Patents Assigned to Apple
  • Patent number: 12019863
    Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to selecting text. An example method includes displaying, a focus indicator at a first location; while displaying the focus indicator, detecting a gesture at a first touch location that corresponds to the focus indicator; while detecting the gesture, detecting movement of the gesture to a second touch location; in response to detecting movement of the gesture to the second touch location: in accordance with a determination that the second touch location is in a first direction, moving the focus indicator to a second indicator location; in accordance with a determination that the second touch location is in a second direction, moving the focus indicator to a third location; while the focus indicator is at a fourth location, detecting liftoff of the gesture; and in response to detecting the liftoff, maintaining display of the focus indicator at the fourth location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Hannah Morgan, Patrick W. Demasco, Leland J. Jansen, Sergei Klimov
  • Patent number: 12021628
    Abstract: An electronic device (such as an access point) is described. This electronic device transmits an orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) frame to a recipient electronic device (such as a client or a station). The OFDMA frame includes multiple predefined resource units (RUs) allocated to the recipient electronic device in a set of predefined RUs having associated frequency bandwidths. Moreover, the multiple predefined RUs include two or more first predefined RUs having a first number of tones less than a predefined amount, or two or more second predefined RUs having a second number of tones greater than or equal to the predefined amount. For example, the predefined amount may include 242 tones. Note that the multiple predefined RUs may have the same or different numbers of tones. Moreover, the electronic may receive an acknowledgment or a block acknowledgment from the recipient electronic device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Tianyu Wu, Yong Liu, Jinjing Jiang, Jarkko L. Kneckt, Lochan Verma, Qi Wang, Su Khiong Yong, Anuj Batra
  • Patent number: 12019750
    Abstract: Systems and methods for providing updates to an electronic device are provided. Upon receiving an update statement, indicating availability of an update to an application on an electronic device, a determination is made as to whether an update notification threshold has been met at the electronic device based upon the indication of availability of the update to the application. When the update notification threshold has been met at the electronic device, a graphical indication of the availability of the update to the application is provided. However, when the update notification threshold has not been met, the graphical indication of the availability of the update to the application is not provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Sean B. Kelly, Elizabeth Caroline Furches Cranfill, Thomas Alsina
  • Patent number: 12019477
    Abstract: In at least one example, an electronic device can include a display film and a retention assembly for the display film. The retention assembly can include an aperture defined by the display film with the display film encircling the aperture. The retention assembly can further include a post extending towards the aperture and a bracket having a first portion adhered to the display film and a second portion abutting the post.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Yu-Po Chang, Chun Chih Cheng, Mandy Wong, Marianna C. Sbordone
  • Patent number: 12017508
    Abstract: A climate control system includes a front-end or first heat exchanger configured to thermally condition airflow from an environment external to a cabin, a rear-end or second heat exchanger configured to thermally condition airflow from the cabin, a recirculation path configured to return airflow from the second heat exchanger to the cabin, and an extraction path configured to vent airflow from the second heat exchanger to the environment external to the cabin. Various operational modes of the climate control system direct airflow to either the recirculation path or the extraction path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Paul D. Yeomans, John M. Kearney, Justin T. Krull, Scott Wujek, Kegan J. Connick
  • Patent number: 12021588
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and circuitries for configuring, measuring, and reporting channel state information are described. In one embodiment, an apparatus for a user equipment device (UE) includes processors configured to determine first channel state information (CSI) reference signal (RS) resource associated with a serving cell for the UE and determine a second CSI-RS resource associated with a non-serving cell for the UE. A first reference signal received in the first CSI-RS resource and a second reference signal received in the second CSI-RS resource are measured. First report quantities characterizing a channel between the UE and the serving cell are calculated based on the measurement of the first reference signal and second report quantities characterizing a channel between the UE and the non-serving cell are calculated based on the measurement of the second reference signal. The first and second report quantities are reported to the serving cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Bishwarup Mondal, Yushu Zhang, Alexei Davydov, Gregory V. Morozov, Victor Sergeev
  • Patent number: 12017498
    Abstract: A mass damper system includes an unsprung mass, a sprung mass, a suspension component that supports the sprung mass with respect to the unsprung mass, and a damper mass that is connected to the unsprung mass. Motion control components are connected to the sprung mass and a fluid-operated system that transfers forces between the motion control components and the damper mass to regulate motion of the damper mass with respect to the unsprung mass.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Samuel G. Fowle, Jacob L Dawson, Jeffrey K. Mock, Islam Mohsen Shawki
  • Patent number: 12022493
    Abstract: Embodiments described herein relate to managing access to 5G cellular baseband resources for 5G-capable wireless devices. A wireless device can monitor application workloads by analyzing communication network performance requirements for a given application in-use or launching for future use along with system-level indications of overall device usage, battery level, and mobility status to determine whether access to 5G cellular baseband resources is recommended for an application. A 5G cellular baseband resource recommendation is provided for an application indicating a level of bandwidth in current use or expected for future use as well as a confidence metric in the bandwidth level indication. The 5G cellular baseband resource recommendation is used with additional device criteria to determine whether access to one or more 5G radio frequency bands is allowed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Madhusudan Chaudhary, Arun G. Mathias, Rajesh Ambati, Ajay Singh, Franco Travostino, Muthukumaran Dhanapal, Lakshmi N. Kavuri, Ajoy K. Singh, Thanigaivelu Elangovan, Ioannis Pefkianakis, Raghuveer Mallikarjunan, Faraz Faheem, Geoffrey R. Hall, Harshit Chuttani, Rohan C. Malthankar, Prashant H. Vashi, Hisham A. Mahmoud, Henri S. Berger, Divyaprakash P. Bhojkumar
  • Patent number: 12020179
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method includes providing, to a client system of a user, a user interface for display. The user interface may include a first set of options for selecting an artificial intelligence (AI) task for integrating into a user application, a second set of options for selecting one or more devices on which the user wants to deploy the selected AI task, and a third set of options for selecting one or more performance constraints specific to the selected devices. User specifications may be received based on user selections in the first, second, and third sets of options. A custom AI model may be generated based on the user specifications and sent to the client system of the user for integrating into the user application. The custom AI model once integrated may enable the user application to perform the selected AI task on the selected devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Alexander James Oscar Craver Kirchhoff, Ali Farhadi, Anish Jnyaneshwar Prabhu, Carlo Eduardo Cabanero Del Mundo, Daniel Carl Tormoen, Hessam Bagherinezhad, Matthew S. Weaver, Maxwell Christian Horton, Mohammad Rastegari, Robert Stephen Karl, Jr., Sophie Lebrecht
  • Patent number: 12020380
    Abstract: A computer system displays a representation of a previously-captured media item, which includes or is associated with depth information corresponding to a physical environment in which the media item was captured. While displaying the representation of the media item, the system receives, via one or more input devices, one or more inputs corresponding to a request to display a representation of a measurement corresponding to a respective portion of the physical environment captured in the media item, and, in response, the system displays the representation of the measurement over at least a portion of the representation of the media item that corresponds to the respective portion of the physical environment, based on the depth information, and a label corresponding to the representation of the measurement that describes the measurement based on the depth information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Joseph A. Malia, Praveen Sharma, Mark K. Hauenstein
  • Patent number: 12022302
    Abstract: A method for performing spatial sharing between an existing SP and a candidate SP includes transmitting a first measurement request to an STA involved in the candidate SP carrying measurement configuration information for measurement over primary tier 1 channel of a tier 2 channel. The measurement configuration information includes the method that is to be used for the requested measurement, the measurement start time, the measurement duration, the number of time blocks within the measurement duration, the number of concurrent measurements to be performed using plural RX antenna configurations, and the method for reporting results of plural concurrent measurements, wherein the duration of each time block is the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Masataka Irie, Lei Huang, Hong Cheng Michael Sim
  • Patent number: 12022463
    Abstract: Systems, devices, and techniques for physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) resource grouping in wireless communication systems that include transmission and reception points (TRPs) are described. A described technique performed by a user equipment (UE) includes receiving a PUCCH resource group configuration associated with TRPs, including a first TRP and a second TRP; and performing PUCCH transmissions to the TRPs in accordance with the PUCCH resource group configuration. The PUCCH resource group configuration can include a configuration for a first group of PUCCH resources associated with the first TRP and a second group of PUCCH resources associated with the second TRP.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Bishwarup Mondal, Gang Xiong, Yushu Zhang
  • Patent number: 12021966
    Abstract: A mobile network operator (MNO) uses a provisioning server to update or install profile content in a profile or electronic subscriber identity module (eSIM). In an exemplary embodiment, the profile is present on a secure element such as an embedded universal integrated circuit card (eUICC) in a wireless device. One or more MNOs use the provisioning server to perform profile content management on profiles in the eUICC. In some embodiments, an MNO has a trust relationship with the provisioning server. In some other embodiments, the MNO does not have a trust relationship with the provisioning server and protects payload targeted for an MNO-associated profile using an over the air (OTA) key.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventor: Xiangying Yang
  • Patent number: 12021791
    Abstract: Apparatuses, systems, and methods for determination and scheduling for multiple PDSCH/PUSCH operations in wireless communication, e.g., in 5G NR systems and beyond, including methods for separate HARQ-ACK sub-codebook operation, for collision handling between PDSCH/PUSCH with TDD configurations, and for multi-PXSCH scheduling signaling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Hong He, Chunhai Yao, Chunxuan Ye, Dawei Zhang, Haitong Sun, Huaning Niu, Oghenekome Oteri, Wei Zeng, Weidong Yang
  • Patent number: 12022398
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide techniques for reducing radio resource management (RRM) measurements and user equipment (UE) power consumption in a wireless cellular network. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Candy Yiu, Marta Martinez Tarradell, Jie Cui, Hong He, Kyeongin Jeong
  • Patent number: 12018957
    Abstract: Some embodiments provide a mapping application that provides a variety of UI elements for allowing a user to specify a location (e.g., for viewing or serving as route destinations). In some embodiments, these location-input UI elements appear in succession on a sequence of pages, according to a hierarchy that has the UI elements that require less user interaction appear on earlier pages in the sequence than the UI elements that require more user interaction. In some embodiments, the location-input UI elements that successively appear in the mapping application include (1) selectable predicted-destination notifications, (2) a list of selectable predicted destinations, (3) a selectable voice-based search affordance, and (4) a keyboard.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Bradford A. Moore, Joshua C. Weinberg, Jorge Fino, Mark B. Larus, Sarah G. Barbour
  • Patent number: 12022391
    Abstract: A user equipment (UE) is grouped into a paging subgroup for the purposes of receiving pages from a network. The UE receives, from the network, a paging configuration for a Radio Resource Control (RRC) idle state or an RRC inactive state paging operation, the paging configuration comprising a paging subgroup identification for the UE and monitors paging occasions based on at least the paging subgroup identification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Sethuraman Gurumoorthy, Fangli Xu, Haijing Hu
  • Patent number: 12017275
    Abstract: A method of forming a unitary sintered body can include cutting a first portion and a second portion from a sheet of feedstock. The feedstock can include ceramic or metallic particles suspended in a binder. The first portion can be positioned in contact with the second portion and the portions can be sintered together to form the unitary body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Hoishun Li, Brian M. Gable
  • Patent number: D1032259
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jody Akana, 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, Matthew Dean Rohrbach, Peter Russell-Clarke, Benjamin Andrew Shaffer, Mikael Silvanto, Christopher J. Stringer, Eugene Antony Whang, Rico Zörkendörfer
  • Patent number: D1032652
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Thalia Jimena Echevarria Fiol, Grant R. Paul, Eric Lance Wilson