Patents Assigned to Apple
  • Patent number: 12028436
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to techniques for performing communication in a wireless communication system. The communication may be semantic communication and/or may use a programmable protocol stack. A protocol stack at a transmitter and/or receiver may include customization from an application platform, e.g., which may replace one or more layers relative to a non-customized protocol stack. A transmitter may transmit data, via the customized protocol stack, using a best effort data channel, e.g., with transmission characteristics that are relatively lossy in comparison to a data channel used by the non-customized protocol stack. A receiver may receive the data and may, e.g., if the data is corrupted, select one or more model to recover the data and/or determine whether reception is successful, e.g., from a semantic point of view. The proposed system may support higher data rates, less retransmissions, and/or better quality of user experience.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Danila Zaev, Ayman Naguib
  • Patent number: 12023567
    Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to user interfaces for managing, modifying, and/or outputting workout content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Craig D. Bolton, Julie A. Arney, Jay K. Blahnik, Edward Chao, Lynne Devine, Victoria E. Hinn, Jennifer D. Patton
  • Patent number: 12028281
    Abstract: A user equipment (UE) is configured with multi-transmission and reception point (multi-TRP) operation. The UE groups capabilities of handling two overlapping physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) transmissions into a plurality of groups, determining a UE capability of handling two overlapping PDSCH transmissions based on the plurality of groups and transmits the UE capability to a next generation nodeB (gNB) of a 5G new radio (NR) wireless network. The UE also determines if a demodulation reference signal (DMRS) of a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) transmission collides with a cell-specific reference signal (CRS) of a long term evolution (LTE) transmission and determines if the CRS originated from a same multi-transmission/reception point (TRP) as the DMRS.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Haitong Sun, Chunhai Yao, Chunxuan Ye, Dawei Zhang, Hong He, Oghenekome Oteri, Sigen Ye, Wei Zeng, Weidong Yang, Yushu Zhang
  • Patent number: 12028822
    Abstract: Embodiments of an integrated access and backhaul (IAB) node, a User Equipment (UE), and methods of communication are generally described herein. An IAB node may operate as a relay between an IAB donor and a UE. The IAB node may receive, from the IAB donor, first signaling that indicates a first timing advance (TA) offset between the IAB donor and the IAB node. The IAB node may determine a second TA offset between the IAB node and the UE. The second TA offset may be based on a timing difference between a transmission time of a downlink frame transmitted to the UE and a reception time of an uplink frame from the UE. The IAB node may transmit, to the UE, second signaling that indicates the first TA offset and the second TA offset.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Dawei Ying, Geng Wu, Lili Wei, Qian Li
  • Patent number: 12026342
    Abstract: An electronic device can include a housing, a back cover, a structural member, and a sensing circuit. The housing can at least partially define an internal volume of the electronic device and the back cover can define at least a portion of the internal volume and be connected to the housing. The structural member can be disposed against the back cover and at least partially within the internal volume, the structural member including an electronic component. The sensing circuit can be disposed in the internal volume and electrically coupled to the electronic component. The sensing circuit can detect an amount of charge of the electronic component as part of a user proximity sensor of the electronic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Tyler S. Atura Bushnell, Andreas J. Koeberl, Eric S. Winokur, Matthew J. Schwendeman, Timothy M. Johnson
  • Patent number: 12028098
    Abstract: 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. A power amplifier may include a phase distortion compensation circuit. The phase distortion compensation circuit may include one or more n-type metal-oxide-semiconductor capacitors configured to receive a bias voltage. The bias voltage may be set to provide the proper amount of phase distortion compensation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventor: Saihua Lin
  • Patent number: 12026705
    Abstract: In order to validate a user to facilitate conducting a high-valued financial transaction via wireless communication between an electronic device (such as a smartphone) and another electronic device (such as a point-of-sale terminal), the electronic device may authenticate the user prior to the onset of the high-valued financial transaction. In particular, a secure enclave processor in a processor may provide local validation information that is specific to the electronic device to a secure element in the electronic device when received local authentication information that is specific to the electronic device (such as a biometric identifier of the user) matches stored authentication information. Moreover, an authentication applet in the secure element may provide the local validation information to an activated payment applet in the secure element. This may enable the payment applet to conduct the high-valued financial transaction via wireless communication, such as near-field communication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventor: Ahmer A. Khan
  • Patent number: 12028731
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure describe methods, apparatuses, storage media, and systems for configuration of System frame number (SFN) and Frame Timing Difference (SFTD) measurement in an E-UTRA (Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access)—NR Dual Connectivity (EN-DC) network, and an NE-DC network. Various embodiments describe how to configure and perform the SFTD measurement in the EN-DC or NE-DC network of various conditions to facilitate adequate SFTD measurements and improve measurement accuracy and system performance. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Yuhan Zhou, Jie Cui, Yang Tang, Hua Li, Rui Huang
  • Patent number: 12028421
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for collecting, storing, and transmitting account information in a matchable form, and for using this information to quickly set up accounts. Account information is maintained and shared between one or more client devices and an intermediate server. Account information can be reconciled locally to determine whether to add or enable an active account or an account proxy to a client device. Account proxies can be quickly enabled by a single user action. The methods and systems allow enabled accounts and account proxies to be removed from a first client device without propagating the deletion to a second client device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Michael McDougall, Steve S. Ko, John William Scalo, Patrick L Coffman, Aaron Matthew Everitt
  • Patent number: 12028858
    Abstract: Techniques discussed herein can facilitate multi-transmission reception point (multi-TRP) operation for new radio (NR). One example apparatus may be employed at a user equipment (UE) and may comprise one or more processors configured to transmit uplink control information (UCI) on two physical uplink control channels (PUCCHs). The two PUCCHs occupy different symbols in the same slot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Gang Xiong, Joonyoung Cho, Alexei Davydov, Seunghee Han, Yushu Zhang
  • Patent number: 12028765
    Abstract: Some embodiments of this disclosure include systems, apparatuses, methods, and computer-readable media for use in a wireless network for configuring the operation of a use equipment (UE) for and after exiting a conditional handover. Some embodiments are directed to a user equipment (UE). The UE includes processor circuitry and radio front circuitry. The processor circuitry can be configured to receive, using the radio front end circuitry and from a source device associated with a source cell, a conditional handover command for a conditional handover to a target cell. The processor circuitry can be further configured to determine, based on the received conditional handover command, a condition for exiting the conditional handover. The processor circuitry can be further configured to in response to the condition being met, exit the conditional handover.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventor: Candy Yiu
  • Patent number: 12026317
    Abstract: An electronic device includes air input sensors that gather air input from a user's fingers, a stylus, or other object in a volume of air near the electronic device. The air input sensors include ultrasonic transducers that emit ultrasonic signals towards the volume of air and that detect the ultrasonic signals after the signals reflect from the external object. Using time-of-flight measurement techniques, control circuitry tracks the movement of the external object in the volume of air near the electronic device. A display provides visual feedback of the air input, such as shadows that preview where the input will be directed to on the display. The volume of air where input is detected is divided into multiple input zones that trigger different actions from the electronic device. The ultrasonic transducers include acoustic lenses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventor: Bogdan T. Bucheru
  • Patent number: 12028122
    Abstract: An approach is described for a source device associated with a source cell, where the source device includes radio front end circuitry and processor circuitry coupled to the radio front end circuitry. The processor circuitry is configured to transmit configuration information to a user equipment (UE); transmit a request for a transmission or receiving time offset (TO) to the UE; receive the transmission or receiving TO from the EE. The processor circuitry is further configured to transmit the configuration information and the transmission or receiving TO to a second source device associated with a second source cell for a CLI reference signal measurement, wherein the EE is associated with the source cell, and the configuration information comprises an SRS instruction for the EE to enable an uplink (EE) CSI acquisition or tracking.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventor: Honglei Miao
  • Patent number: 12026033
    Abstract: A system and method for efficiently transferring data between devices. In various embodiments, a host computing device receives parallel data, encodes the parallel data as a count of pulses as serial data, and conveys the serial data to a peripheral device. The peripheral device decodes the received serial data to determine the parallel data, which is sent to processing logic. The devices send the encoded pluses on a bidirectional line, so the pulses are capable of being sent in both directions. The devices send the encoded pulses on the bidirectional line using a non-zero base voltage level. The devices are capable of using a voltage headroom when conveying encoded pulses between one another. Therefore, a full voltage swing between a ground reference voltage level and a power supply voltage level is not used when conveying the encoded pulses, which reduces power consumption.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventor: James M. Hollabaugh
  • Patent number: 12028196
    Abstract: A vehicle may wirelessly communicate with another vehicle via a physical channel (a vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) channel) that is robust and reliable under high mobility propagation conditions. The physical channel may be created by modifying an existing long-term evolution (LTE) physical channel, such as an LTE sidelink (SL) channel. For instance, the V2V physical channel may be created by increasing, by a particular factor, the subcarrier spacing of legacy LTE channels (e.g., from 15 kilohertz (kHz) to 30 kHz). Additionally, a symbol duration and a fast Fourier transform (FFT) size for the V2V physical channel may each be reduced by the same factor. Doing so may enable the V2V physical channel to be implemented without significant modifications to other aspects of the LTE standard.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Alexey Khoryaev, Andrey Cheryakov, Dmitry Belov, Mikhail Shilov
  • Patent number: 12028867
    Abstract: Systems, apparatuses, methods, and computer-readable media are provided for a wireless communication on an unlicensed spectrum. An access point (AP) of the wireless communication system includes a processor circuitry, and radio front end circuitry coupled to the processor circuitry. The processor circuitry is configured to schedule multiple transmission time intervals (multi-TTIs) in a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) in the unlicensed spectrum. The processor circuitry is configured to generate a downlink control information (DCI) to include the scheduled multi-TTIs and a hybrid automatic repeat and request acknowledgement (HARQACK) assessment information associated with the scheduled multi-TTIs. The radio front end circuitry is configured to transmit the DCI to a user equipment (UE) over the unlicensed spectrum.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Yingyang Li, Salvatore Talarico, Yongjun Kwak, Jose Armando Oviedo
  • Patent number: 12027117
    Abstract: Systems and methods may reduce or eliminate image artifacts due to a defective pixel of an electronic display. An electronic display may include pixels that respectively include a self-emissive element, pixel drive circuitry that supplies a pixel drive current to drive the self-emissive element, and signal routing circuitry that reduces or eliminates a visual artifact due to a defective pixel among the pixels. The signal routing circuitry may do this by turning off the self-emissive element, supplying image data from the pixel drive circuitry to a first adjacent pixel, or receiving image data from other pixel drive circuitry from the first adjacent pixel or a second adjacent pixel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: John T. Wetherell, Cheuk Chi Lo, Chun-Yao Huang, Lingtao Wang, Derek Keith Shaeffer, Henry C. Jen, Hasan Akyol, Xuebei Yang, Chung-Lun Edwin Hsu, Patrick Bryce Bennett, Chun-Ming Tang, Yingkan Lin, Sheng Zhang, Chaohao Wang, Runjie Xu, Shingo Hatanaka
  • Patent number: 12028847
    Abstract: Latency reduction techniques for radio access networks are described. In various embodiments, a reduced transmission time interval (rTTI) may be implemented in order to reduce air interface latency in a radio access network. In some embodiments, an rTTI block may be defined, and some operations may be performed in rTTI block-wise fashion in order to reduce the marginal overhead associated with implementation of the rTTI. In various embodiments in which an rTTI is implemented, DM-RS granularity may be improved by use of techniques that enable data and reference signals to be multiplexed within a same OFDM symbol. In some embodiments, a current transmission time interval (TTI) may be maintained, and latency reduction may be achieved via the use of novel techniques for one or more of code block (CB) segmentation, uplink (UL) resource element (RE) mapping, and HARQ cycle timing. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Christian Ibars Casas, Seunghee Han
  • Patent number: D1033379
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Bartley K. Andre, Daniel J. Coster, Daniele De Iuliis, Richard P. Howarth, Jonathan P. Ive, Steven P. Jobs, Duncan Robert Kerr, Shin Nishibori, Matthew Dean Rohrbach, Peter Russell-Clarke, Douglas B. Satzger, Christopher J. Stringer, Eugene Antony Whang, Rico Zörkendörfer
  • Patent number: D1033451
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Kevin Will Chen, Andrew Patrick Clymer, Diogo Jose Da Silva Valente Soares, Aurelio Guzmán