Apple Inc.
GROUP IDENTIFICATION USING MACHINE LEARNING

Abstract:

The subject disclosure provides a machine learning engine trained to recommend, from contacts on a user's device, potential group members to be included in a group with the user. The potential group members can be identified in a privacy preserving manner in which the identification is performed locally at the user's device, using data that is locally stored at the user device. In one or more implementations, a remote server may provide an initial indication to the user's device that potential group members may exist, thereby triggering the local identification of the potential group members for suggestion to the user.