state advertisement message, the state advertisement message indicating that the text input is to be entered;
subsequent to broadcasting the state advertisement message, establishing, by the computing device, a bidirectional communication channel with a user device;
receiving, by the computing device from the user device via the bidirectional communication channel, user input; and
providing, by the computing device to an application operating on the computing device, the text input based on the user input.