Patents Assigned to Apple
  • Patent number: 12032519
    Abstract: Tags for transaction records can be generated to represent characteristics of the transaction records not represented by typical characteristics of the records. Once generated, the transaction records can be modified to include the tags. Responsive to requests for transaction information, a set of transactions can be identified based on tags of the transactions and information about the transactions can be provided to a user interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Michael A. Minar, Yiran Kang, Fadi S. Obeid, Rachel Reddy, Rima Kakarla, Anuj Chaudhary, Anish Doshi, Julien Barlerin, Michael Artemiw, Richard W. Heard, Ashish C. Nagre
  • Patent number: 12034657
    Abstract: The implementations disclosed provide apparatus, systems, and methods for downlink control information (DCI) enhancement for a reduced-complexity new radio (NR) wireless device. The wireless device includes one or more processors configured to transmit a type of the wireless device to a base station communicatively coupled to the wireless device. A format of the DCI is received from the base station. The DCI includes multiple bit strings indicating a schedule of a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) or a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH). The format specifies a respective number of bits for each bit string. The format is defined by the base station based on the type of the wireless device. The DCI is received from the base station using a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH). The multiple bit strings are extracted from the DCI based on the format of the DCI.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Chunhai Yao, Chunxuan Ye, Dawei Zhang, Fangli Xu, Haijing Hu, Haitong Sun, Hong He, Jie Cui, Oghenekome Oteri, Weidong Yang, Wei Zeng, Yang Tang, Yuchul Kim, Yuqin Chen, Yushu Zhang
  • Patent number: 12035159
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to systems and methods for determining a starting point of a measurement gap. For example, the present disclosure is directed to a user equipment (UE) that includes a memory and processor circuitry coupled to the memory. The processor circuitry may be configured to receive an indication of a measurement gap timing advance. The processor circuitry may be further configured to, based on the indication of the measurement gap timing advance, determine a starting point of a measurement gap in a dual connectivity mode that provides dual connectivity with a new radio (NR) and an evolved universal mobile telecommunications system terrestrial radio access (EUTRA). The NR may serve as a master Radio Access Network (RAN) and the EUTRA may serve as a secondary RAN. The processor circuitry may also be configured to perform a signal quality measurement during the measurement gap, wherein the signal quality measurement is performed on a target cell of the NR or EUTRA.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jie Cui, Yang Tang, Qiming Li, Yuhan Zhou, Hong He
  • Patent number: 12035241
    Abstract: Embodiments are provided for resource monitoring and power saving in a user equipment (UE) operating according to a discontinuous reception (DRX) in new radio (NR) wireless communication system. The UE, operating in the DRX mode, monitors for a wake up occasion in control signal prior to the DRX ON time. If the wake occasion is detected, then the EFE monitors for a channel state information (CSI) resource signal (RS) prior to the DRX ON time. If no wake up occasion is detected, then at least a portion of the UE remains in a sleep mode prior to DRX ON time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Toufiqul Islam, Hong He, Qiaoyang Ye, Gregory Ermolaev
  • Patent number: 12032552
    Abstract: This application relates to features for a mobile device that allow the mobile device to assign utility values to applications and thereafter suggest applications for a user to execute. The suggested application can be derived from a list of applications that have been assigned a utility by software in the mobile device. The utility assignment of the individual applications from the list of applications can be performed based on the occurrence of an event, an environmental change, or a period of frequent application usage. A feedback mechanism is provided in some embodiments for more accurately assigning a utility to particular applications. The feedback mechanism can track what a user does during a period of suggestion for certain applications and thereafter modify the utility of applications based on what applications a user selects during the period of suggestion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Stephen C. Peters, Kit-Man Wan, Gaurav Kapoor
  • Patent number: 12035381
    Abstract: Disclosed are methods, systems, apparatus, and computer programs for establishing a data path between an access node and a donor node of an integrated access and backhaul (IAB) network. In one aspect, a method includes selecting a subset of the plurality of nodes to establish the data path, where the subset of nodes includes the access node and one or more intermediate nodes that link the access node to the donor node, and where the one or more intermediate nodes include a final intermediate node that is coupled to the donor node via a donor-node backhaul bearer, establishing an access link bearer that couples a user equipment (UE) to the access node, establishing respective backhaul link bearers between the subset of nodes, and mapping a final one of the respective backhaul link bearers to the donor-node backhaul link bearer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventor: Honglei Miao
  • Patent number: 12035394
    Abstract: A technique for determining that a wireless device supports using multiple subscriber identity module (SIM) cards to establish multiple connections to wireless networks, generating a multi-SIM capability message, and transmitting the multi-SIM capability message to a first wireless network. In another aspect, a technique for a wireless system to receive a multi-SIM capability message from a wireless device, determine a connection configuration of the wireless device based on the received multi-SIM capability message, and transmit an indication of the configured connection to the wireless device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Sethuraman Gurumoorthy, Fangli Xu, Adesh Kumar, Birgit Breining, Dawei Zhang, Haijing Hu, Longda Xing, Naveen Kumar R. Palle Venkata, Srirang A. Lovlekar, Yuqin Chen, Zhibin Wu
  • Patent number: 12033075
    Abstract: This application relates to use of transformer neural networks to generate dynamic parameters for use in convolutional neural networks. In various embodiments, received image data is encoded and the encoded signal is sent to both a decoder and a transformer neural network. The decoder outputs a decoded data for input into a convolutional neural network. The transformer outputs a set of dynamic parameter values for input into the convolutional neural network. The convolutional neural network may use the decoded data and the set of dynamic parameter values to output instance image data show identifying a number of objects in an image. In various embodiments, the decoded data is also used to generate semantic data. The semantic data may be combined with the instance data to form panoptic image data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventor: Atila Orhon
  • Patent number: 12035399
    Abstract: The disclosure is directed to a system and method of operating a user equipment (UE) to make the new radio (NR) carrier aggregation more effective. The system and method can include at least: receiving a release message confirming release of the UE from a base station, the release message including Long Term Evolution radio access technology (RAT) frequencies and New Radio (NR) RAT frequencies; measuring during an IDLE state, the LTE RAT frequencies and the NR RAT frequencies; transmitting a resume request message to the base station, the resume request message including an indication of a measurement report available from the UE, the measurement report including frequency measurements for the LTE RAT frequencies and the NR RAT frequencies; and after a security setup with the base station, transmitting a resume complete message to the base station, the resume complete message including the measurement report with the LTE RAT frequency measurements and NR RAT frequency measurements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Naveen Palle, Youn Hyoung Heo, Anthony Lee
  • Patent number: 12033296
    Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to creating and editing avatars, and navigating avatar selection interfaces. In some examples, an avatar feature user interface includes a plurality of feature options that can be customized to create an avatar. In some examples, different types of avatars can be managed for use in different applications. In some examples, an interface is provided for navigating types of avatars for an application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Nicolas Scapel, Guillaume P. Barlier, Alan C. Dye, Joseph D. Gardner, Aurelio Guzman, Christopher Wilson
  • Patent number: 12033636
    Abstract: This relates to an intelligent automated assistant in a video communication environment. An example includes, during a video communication session between at least two devices, receiving a voice input at one device, generating and transmitting to a server a textual representation of the voice input, receiving from the server a shared transcription including both the textual representation of the voice input and one or more additional textual representations generated by another device, and determining and presenting one or more candidate tasks based on the shared transcription.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Niranjan Manjunath, Willem Mattelaer, Jessica Peck, Lily Shuting Zhang
  • Patent number: 12035361
    Abstract: A user equipment is configured to connect to a base station (BS) over a shared channel subject to channel access operations. The UE receives a first configuration for a BS-initiated fixed frame period (FFP) (BS-FFP) and a second configuration for a UE-initiated FFP (UE-FFP), determines that no downlink (DL) transmissions are detected during a predefined time of the BS-FFP and determines that at least one condition associated with an uplink (UL) transmission is satisfied. When no downlink (DL) transmissions are detected during the predefined time of the BS-FFP and the at least one condition is satisfied, the UE performs a UE-initiated channel access operation. When the UE-initiated channel access operation is successful, the UE performs the UL transmission during the UE-FFP.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Hong He, Chunhai Yao, Chunxuan Ye, Dawei Zhang, Haitong Sun, Jie Cui, Oghenekome Oteri, Sigen Ye, Wei Zeng, Weidong Yang, Yang Tang, Yushu Zhang
  • Patent number: 12035345
    Abstract: Embodiments of this disclosure include apparatuses and methods for data channel mapping type and demodulation reference signal (DM-RS) configuration to enable a physical layer (L1) crosslink interference (CLI) measurement and reporting. Some embodiments are direct to a method of operating a base station (BS), where the method can include generating, by the BS, a demodulation reference signal (DM-RS), determining, by the BS, a position of the DM-RS in a first transmission slot, transmitting, by the BS, the DM-RS to a UE based on the determined position in the first transmission slot, processing, by the BS, a crosslink interference (CLI) measurement fed back based on the DM-RS, wherein the CLI measurement fed back is in a channel state information (CSI) report, and performing, by the BS, a CLI mitigation based on the CLI measurement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Dawei Ying, Hassan Ghozlan, Qian Li, Geng Wu
  • Patent number: 12034713
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products, for secure authentication for accessing remote resources are disclosed. In some implementations, a user is authenticated for a first time on an interface using a first communications channel; the user is authenticated a second time on the interface using a second communications channel; access privileges are determined based on authenticating the user for the second time; and a random Uniform Resource Locator (URL) is generated based on the access privileges, where the random URL is single-use and indirectly associated with a requested resource.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Anton Franz Linecker, Yuval Kossovsky, Martin Libich
  • Patent number: 12034531
    Abstract: Systems, apparatuses, methods, and computer-readable media are provided for use in a wireless network for dynamic indication of soft resource availability. Some embodiments are directed to an apparatus in an Integrated Access and Backhaul (IAB) node. The apparatus includes processor circuitry and radio front circuitry. The radio front end circuitry can be configured to receive, from a second IAB node, a slot format indicator (SFI). The SFI can include a slot format entry including a soft symbol indicating availability of a soft resource. The processor circuitry can be configured to use the slot format entry to communicate with a third IAB node, different from the second IAB node, using the soft resource as indicated by the soft symbol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Lili Wei, Qian Li, Dawei Ying, Gang Xiong, Debdeep Chatterjee, Geng Wu
  • Patent number: 12035313
    Abstract: Provided are a radio transmission apparatus and a radio transmission method whereby the increase of number of signaling bits can be suppressed and further the flexibility of frequency scheduling can be improved. A notified RBG calculating unit (203) that adds a predetermined offset value of “1” or “?1” to one of the start RBG number and the end RBG number of allocated RBG number information (b?i) output by a scheduling unit (201), thereby calculating notified RBG number information (bi). An RBG total number setting unit (204) calculates the total number of RBGs, which is to be notified, by adding “1” to the total number of allocated RBGs. A notified information generating unit (205) applies the notified RBG number information (bi) and the notified total number of RBGs (Nrb?) to a predetermined formula, thereby generating and transmitting, to terminals, notified information (r).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Takashi Iwai, Daichi Imamura, Akihiko Nishio, Yoshihiko Ogawa, Shinsuke Takaoka
  • Patent number: D1034502
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 9, 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, 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: D1034541
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Vijay Karthik Koneru, Christopher Wiita, Duy P. Le, Robert Boyd, Sean Stewart Corbin, Guillaume Raoult, Elvin Chu, Martin Gschwandtl, Christopher Kuh, Robert Brunner
  • Patent number: D1034606
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jody Akana, Molly Anderson, Bartley K. Andre, Shota Aoyagi, Anthony Michael Ashcroft, John J. Baker, Marine C. Bataille, Jeremy Bataillou, Markus Diebel, Richard Hung Minh Dinh, Michael Walter Firka, M. Evans Hankey, Julian Hoenig, Richard P. Howarth, Jonathan P. Ive, Julian Jaede, Duncan Robert Kerr, Benjamin J. Pope, Peter Russell-Clarke, Benjamin Andrew Shaffer, Mikael Silvanto, Sung-Ho Tan, Clement Tissandier, Eugene Antony Whang, Yaocheng Zhang, Rico Zörkendörfer
  • Patent number: D1034686
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Arian Behzadi, Lynne Devine, Alan C. Dye, Jonathan P. Ive, Pedro Mari, Nicole R. Ryan, Eric Lance Wilson