Patents Assigned to Apple, Inc.
  • Patent number: 11671823
    Abstract: A wireless communication device (UE) may provide information pertaining to one or more operating capabilities of the UE to LTE and 5G-NR networks. The UE may transmit information to an LTE base station directly, and to a 5G-NR base station directly, or indirectly via the LTE base station. The information may include preferred values corresponding to any number of different operating parameters associated with wireless communications or wireless communication capabilities of the UE in both LTE and 5G-NR networks, to inform and/or request the LTE and 5G-NR networks to make provisions based on the transmitted information for the wireless communications of the UE on those networks. The UE may thereby provide assistance information to LTE and 5G-NR networks in a multi-radio-access-technology dual-connectivity setting to request the respective networks to adjust certain operating capabilities of the UE in order to alleviate one or more operating issues that may be affecting the UE.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Yuchul Kim, Christian W. Mucke, Haijing Hu, Dawei Zhang, Matthias Sauer, Johnson O. Sebeni
  • Patent number: 11669585
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes receiving an input tensor corresponding to a media object at a binary convolutional neural network, wherein the binary convolutional neural network comprises at least one binary convolution layer comprising one or more weights, and wherein the media object is associated with a particular task, binarizing the input tensor by the at least one binary convolution layer, binarizing the one or more weights by the at least one binary convolution layer, and generating an output corresponding to the particular task by the binary convolutional neural network based on the binarized input tensor and the binarized one or more weights.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Carlo Eduardo Cabanero del Mundo, Ali Farhadi
  • Patent number: 11672089
    Abstract: Support systems for electronic devices such as display screens are described and have support connector portions configured to connect to support devices such as adjustable mount supports. The support devices have magnetic elements, and the display devices have magnetic sensors configured to detect the magnetic fields emitted from the support devices. A relationship between the magnetic fields detected and target magnetic field values is determined to provide an output signal or indicator of the propriety of the support device used or the propriety of its connection to the display device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventor: Simon S. Lee
  • Patent number: 11671686
    Abstract: A camera module may be assembled from a base component formed of a horizontal surface and having a raised wall that extends vertically from the horizontal surface and a housing component having a vertical surface that affixes to, with adhesive, the raised wall of the base component. Assembly of the camera module may include dispensing adhesive along a top edge of the raised wall to partially overhang the edge and placing the housing component down onto the base component. During assembly, the adhesive that is distributed on the top surface of the raised wall can be sheared or otherwise distributed by the action of the a corresponding wall of the housing component moving to past the top surface and causes at least some of the adhesive to spread between opposing surfaces of respective vertical walls of the base component and the housing component of the camera. The adhesive is then cured.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jay C. Maghirang, Ng Chin Chuan, Howell John Chua Toc, Ariel B. Hontiveros
  • Patent number: 11671250
    Abstract: Migration of a pairing of wearable device to a new companion electronic device is disclosed. In one embodiment, pairing migration is performed by syncing and verifying a migration key in the wearable and new companion device. Pairing migration includes moving settings and pairing data of the wearable to the new companion device in response to detecting the wearable is associated with the migration key, wherein the migration key establishes a validation of trust of the wearable relative to the companion device. The settings and pairing data can include configuration and protected data and one or more keys to establish a trust relationship between the wearable and new companion device. The settings and pairing data can also include device data such that the wearable can be discoverable by the new companion device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: David C. Donley, Per Love Hornquist Astrand, Chen Ganir, Craig P. Dooley, James C. Grandy, Julien A. Poumailloux, Tyler D. Hawkins, David S. Wilser, David P. Remahl
  • Patent number: 11669243
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are single-finger gestures for activating a trackpad mode on a touch-sensitive device with no force sensors. An example method includes: displaying a virtual keyboard on a touch-sensitive display with a spacebar key and other keys. Detecting a first extended contact over the virtual keyboard and, in accordance with a determination that the first extended contact is over any of the respective displayed representations of the other keys, interpreting the first extended contact as a keyboard input and activating a corresponding extended keyboard function. The method also includes: detecting a second extended contact over the virtual keyboard. The method further includes: in accordance with a determination that the second extended contact is over a respective displayed representation of the spacebar key, interpreting the second extended contact as a mode-switching input that causes the electronic device to operate at least a portion of the touch-sensitive display as a trackpad.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventor: Randal J. Marsden
  • Patent number: 11669171
    Abstract: An electronic device with a display and an embedded fingerprint sensor displays a lock screen on the display. While displaying the lock screen, the electronic device detects a first touch input on the embedded fingerprint sensor. In response to detecting the first touch input on the embedded fingerprint sensor: the electronic device, in accordance with a determination that first timing criteria are met, displays content of a plurality of messages; and the electronic device, in accordance with a determination that second timing criteria, different from the first timing criteria are met, ceases to display the lock screen and displaying a home screen use interface for the electronic device with a plurality of application icons.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Julian K. Missig, Rachel L. Ciavarella, Jeffrey Traer Bernstein, Linda L. Dong
  • Patent number: 11669883
    Abstract: Embodiments described herein provide a security model and interface for wearable device digital purchases that can be made without the assistance of a companion device. The satellite device can be configured to be used as a primary device, without reliance upon a paired device. A provisioning process may be implemented to generate and validate one or more tokens to authenticate the wearable device and a set of cryptographic keys can be generated. Subsequently, the token(s) and cryptographic keys may be used to enable a user of the wearable device to make purchases from a digital shopping store without support from an associated companion electronic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Peter J. Hare, Dana J. DuBois, Eric O. Carlson, Lori Hylan-Cho, Keith P. Kowalczykowski, Matthew Sibson
  • Patent number: 11671304
    Abstract: Embodiments include devices and methods that improves quality in radio transmission/reception using a single-carrier scheme and/or a multi-carrier scheme.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Yutaka Murakami, Tomohiro Kimura, Mikihiro Ouchi
  • Patent number: 11671554
    Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to providing live video. An example method includes, at a computer system, while in an editing mode for a presentation, receiving, via one or more input devices, a request to insert an object onto a first slide of the presentation, wherein the request includes associating the object with a source for live video; and while in a presentation mode for the presentation, displaying, via a display generation component, the first slide including concurrent display of the object and one or more visual elements, wherein: in accordance with a determination that the object is associated with a camera, the object includes a live video stream from the camera; and in accordance with a determination that the object is associated with a non-camera external device, the object includes a live video stream that mirrors a portion of a display of the non-camera external device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: David A. Underwood, Gary W. Gehiere, Michael W. Greiner, Amy W. Hung, Scott G. Marnik, David A. Turner
  • Patent number: 11669235
    Abstract: A computer system displays a respective user interface corresponding to a restricted state. Displaying a first user interface that corresponds to the restricted state when a current time is outside a first preset time period, and displaying a second user interface that corresponds to the restricted state when the current time is within the first preset time period. While displaying the respective user interface, detecting a first input. In response to detecting the first input that meets first criteria, directed to the first user interface, replacing display of the first user interface with a third user interface different from the first and second user interfaces. In response to detecting the first input that meets second criteria different from the first criteria, directed to the second user interface, replacing display of the second user interface with display of the first user interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Matthew W. Crowley, Pablo F. Caro, Charmian B. Naguit, Eamon F. Gilravi, Christopher P. Foss
  • Patent number: 11671907
    Abstract: Systems and methods of providing a V2X communications are generally described. A geographically-limited, operator-independent mapping table is used that maps between groups of V2X applications each associated with a different application category and a different RAT preferred for the V2X application category. Each grouping is based on fulfillment of one or more KPIs for the associated V2X application category. Multiple RATs are prioritized if able to fulfill the KPIs. The mapping table is modified based on the RATs supported by the V2X UE. Carrier aggregation is used when simultaneous transmission on different RATs is desired.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Meghashree Dattatri Kedalagudde, Ana Lucia Pinheiro, Ranganadh Karella, Vivek Gupta, Dave A. Cavalcanti
  • Patent number: 11671822
    Abstract: An apparatus of a user equipment (UE) comprises one or more baseband processors to encode a unique UE identifier to be transmitted to an Access and Mobility Function (AMF) of a Fifth Generation (5G) network, wherein the unique identifier identifies UE capabilities to be stored in a UE capabilities database. An apparatus of Access and Mobility Function (AMF) of a Fifth Generation (5G) network comprises one or more processors to receive a user equipment (UE) Capabilities update from a remote server to update a UE capability database that stores UE capability information corresponding to one or more UEs identified with a unique identifier, and to process the UE Capabilities update via one or more Application Programming Interfaces (APIs).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Alexandre Saso Stojanovski, Ashish Singh, Franz Goldhofer, Michael Zitzmann, Naveen Palle, Puneet Jain, Richard Burbidge, Sudeep Palat, Sudeep Manithara Vamanan, Sushant Kumar, Youn Hyoung Heo
  • Patent number: 11671493
    Abstract: Embodiments described herein provide for a non-transitory machine-readable medium storing instructions to cause one or more processors to select a set of content items from a content item collection based upon a temporal relevance and a contextual relevance to a period of time, rank the set of content items based on at least one of a content item category or a content item predefined relevance score, partition the period of time into a set of time slots to schedule for rendering content in an application, rank the set of time slots based on device usage analysis for the period of time, and schedule the set of content items into the set of time slots in accordance with the rankings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Stephen Cosman, Alexis Hugo Louis Durocher, Andrey Leonov, Tai Ying Chiang
  • Patent number: 11671134
    Abstract: An electronic device may include wireless circuitry having one or more radios and one or more antennas. The wireless circuitry may operate in the presence of radio-frequency interference coming from various sources, which can cause a loss of sensitivity or desensitization of the wireless circuitry. To detect and mitigate desensitization of the wireless circuitry, one or more processors may receive wireless circuitry performance metric data, discriminate between wideband interference and narrowband interference based on the wireless circuitry performance metric data, and use different representative noise floor values for wideband interference or narrowband interference to characterize the desensitization of the wireless circuitry.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventor: Imran Latif
  • Patent number: D988297
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jody Akana, Molly Anderson, Bartley K. Andre, Shota Aoyagi, Anthony Michael Ashcroft, Marine C. Bataille, Jeremy Bataillou, Daniel J. Coster, Daniele De Iuliis, Markus Diebel, M. Evans Hankey, Julian Hoenig, Richard P. Howarth, Jonathan P. Ive, Julian Jaede, Duncan Robert Kerr, Peter Russell-Clarke, Benjamin Andrew Shaffer, Mikael Silvanto, Christopher J. Stringer, Joe Sung-Ho Tan, Clement Tissandier, Eugene Antony Whang, Rico Zörkendörfer
  • Patent number: D988304
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jody Akana, Molly Anderson, Bartley K. Andre, Shota Aoyagi, Anthony Michael Ashcroft, Marine C. Bataille, Jeremy Bataillou, Markus Diebel, M. Evans Hankey, Julian Hoenig, Richard P. Howarth, Jonathan P. Ive, Julian Jaede, Duncan Robert Kerr, Peter Russell-Clarke, Benjamin Andrew Shaffer, Sung-Ho Tan, Clement Tissandier, Eugene Antony Whang, Rico Zörkendörfer
  • Patent number: D988341
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Patrick Lee Coffman, Bradley William Griffin, Stephen O. Lemay, Christopher Daryl Soli, Nathan de Vries
  • Patent number: D988344
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Imran Chaudhri, Alan C. Dye, Jonathan P. Ive, Christopher Wilson, Eric Lance Wilson
  • Patent number: D988345
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Kevin Will Chen, Alan C. Dye, Hanwen Fan, Aurelio Guzmán, Lauren Kim Trottier, Christopher I. Wilson