Patents Assigned to Apple
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Patent number: 12118332Abstract: Techniques are disclosed relating to dedicated power function circuitry for a floating-point power instruction. In some embodiments, execution circuitry is configured to execute a floating-point power instruction to evaluate the power function xy as 2y log2x. In some embodiments, base-2 logarithm circuitry is configured to evaluate a base-2 logarithm for a first input (e.g., log2 x) by determining coefficients for a polynomial function and evaluating the polynomial function using the determined coefficients and the first input. In some embodiments, multiplication circuitry multiplies the base-2 logarithm result by a second input to generate a multiplication result. In some embodiments, base-2 power function circuitry is configured to evaluate a base-2 power function for the multiplication result. Disclosed techniques may advantageously increase performance and reduce power consumption of floating-point power function operations with reasonable area and accuracy, relative to traditional techniques.Type: GrantFiled: October 11, 2022Date of Patent: October 15, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Ali Sazegari, Segev Elmalem, O-Cheng Chang, Jingwei Zhang, Ido Soffair, Aaftab A. Munshi
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Patent number: 12118249Abstract: Systems, apparatuses, and methods for addressing bank hotspotting are described. A computing system includes a memory controller with an arbiter for determining how to arbitrate access to one or more memory device(s) for received requests. The arbiter categorizes each request in a manner that helps to ensure fair virtual channel distribution across the banks of the memory device(s). The category system includes bank hotspotting functions to give banks that have more requests more chances to go over banks with fewer requests. The category system is implemented proportionally with more category credits given to banks with higher bank depths within the virtual channel.Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 2023Date of Patent: October 15, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Gregory S. Mathews, Kai Lun Hsiung, Lakshmi Narasimha Murthy Nukala, Shane J. Keil, Thejasvi Magudilu Vijayaraj, Yanzhe Liu, Tao Zhang
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Patent number: 12120082Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to user interfaces for managing messages. Receiving a message and displaying the message based on a categorization of the message sender or, if the message sender is not categorized, displaying a prompt to categorize the message sender.Type: GrantFiled: June 2, 2023Date of Patent: October 15, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventor: Marcos A. Weskamp
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Patent number: 12120689Abstract: Methods and devices for a UE to multiplex uplink control information (UCI). The UE establishes a connection with a base station. The UE determines whether to multiplex first UCI by first identifying whether intra-priority timing overlap exists between the timing resources of the first UCI and a PUSCH with the same priority. Subsequently, the UE identifies whether inter-priority timing overlap exists between the timing resources of the first UCI and a second PUCCH with a different priority from the first PUCCH. Finally, the UE identifies whether the timing resources of the first UCI overlap with a second PUSCH with a different priority than the first PUCCH. The UE multiplexes the first UCI based on the determination whether to multiplex the first UCI, and transmits the multiplexed first UCI to the base station.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2021Date of Patent: October 15, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Weidong Yang, Oghenekome Oteri, Chunhai Yao, Chunxuan Ye, Dawei Zhang, Haitong Sun, Hong He, Huaning Niu, Seyed Ali Akbar Fakoorian, Sigen Ye, Wei Zeng, Yushu Zhang
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Patent number: 12120633Abstract: This disclosure relates to techniques for performing paging forwarding for remote wireless devices in a wireless communication system. A relay wireless device and a remote wireless device may establish a relay link. The relay wireless device may provide an indication of the relay link between the relay wireless device and the remote wireless device to a cellular base station. The relay wireless device may receive paging information for the remote wireless device from the cellular base station. The relay wireless device may provide the paging information to the remote wireless device via the relay link between the relay wireless device and the remote wireless device.Type: GrantFiled: July 21, 2020Date of Patent: October 15, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Fangli Xu, Dawei Zhang, Haijing Hu, Yuqin Chen, Longda Xing, Srinivasan Nimmala, Srirang A. Lovlekar, Sethuraman Gurumoorthy, Murtaza A. Shikari, Sree Ram Kodali
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Patent number: 12120567Abstract: Some embodiments of this disclosure include systems, apparatuses, methods, and computer-readable media for use in a wireless network for redirecting a user equipment (UE) to an evolved universal terrestrial radio access (UTRA) absolute radio frequency number (EARFCN) of an evolved universal mobile telecommunications service terrestrial radio access network (EUTRAN) band with a band number greater than sixty four. For example, some embodiments are directed to an electronic device including radio front end circuitry and processor circuitry coupled to the radio front end circuitry. The processor circuitry is configured to generate a channel release message and transmit, using the radio front end circuitry, the channel release message to the UE. The channel release message is configured to redirect the UE to the EARFCN of the EUTRAN band with the band number greater than sixty four.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2020Date of Patent: October 15, 2024Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: Sudeep Manithara Vamanan, Seau Sian Lim
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Patent number: 12119796Abstract: An electronic device may include wireless circuitry with a processor, a transceiver, an antenna, and a front-end module coupled between the transceiver and the antenna. The front-end module may include one or more power amplifiers for amplifying a signal for transmission through the antenna. Radio-frequency power amplifier circuitry may include an amplifier, an input transformer for coupling radio-frequency input signals to the amplifier, an active inductor load coupled to the input transformer, and a second order intermodulation generation circuit configured to generate and inject a second order intermodulation product into the input transformer. The injected second order intermodulation product can be used to cancel out unwanted third order intermodulation products generated by the amplifier, which reduces intermodulation distortion experienced by the amplifier circuitry.Type: GrantFiled: December 1, 2021Date of Patent: October 15, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventor: Nitesh Singhal
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Patent number: 12118548Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to methods and user interfaces for managing information on computer systems. In some embodiments, methods and user interfaces for managing display of user interface elements based on movement of the computer system and requesting account information are described. In some embodiments, methods and user interface for provisioning an account onto a computer system are described. In some embodiments, methods and user interfaces for associating a transfer amount with an account are described. In some embodiments, methods and user interfaces for displaying user interface elements corresponding to transaction types are described. In some embodiments, methods and user interfaces for managing one or more pending loans are described. In some embodiments, methods for entering a numeric sequence are described. In some embodiments, methods for locking a computer system while entering a number sequence are described.Type: GrantFiled: August 12, 2022Date of Patent: October 15, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Trevor W. Young, Thomas J. Miller, Policarpo B. Wood, Antonio Allen, Flavio Mattos De Carvalho, Adam M. Noffsinger, Michael C. Evashevski
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Patent number: 12119549Abstract: An electronic device may have an upper housing and a lower housing separated by a slot. An antenna module may be mounted in the lower housing and may include a cavity. An antenna element may be disposed within the cavity. Grounded traces may be patterned onto walls of the module and may be coupled to conductive walls of the lower housing by conductive gaskets. The antenna element may have a high band arm displaced farther into the cavity than a low band arm by a shim. The antenna module may have an acoustic port aligned with a speaker port. The acoustic port may allow sound waves from a speaker to pass into the cavity from the speaker port. The cavity may be configured to optimize an audio response of the speaker while concurrently optimizing radio-frequency performance of the antenna element.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 2022Date of Patent: October 15, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Joel D Barrera, Nikolaos Chiotellis, Michael J Williams, Jerzy S Guterman, Trevor J Edmonds, Joshua P Song, Richard D Kosoglow
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Patent number: 12120617Abstract: Apparatuses, systems, and methods for CCA power signaling during COT sharing. A UE may report a maximum EIRP for COT sharing as a UE capability, e.g., for a frequency range between 52.6 and 71 gigahertz. The UE may receive a Pout value for CCA based on the UE capability and may report an actual EIRP used for CCA to acquire the COT. For configured grant COT sharing, the UE may perform a directional LBT with a specific EIRP and beam detection for a transmission burst and report a Pout value for COT sharing based on the directional LBT, e.g., via a configured grant uplink control indication. For dynamic grant COT sharing, the UE may detect that an EIRP exceeds a threshold and report a Pout value for COT sharing via a medium access control (MAC) control element. The threshold may be based on a closed loop power control setting.Type: GrantFiled: April 6, 2021Date of Patent: October 15, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Huaning Niu, Chunxuan Ye, Dawei Zhang, Wei Zeng, Hong He, Sigen Ye, Oghenekome Oteri, Weidong Yang, Yushu Zhang
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Patent number: 12120048Abstract: Systems, apparatuses, methods, and computer-readable media are provided for Remote Interference Management (RIM) in wireless networks, including RIM reference signals (RIM-RS) transmitted to assist victim Radio Access Network (RAN) nodes to identify aggressor RAN nodes due to, for example, atmospheric ducting. The RIM-RS is also bandwidth-flexible in order to enable detection of the RIM-RS by aggressor RAN nodes with different bandwidth configurations. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 2019Date of Patent: October 15, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Hassan Ghozlan, Qian Li, Dawei Ying, Geng Wu
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Patent number: 12117320Abstract: In an embodiment, a system on a chip (SOC) includes a component that remains powered when a central processing unit (CPU) processor and a memory controller of the SOC are powered off. The component may include a sensor capture unit to capture audio samples from an audio detector circuit and write them to a memory of the component. A processor of the component may be configured to search the audio samples for a predetermined pattern during a time when the CPU processor and the memory controller are powered down. In some embodiments, based on the audio samples filling to a threshold level in the memory of the component and a lack of detection of the predetermined pattern, the component is configured to wake up the memory controller and a path to the memory controller in order to write the audio sample to a memory controlled by the memory controller.Type: GrantFiled: July 2, 2021Date of Patent: October 15, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Brijesh Tripathi, Shane J. Keil, Manu Gulati, Jung Wook Cho, Erik P. Machnicki, Gilbert H. Herbeck, Timothy J. Millet, Joshua P. de Cesare, Anand Dalal, Michael F. Culbert
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Patent number: 12120294Abstract: A video decoding method according to the present disclosure includes determining a reference sample line for a current block, deriving an intra prediction mode for the current block, and performing intra prediction of the current block based on the reference sample line and the intra prediction mode.Type: GrantFiled: June 16, 2023Date of Patent: October 15, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventor: Bae Keun Lee
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Patent number: 12120493Abstract: In one implementation, a method of transforming a sound into a virtual sound for a synthesized reality (SR) setting is performed by a head-mounted device (HMD) including one or more processors, non-transitory memory, a microphone, a speaker, and a display. The method includes displaying, on the display, an image representation of a synthesized reality (SR) setting including a plurality of surfaces associated with an acoustic reverberation property of the SR setting. The method includes recording, via the microphone, a real sound produced in a physical setting. The method further includes generating, using the one or more processors, a virtual sound by transforming the real sound based on the acoustic reverberation property of the SR setting. The method further includes playing, via the speaker, the virtual sound.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2023Date of Patent: October 15, 2024Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventor: Avi Bar-Zeev
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Patent number: 12118201Abstract: An electronic device with a display device displays a user interface that includes content. The electronic device, while displaying the user interface that includes content, detects a first input. The electronic device, in response to detecting the first input, displays an annotation layer over the displayed content. At least a portion of the content is visible through the annotation layer. The electronic device, while displaying the annotation layer, displays a set of markup tools, including a plurality of tools for adding marks to the annotation layer. The electronic device detects a second input selecting a first markup tool of the set of markup tools. The electronic device adds one or more marks on the annotation layer in accordance with one or more additional inputs using the selected first markup tool.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2020Date of Patent: October 15, 2024Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: David C. Graham, Kenneth L. Kocienda, Caelan G. Stack, Christopher P. Foss, Freddy A. Anzures
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Patent number: 12119304Abstract: Structures and methods of forming fine die-to-die interconnect routing are described. In an embodiment, a package includes a package-level RDL than spans across a die set and includes a plurality of die-to-die interconnects connecting contact pads between each die. In an embodiment, the plurality of die-to-die interconnects is embedded within one or more photoimageable organic dielectric layers.Type: GrantFiled: May 14, 2021Date of Patent: October 15, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Sanjay Dabral, Zhitao Cao, Kunzhong Hu
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Patent number: 12118192Abstract: A computer system detects one or more inputs to subscribe to updates from a first application for a first event and to subscribe to updates from a second application for a second event. The system displays a user interface. Displaying the user interface includes: when the first event is active and the second event is not active, displaying a first representation of the first event in a first region of the user interface, and updating first information contained in the first representation of the first event based on updates received from the first application; and when the second event is active and the first event is not active, displaying a second representation of the second event in the first region of the user interface, and updating second information contained in the second representation of the second event based on updates received from the second application.Type: GrantFiled: September 20, 2022Date of Patent: October 15, 2024Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: Caelan G. Stack, Christopher P. Foss, William M. Tyler, Christian X. Dalonzo
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Patent number: 12120571Abstract: Performing a UE-triggered lower layer-based handover may include, based on measurements associated with both a source gNB and a target gNB, determining that a UE-triggered handover utilizing layer 1 or layer 2 is to be performed. First uplink resources configured by the source gNB for a dedicated scheduling request may be determined. The dedicated scheduling request may be generated at the UE to request second uplink resources from the gNB for a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) a handover request in a media access control (MAC) control element (CE). The handover request carried by the MAC CE for the source gNB may be generated. In response to the handover request, a handover command from the source gNB associated with performing a handover procedure from the source gNB to the target gNB may be processed.Type: GrantFiled: May 15, 2020Date of Patent: October 15, 2024Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: Yushu Zhang, Chunhai Yao, Dawei Zhang, Fangli Xu, Haijing Hu, Haitong Sun, Wei Zeng
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Patent number: 12120661Abstract: Some embodiments of this disclosure include apparatuses and methods for accessing a communication frequency channel by a first communication system during a first time interval, and accessing the communication frequency channel by a second communication system during a second time interval adjacent to the first time interval. The first communication system communicates using cellular communication techniques, and the second communication system communicates using IEEE 802.11 based communication techniques.Type: GrantFiled: January 3, 2020Date of Patent: October 15, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Ying He, Markus Dominik Mueck, Leonardo Gomes Baltar, Mustafa Emara, Miltiadis Filippou, Ren Ping Liu, Dinh Thai Hoang, Diep Nguyen, Eryk Dutkiewicz, Srikanteswara Srikathyayani
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Patent number: D1046803Type: GrantFiled: February 15, 2024Date of Patent: October 15, 2024Assignee: 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, Mikael Silvanto, Sung-Ho Tan, Clement Tissandier, Eugene Antony Whang, Rico Zörkendörfer