Patents Assigned to Apple, Inc.
  • Publication number: 20250151128
    Abstract: A method and device are disclosed for performing collision resolution in a two-step random access channel (RACH) process. In such a process, an MsgA PUSCH signal and a grant based PUSCH signal may collide. When such a collision is detected, either the MsgA PUSCH signal or the grant based PUSCh signal are dropped. The other of the two signals is then transmitted. The determination regarding which signal to drop can be based on a set of rules stored in memory.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2025
    Publication date: May 8, 2025
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Gang XIONG, Yujian ZHANG, Yushu ZHANG, Sergey SOSNIN, Seau S. LIM
  • Publication number: 20250150300
    Abstract: A first status signal can be received by a controller device from a first user proxy device. The first status signal can indicate whether the first user proxy device is within a threshold distance from a location. The location can be associated with a state and one or more devices. Settings on the one or more devices can be based on the state. The state can be determined from a hierarchy of potential states. Determining the state from a hierarchy of potential states can be based on satisfying a criteria of a parent state of the hierarchy. Determining the state can be further based on satisfying a second criteria of a child state of the parent state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2024
    Publication date: May 8, 2025
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jeffery T. Lee, Toshiro Yamada, Kuldeep R. Modi
  • Publication number: 20250150165
    Abstract: Approaches are described to enhance radio link monitoring and link recovery for the integration of non-terrestrial networks (e.g., satellites) into next generation wireless communication networks. Certain approaches describe the modification of block error rate threshold requirements based on the particulars of the satellites involved, and the procedure for making those modifications. Other approaches describe the modification of the evaluation period based on the particulars of the satellites involved, and the procedure for making those modifications. In making these modifications, user-equipment (UE)-specific margins are also considered. In addition, modifications to the procedure for higher priority cell search are also described when non-terrestrial wireless communication networks are involved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 11, 2022
    Publication date: May 8, 2025
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jie CUI, Qiming LI, Xiang CHEN, Yang TANG, Hong HE, Haitong SUN, Manasa RAGHAVAN, Dawei ZHANG, Qunfeng HE, Chunxuan YE
  • Publication number: 20250148932
    Abstract: A user input may be received at a user device to begin a breathing sequence. First heart rate information may be presented on a display of the user device during a first phase of the breathing sequence. A fluctuating user interface element may fluctuate on the display of the user device during a second phase of the breathing sequence. Second heart rate information may be presented on the display of the user device during a first phase of the breathing sequence.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2025
    Publication date: May 8, 2025
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jay Kriz Blahnik, Erno H. Klaassen, Julie A. Arney, Alan C. Dye, Gary I. Butcher, Kevin M. Lynch, Nader E. Bagherzadeh, Gracee Agrawal, Stephen J. Waydo, Christopher J. Brouse
  • Publication number: 20250150926
    Abstract: Mechanisms are provided for a user equipment (UE) to perform a handover operation from a first base station in a serving cell to a second base station in a target cell under conditions. The UE can receive a conditional handover instruction including a channel quality condition for the handover operation and an additional condition for the handover operation. The UE may determine an operation order between testing the channel quality condition and testing the additional condition, and further determine whether the channel quality condition or the additional condition is met or not. In response to a determination that the channel quality condition is met and a determination that the additional condition is met, the UE can perform the handover operation to handover the UE from the first base station to the second base station.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2022
    Publication date: May 8, 2025
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jie CUI, Qiming LI, Yang TANG, Dawei ZHANG
  • Publication number: 20250147767
    Abstract: A system may include multiple processors. One of the processors may receive an indication of a data synchronization barrier (DSB) instruction in another processor that follows a translation look-ahead buffer invalidate (TLBI) instruction to invalidate an entry of a translation look-ahead buffer. The processor may determine whether instructions are pending in the processor for which the virtual addresses used for memory accesses have been translated to physical addresses before receiving the DSB indication. If there are such pending instructions, the processor may provide, after these instructions retire, an indication to the other processor as a response to the DSB indication.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 3, 2025
    Publication date: May 8, 2025
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Madhu Sudan Hari, Mridul Agarwal, Kulin N. Kothari, John D. Pape, Niket K. Choudhary
  • Patent number: 12294455
    Abstract: A base station is configured to receive channel state information (CSI) from a user equipment (UE). The base station transmits configuration information including one or more interference measurement resources (IMRs) allocated for measurement by the UE, receives a reference CSI report from the UE, receives a new CSI report including interference and noise power fluctuation feedback from the UE and selects a modulation and coding scheme (MCS) for the UE based on at least the interference and noise power fluctuation feedback and the reference CSI report.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Weidong Yang, Chunhai Yao, Chunxuan Ye, Dawei Zhang, Haitong Sun, Hong He, Huaning Niu, Jie Cui, Manasa Raghavan, Oghenekome Oteri, Seyed Ali Akbar Fakoorian, Sigen Ye, Wei Zeng, Yang Tang, Yushu Zhang
  • Patent number: 12294864
    Abstract: The described embodiments set forth techniques for management of electronic subscriber identity module (eSIM) profiles for a wireless device, including in-field replacement of provisioning (bootstrap) eSIM profiles. Public key infrastructure (PKI) information for an original equipment manufacturer (OEM) profile management server is installed in an embedded universal integrated circuit card (eUICC) of a wireless device at a time of manufacture and used subsequently by the wireless device to conduct an eSIM profile management session and verify authorization of the OEM profile management server to manage, e.g., update and/or replace, one or more eSIM profiles on the eUICC of the wireless device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Li Li, Aurelien P. Raboisson, Avinash Narasimhan, George Lin, Keizo Marui
  • Patent number: 12295204
    Abstract: The circular polarizer may be omitted from a display to increase efficiency. A polarizer-free display may use other non-polarizer techniques to mitigate reflections of ambient light and mitigate diffraction reflection artifacts. The polarizer-free display may include a black pixel definition layer that absorbs ambient light. Color filter elements may be included in a black matrix to mitigate ambient light reflections. An intra-anode phase shift layer and/or an inter-anode phase shift layer may be included in the display to mitigate diffractive reflection artifacts. Multiple sub-pixels of the same color may be used in a single pixel to ensure a neutral reflection color. The display may include a cathode layer that is patterned to have openings over the black pixel definition layer to mitigate reflections. The display may include diffusive particles (in the color filter element or in a separate diffuser layer) to mitigate diffractive reflection artifacts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Young Cheol Yang, Bhadrinarayana Lalgudi Visweswaran, Michelle C Sherrott, Fuyi Yang
  • Patent number: 12292783
    Abstract: A processor can include various processing pipelines that perform different data processing operations, with different pipelines having dedicated logic and memory circuits. A power management circuit can determine when to supply power to various pipelines, including the logic and memory circuits of the various pipelines, depending on a current operating mode of the processor. When a memory circuit transitions to a lower power state such as a sleep state, data can be saved to a different memory circuit that is not transitioning to a lower power state, and when the memory circuit is powered up again, the data can be restored from the different memory circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2024
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Ping Zhou, Nikolai Schlegel, Navid Ehsan, Zhimin Chen, Gerard D. Jennings
  • Patent number: 12293058
    Abstract: Improved techniques to utilize and manage a group of media items (or media assets) on a computing device are disclosed. The group of media items can be utilized and managed at a host computer for the host computer as well as a media device (e.g., media player) that can couple to the host computer. One popular example of a group of media items is known as a playlist, which can pertain to a group of audio tracks. One aspect pertains to providing a persistent media device playlist at a host computer. Another aspect pertains to imposing capacity limits to a playlist, such as a media device playlist. Still another aspect pertains to a graphical user interface that enables a user to trade-off storage capacity of a media device between media asset storage and data storage. Yet still another aspect pertains to a graphical user interface that assists a user with selecting media items to fill a group of media items.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Steven P. Jobs, Jeffrey L. Robbin, David Heller
  • Patent number: 12290346
    Abstract: An algorithm for removing motion artifacts from the PPG signal in the time domain to determine heart rate is disclosed. A device for determining a heart rate of a user can include a heart rate sensor configured to generate heart rate signals when positioned on or adjacent to a user's skin, an accelerometer configured to generate one or more acceleration signals, and processing circuitry configured to remove, in a time domain, motion artifacts from the heart rate signals based on the acceleration signals. In some examples, the removal of motion artifacts can also be based on mean-centered, variance-scaled integrated acceleration signals. In some examples, the processing circuitry can be configured to remove motion artifacts using a least squares algorithm to identify a best representation of acceleration and integrated acceleration signals in the heart rate signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventor: Ian R. Shapiro
  • Patent number: 12294849
    Abstract: Playback of an audio signal is simulated from a playback position to a listening position. The simulation is performed with respect to a model of a listening area. The resulting loudness of the audio, perceived at the listening position, is rendered to a display. Other aspects are described and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Matthew S. Connolly, Jared King
  • Patent number: D1073519
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Molly Anderson, Bartley K. Andre, Shota Aoyagi, Marine C. Bataille, Abidur Rahman Chowdhury, Clara Geneviève Marine Courtaigne, Markus Diebel, Alexandre B. Girard, M. Evans Hankey, Anne-Marie Heck, Moises Hernandez Hernandez, Richard P. Howarth, Julian Jaede, Duncan Robert Kerr, Kainoa Kwon-Perez, Nicolas Pedro Lylyk, Peter Riering-Czekalla, Peter Russell-Clarke, Benjamin Andrew Shaffer, Robert V. Tang, Clement Tissandier
  • Patent number: D1073687
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Nicholas V. King, Matthew Sanders
  • Patent number: D1073691
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Taylor Gerard Carrigan, Patrick Lee Coffman, Christopher P. Foss
  • Patent number: D1073692
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher P. Foss, William McMillan Tyler
  • Patent number: D1073705
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Christian Xavier Dalonzo, Shubham Kedia, William McMillan Tyler
  • Patent number: D1073707
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Kevin Will Chen, Yeo Been Chung, Andrew Patrick Clymer, Nicholas D. Felton
  • Patent number: D1073796
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Taylor Hoff, Alejandro Hernandez Torres, Haiden Goggin, Kameron Gad, Stephen Yustiono