Patents Assigned to Apple, Inc.
  • Publication number: 20240251239
    Abstract: The present application relates to devices and components including apparatuses, systems, and methods for technologies for non-seamless wireless local area access offload.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2022
    Publication date: July 25, 2024
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Vivek G. Gupta, Haijing Hu, Shu Guo
  • Publication number: 20240251412
    Abstract: Provided is a method performed by a user equipment (UE), comprising: receiving, from a base station (BS), one or more messages comprising: configuration parameters of a plurality of cells, wherein the plurality of cells are to be associated with a plurality of physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) groups comprising: a first PUCCH group comprising an active serving cell, and a secondary PUCCH group comprising a PUCCH secondary cell to be activated; and performing operations during activation of the PUCCH secondary cell based on at least one of a capability of the UE or timing advance group (TAG) configurations in the configuration parameters.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2021
    Publication date: July 25, 2024
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jie Cui, Dawei Zhang, Hong He, Huaning Niu, Manasa Raghavan, Qiming Li, Seyed Ali Akbar Fakoorian, Xiang Chen, Yang Tang
  • Publication number: 20240251271
    Abstract: Some aspects relate to apparatuses and methods for a wireless system implementing mechanisms to transmit a measurement report using physical layer (L1) carrying a sounding reference signal (SRS) reference signal received power (SRS-RSRP) measurement to provide an indication of cross link interference (CLI) between a first user equipment (UE) and a second UE. The first UE can determine a channel state information (CSI) configuration received from the base station; and configure, based on the CSI configuration, a channel measurement resource (CMR) to include a SRS received from the second UE. The first UE can measure the SRS to obtain a SRS-RSRP measurement, generate a measurement report having the SRS-RSRP measurement, and transmit the measurement report to the base station using L1.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2023
    Publication date: July 25, 2024
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Haitong SUN, Dawei ZHANG, Wei ZENG, Hong HE, Oghenekome OTERI, Chunxuan YE, Ankit BHAMRI, Manasa RAGHAVAN, Seyed Ali Akbar FAKOORIAN
  • Publication number: 20240251307
    Abstract: Provided is a method performed by a user equipment (UE), comprising: receiving, from a communication network comprising a radio access network, one or more messages comprising configuration information of at least one network slice and of at least one frequency, wherein the radio access network is associated with a plurality of base stations (BSs) providing a plurality of cells, wherein the configuration information indicates for each of the at least one frequency which one or more slices of the at least one network slice are supported; and selecting, based on the configuration information, a cell from the plurality of cells for camping on.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2021
    Publication date: July 25, 2024
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Yuqin Chen, Alexander Sirotkin, Fangli Xu, Haijing Hu, Naveen Kumar R. Palle Venkata, Pavan Nuggehalli, Ralf Rossbach, Sarma Vangala, Sethuraman Gurumoorthy, Sudeep Manithara Vamanan, Vijay Venkataraman, Zhibin Wu
  • Publication number: 20240248866
    Abstract: Techniques are disclosed for managing the connection assignments of a plurality of accessory devices to one or more hub devices. In one example, a user device acting as a leader device receives an assignment request from an accessory device. The user device may obtain information corresponding to hub attributes from the one or more hub devices. The user device may also obtain accessory traits from the accessory device. The user device can compare the accessory traits with the hub attributes to determine a connection score for each hub device. The user device can then assign the accessory device to the hub device with the highest connection score.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2024
    Publication date: July 25, 2024
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jared S. Grubb, Robert M. Stewart, Gabriel Sanchez, Zaka ur Rehman Ashraf, David J. Chandler
  • Publication number: 20240251311
    Abstract: Apparatus, systems, and methods for a network-initiated packet data network connection in communication systems are described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2024
    Publication date: July 25, 2024
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Alexandre S. Stojanovski, Muthaiah Venkatachalam
  • Publication number: 20240251369
    Abstract: Some aspects relate to apparatuses and methods for a wireless system supporting two timing advances in a serving cell for a user equipment (UE) communicating with two different transmission reception points (TRPs). The UE can determine that a first timing advance (TA) group (TAG) and a second TAG are configured for a serving cell based on a configuration received from the base station; and further determine a first TA adjustment value based on a first timing advance command (TAC) and a second TA adjustment value based on a second TAC. The UE can select a TAC from the first TAC or the second TAC to be applied to an uplink transmission. The UE can further select, based the selected TAC, a TAG from the first TAG or the second TAG; and transmit the uplink transmission according to the selected TAC with the selected TAG.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2023
    Publication date: July 25, 2024
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Haitong SUN, Xiang CHEN, Wei ZENG, Hong HE, Ankit BHAMRI, Dawei ZHANG, Huaning NIU, Oghenekome OTERI
  • Publication number: 20240251281
    Abstract: The present application relates to devices and components, including apparatus, systems, and methods for serving data traffic on an access stratum (AS) radio bearer (RB) using independently configured bearer flows. Having their own resource sets, bearer flows remove the dependency of processing and transmission, and retransmission among different traffic flows assigned to the same AS RB.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2023
    Publication date: July 25, 2024
    Applicant: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Amr Abdelrahman Yousef Abdelrahman Mostafa, Christian Hofmann, Panagiotis Botsinis, Sameh M. Eldessoki, Tarik Tabet
  • Publication number: 20240249324
    Abstract: In some implementations, a computing device may obtain an original digital media asset published to a server device along with a distributed ledger that tracks ownership of the original digital media asset. The computing device may generate a customized digital media asset that replaces the original digital media asset, and modify the distributed ledger to indicate the customization or modification of the original digital media asset and identify the customized digital media asset and the ownership thereof. The computing device may publish the customized digital media asset to a server device for distribution. Upon transfer of ownership of the customized digital media asset to a new owner, the distributed ledger may be modified to indicate the new ownership of the customized digital media asset.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2024
    Publication date: July 25, 2024
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Matthew W. Gaddis, Jeremy J. Templier
  • Patent number: 12044769
    Abstract: An electronic device may include wireless circuitry with sensing circuitry that transmits radio-frequency sensing signals and receives reflected radio-frequency sensing signals. A mixer may generate a series of beat signals based on the sensing signals and the reflected sensing signals. The sensing circuitry may generate a beat phase based on an average of the series of beat signals, a set of phase values based on the series of beat signals, and a phase velocity based on the set of phase values. The sensing circuitry may resolve a phase ambiguity in the beat phase based on the phase velocity to identify a range between the electronic device and an external object. This way may allow the sensing circuitry to generate accurate ranges even in a low signal-to-noise ratio regime, such as when the external object is moving relative to the electronic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Avihay Yehezkel, Michael Kerner, Michael Delishansky, Michael Ney, Shachar Shayovitz, Zohar Agon
  • Patent number: 12044788
    Abstract: An electronic device may be provided with wireless circuitry that includes first, second, and third antennas used to determine the position and orientation of the electronic device relative to external equipment. The antennas may include patch elements on respective substrates mounted to a flexible printed circuit. Each substrate may include fences of conductive vias that are coupled to ground and that laterally surround the corresponding patch element. Control circuitry may identify phase differences between the first and second antennas and between the second and third antennas and may identify an angle of arrival of received ultra-wideband signals using the phase differences. The control circuitry may compare the phase differences to a set of predetermined surfaces of phase differences to identify environmental loading conditions for the antenna. The control circuitry may correct the angle of arrival using offsets identified based on the environmental loading conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Aaron J. Cooper, Amin Tayebi, Carlo Di Nallo, Zheyu Wang
  • Patent number: 12045598
    Abstract: Embodiments provide methods and systems for updating application data in snapshots of applications for previewing. Some embodiments update application data by determining when current application data may expire and retrieving updated application data. The application data for various applications in a preview mode may be updated based on an allotted budget. Permission can be selectively granted to applications to obtain updated data so as to control the budget. Application data in the snapshots may appear updated to a user as the user browses the dock without requiring the applications to request updated application data when the user enters the dock, regardless of whether each application is active. Further, some embodiments may generate a snapshot using a layer hierarchy and image layer data generated while the application was last running if the time associated with when the application was last active is later than the time associated with an existing snapshot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Neil G. Crane, Joshua H. Shaffer, Paul W. Salzman, Michael J. Lamb, Austen J. Green
  • Patent number: 12045392
    Abstract: In one implementation, a method of defining a custom hand gesture is performed by a device including an image sensor, one or more processors, and non-transitory memory. The method includes receiving a request to define a first hand gesture. The method includes capturing, via the image sensor, a first performance of the first hand gesture. The method includes extracting, from the first performance of the first hand gesture, a first set of features. The method includes defining, based on the first set of features, one or more gesture matching criteria for the first hand gesture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Thomas G. Salter, Richard Ignatius Pusal Lozada
  • Patent number: 12042255
    Abstract: A wearable device includes a housing; a wrist band attached to the housing; first and second emitters positioned within the housing and configured to respectively emit, through a back of the housing, a first beam of electromagnetic radiation having a first infrared (IR) wavelength and a second beam of electromagnetic radiation having a second IR wavelength. The second IR wavelength is different from the first IR wavelength. The wearable device also includes a photodetector positioned within the housing and filtered to detect a set of electromagnetic radiation wavelengths including the first IR wavelength and the second IR wavelength; and a matter differentiation circuit configured to indicate, at least partly in response to signals indicating amounts of the first IR wavelength and the second IR wavelength received by the photodetector, whether the back of the housing is likely proximate to human tissue.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Nicholas P. Allec, Albert E. Cerussi, Maximillian C. Bruggeman, Xiyu Duan, Ueyn L. Block
  • Patent number: 12042301
    Abstract: Detecting user contact with one or more electrodes of a physiological signal sensor can be used to ensure physiological signals measured by the physiological signal sensor meet waveform characteristics (e.g., of a clinically accurate physiological signal). In some examples, a mobile and/or wearable device can comprise sensing circuitry, stimulation circuitry, and processing circuitry. The stimulation circuit can drive one or more stimulation signals on one or more electrodes, the resulting signal(s) can be measured (e.g., by the sensing circuitry), and the processing circuitry can determine whether a user is in contact with the electrode(s). Additionally or alternatively, in some examples, mobile and/or wearable device can comprise saturation detection circuitry, and the processing circuitry can determine whether the sensing circuitry is saturated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Tao Shui, Han Bi, Na Huang, Nilay D. Jani
  • Patent number: D1036290
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jody Akana, Molly Anderson, Bartley K. Andre, Shota Aoyagi, Anthony Michael Ashcroft, Jeremy Bataillou, Daniel J. Coster, Daniele De Iuliis, M. Evans Hankey, Julian Hoenig, Richard P. Howarth, Jonathan P. Ive, Duncan Robert Kerr, Marc A. Newson, Matthew Dean Rohrbach, Peter Russell-Clarke, Benjamin Andrew Shaffer, Mikael Silvanto, Christopher J. Stringer, Eugene Antony Whang, Rico Zörkendörfer
  • Patent number: D1036435
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jody Akana, Molly Anderson, Bartley K. Andre, Shota Aoyagi, Anthony Michael Ashcroft, Marine C. Bataille, Jeremy Bataillou, Abidur Rahman Chowdhury, Clara Geneviève Marine Courtaigne, Markus Diebel, Alexandre B. Girard, Jonathan Gomez Garcia, M. Evans Hankey, Anne-Marie Heck, Moises Hernandez Hernandez, Richard P Howarth, Jonathan P. Ive, Julian Jaede, Duncan Robert Kerr, Kainoa Kwon-Perez, Nicolas Pedro Lylyk, Peter Russell-Clarke, Benjamin Andrew Shaffer, Clement Tissandier, Eugene Antony Whang
  • Patent number: D1036471
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Kevin Will Chen, Marco Triverio
  • Patent number: D1036488
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Marcos Alonso Ruiz, Imran Chaudhri, Craig M. Federighi
  • Patent number: D1036502
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventor: YunJae Kim