Patents Assigned to Apple, Inc.
  • SECONDARY CELL ACTIVATION
    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
  • CELL RESELECTION
    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
  • NETWORK-INITIATED CONNECTION TRANSFER
    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
  • SUPPORTING TWO TIMING ADVANCES IN A SERVING CELL OF A WIRELESS SYSTEM
    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
  • Managing Redistribution Of Digital Media Assets
    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
  • TECHNOLOGIES FOR SERVING DATA TRAFFIC ON ACCESS STRATUM RADIO BEARER
    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
  • SOUNDING REFERENCE SIGNAL (SRS) REFERENCE SIGNAL RECEIVED POWER (SRS-RSRP) REPORTING IN WIRELESS SYSTEMS
    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
  • TECHNOLOGIES FOR NON-SEAMLESS WIRELESS LOCAL AREA ACCESS OFFLOAD
    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
  • TECHNIQUES FOR LOAD BALANCING WITH A HUB DEVICE AND MULTIPLE ENDPOINTS
    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
  • Data encoding and packet sharing in a parallel communication interface
    Patent number: 12047302
    Abstract: An apparatus includes an interface circuit and an encoder circuit. The interface circuit is configured to send a data packet via a plurality of segments, and to send an idle value via the plurality of segments when no data packet is available. The idle value is configured to cause a segment in a receiving apparatus to idle. The encoder circuit is configured to receive a particular data packet, and, if a portion of the particular data packet has a same value as the idle value for a subset of the plurality of segments, to replace at least a portion of the data packet with a mask value to generate a modified data packet. The mask value indicates how to recreate the particular data packet. The encoder circuit is further configured to send the modified data packet to the receiving apparatus via the plurality of segments of the interface circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Dany Davidov, Nir Leshem, Mark Pilip, Sergio Kolor
  • Network access by a reduced capability user equipment
    Patent number: 12048066
    Abstract: A user equipment (UE) may camp on a base station of a network. The UE receives, from the base station of a wireless network, a broadcast including access restrictions, wherein the access restrictions include one or more predetermined criteria that must be satisfied to camp on the base station. The UE then determines whether the UE satisfies the one or more predetermined criteria.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Naveen Kumar R. Palle Venkata, Dawei Zhang, Haijing Hu, Hong He, Sarma V. Vangala, Sudeep Manithara Vamanan, Wei Zeng, Yuqin Chen
  • Deployable panel or rail with reaction surface
    Patent number: 12043201
    Abstract: A support surface includes a support back, a housing defined within the support back, a restraint having a stowed position disposed within the housing, and a panel or a rail having a stowed position disposed within the housing. The support surface includes an anchor that couples an outer edge of the restraint to an outer edge of the panel or the rail. The panel or the rail is configured to guide the anchor and the restraint in traveling from the stowed positions to a deployed position spaced apart from the housing and the support back.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Adam J. Golman, Nathaniel J. Dennis, Jesse T. Buehler, Jonathan O. Sive, Donald R. Monroe, Mikael P. Sedlacek, Arturo Llamazares Domper
  • Systems and methods for PDCCH repetition reception
    Patent number: 12047172
    Abstract: A user equipment (UE) monitors a Physical Downlink Control Channel (PDCCH). The UE receives a configuration for a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) including repetitions for PDCCH candidates comprising first PDCCH data, wherein the PDCCH candidates are repeated across multiple durations of a DL resource grid, detects, based on a repetition detection scheme, each of the PDCCH candidates and combines soft bits from each of the PDCCH candidates, wherein the combined soft bits are jointly decoded to determine the first PDCCH data and calculates a number of blind decodes (BDs) for the durations of the DL resource grid carrying the PDCCH candidates, wherein at least one BD value for the PDCCH candidates is scaled by a scaling factor for the calculation of the number of BDs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Yushu Zhang, Chunhai Yao, Dawei Zhang, Haitong Sun, Hong He, Oghenekome Oteri, Sigen Ye, Wei Zeng, Weidong Yang
  • Inter-UE coordination for on-demand sensing
    Patent number: 12047914
    Abstract: Disclosed are embodiments for a request and response signaling between first and second user equipment (UE) via a PC5 link for configuring inter-UE coordination. In some embodiments, request signaling entails a first UE identifying a transmit resource pool of the first UE to be sensed or evaluated by the second UE; instructing the second UE to report information indicating a quantity of resources; and instructing the second UE to evaluate the resources to be reported. In other embodiments, response signaling entails a first UE receiving from the second UE a request signal for inter-UE coordination; indicating a set of one or more resources, in which the set is indicated as corresponding to whitelist, blacklist, or collision list; and providing a validity time for resources indicated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Zhibin Wu, Chunxuan Ye, Dawei Zhang, Fangli Xu, Haijing Hu, Yuqin Chen
  • Revisiting content history
    Patent number: 12045275
    Abstract: The content items presented to a user account as part of a media station can be recorded in a content history index, which can be requested and presented to the user account. The content history can enable a user to revisit the content items included in the content history and/or provide feedback regarding the content items. The version of the content item returned to the user can be based on the client device used to request the content item. For example, a user that was presented a content item on their mobile device, can later request to revisit the content item on their PC and receive a version of the content item best suited for presentation by the PC, rather than the version presented on the mobile device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Thomas Alsina, Kenley Sun, David T. Wilson, Sagar A. Joshi, Nicholas James Paulson, Arvind S. Shenoy
  • Retransmission of cancelled HARQ feedback
    Patent number: 12047181
    Abstract: A user equipment (UE) is configured to transmit cancelled hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) feedback. The UE generating HARQ feedback for one or more HARQ process corresponding to a component carrier (CC), identifies that a scheduled transmission for the HARQ feedback has been cancelled and retransmits the cancelled HARQ feedback using a type 3 HARQ codebook.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Weidong Yang, Chunhai Yao, Chunxuan Ye, Dawei Zhang, Haitong Sun, Hong He, Oghenekome Oteri, Sigen Ye, Wei Zeng, Yushu Zhang
  • Electronic device
    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
  • Head-mounted display
    Patent number: D1037250
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2024
    Date of Patent: July 30, 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, Jonathan Gomez Garcia, M. Evans Hankey, Moises Hernandez Hernandez, Julian Hoenig, Richard P. Howarth, Jonathan P. Ive, Julian Jaede, Duncan Robert Kerr, Nicolas Pedro Lylyk, Marc A. Newson, Peter Russell-Clarke, Benjamin Andrew Shaffer, Joe Sung-Ho Tan, Clement Tissandier, Eugene Antony Whang
  • Display screen or portion thereof with graphical user interface
    Patent number: D1037278
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Freddy Anzures, Greg Apodaca, Ismael Basso, Imran Chaudhri, Jonathan P. Ive, Chanaka Karunamuni, Joe Marianek, Matthew Dean Rohrbach, Jeremiah Daniel Shaw, Christopher Wilson
  • Display screen or portion thereof with animated graphical user interface
    Patent number: D1037299
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Lee Broughton, Cas Lemmens