Patents Assigned to Apple
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Patent number: 11924888Abstract: Techniques discussed herein can facilitate inactive state transmissions for a Base Station (BS) via a 4-step or 2-step inactive state RACH process. One example aspect is a BS comprising: communication circuitry; and one or more processors communicatively coupled to the communication circuitry and configured to: receive, via the communication circuitry, a message 1 (Msg1) or a message A (MsgA) preamble based on a Random Access Channel (RACH) configuration for a Radio Resource Control (RRC) inactive data transmission; receive, via the communication circuitry, a message 3 (Msg3) or a MsgA Physical Uplink Shared Channel (PUSCH) comprising uplink (UL) data via configured resources; and transmit, via the communication circuitry, a message 4 (Msg4) or a message B (MsgB) in response to the Msg3 or the MsgA PUSCH.Type: GrantFiled: August 6, 2020Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Fangli Xu, Chunhai Yao, Dawei Zhang, Haijing Hu, Longda Xing, Murtaza A. Shikari, Sarma V. Vangala, Srinivasan Nimmala, Wei Zeng
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Patent number: 11924832Abstract: Systems, methods, and circuitries are provided for performing sidelink communication. An example method generates SCI stage 1 and stage 2 for transmitting a transport block (TB) to a user equipment device (UE). The method includes determining the type of sidelink communication for transmitting the TB. An SCI stage 2 format is selected based on the type of sidelink communication. An SCI stage 2 payload is encoded in accordance with the selected SCI stage 2 format. The selected SCI stage 2 format value is encoded in an SCI stage 1 payload. The SCI stage 1 payload and SCI stage 2 payload are transmitted to the UE.Type: GrantFiled: February 12, 2020Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Chunhai Yao, Chunxuan Ye, Wei Zeng, Yushu Zhang, Oghenekome Oteri, Weidong Yang, Hong He, Haitong Sun, Yang Tang, Jie Cui, Yuchul Kim, Dawei Zhang, Jia Tang
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Patent number: 11922518Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to contact management and communication with contacts. On a portable electronic device having a display a plurality of affordances associated with a plurality of contacts are displayed. A first user input is received selecting a first affordance of the plurality of affordances for a first contact of the plurality of contacts. In response to receiving the first user input and in accordance with a determination that a first communication application is in a set of communication applications installed on the portable electronic device, a contact information interface is displayed for the first contact. The contact information interface includes a first contact identification field for the first contact. The first contact identification field is associated with the first contact and the first communication application.Type: GrantFiled: February 10, 2023Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Marcel Van Os, Sebastian Bauer, Tiffany S. Jon, Nicole R. Ryan
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Patent number: 11924478Abstract: Systems and methods for improving determination of encoded image data using a video encoding pipeline, which includes a first transcode engine that entropy encodes a first portion of a bin stream to determine a first bit stream including first encoded image data that indicates a first coding group row and that determines first characteristic data corresponding to the first bit stream to facilitate communicating a combined bit stream; and a second transcode engine that entropy encodes a second portion of the bin stream to determine a second bit stream including second encoded image data that indicates a second coding group row while the first transcode engine entropy encodes the first portion of the bin stream and that determines second characteristic data corresponding to the second bit stream to facilitate communicating the combined bit stream, which includes the first bit stream and the second bit stream, to a decoding device.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2023Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Jim C. Chou, Syed Muhammad A. Rizvi
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Patent number: 11921980Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for displaying notifications received from multiple applications. In some embodiments, an electronic device can monitor notifications that are received from the multiple applications. Responsive to receiving the notifications, the electronic device can control the manner in which the notifications are displayed while the device is operating in a locked or an unlocked state. In some embodiments, the electronic device can allow users to customize how notifications are to be displayed while the device is in the locked and/or unlocked states.Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 2022Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Imran Chaudhri, Eliza Block
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Patent number: 11923134Abstract: A flexible magnetic component can include a magnetizable powder including a rare earth element. The flexible magnetic component can also include a polymer binder. The flexible magnetic component can define a first surface and a second surface opposite the first surface. A first magnetic field adjacent to the first surface can have a field strength at least 3 times greater than a field strength of a second magnetic field adjacent to the second surface, and the flexible magnetic component can elongate greater than 20% before a permanent deformation occurs.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 2019Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventor: Qigen Ji
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Patent number: 11922408Abstract: A system for provisioning credentials onto an electronic device is provided. The system may include a payment network subsystem, a service provider subsystem, a primary user device, and a secondary user device. The user may select a particular payment card to provision onto the secondary user device by providing an input at the primary user device. A broker module running on the service provider subsystem may then transfer a disabled pass to the secondary user device. Concurrently, the payment network subsystem may direct a trusted service manager module on the service provider subsystem to write credential information onto a secure element within the secondary user device. Once the secure element has been updated, the broker module may provide an activated pass to the secondary user device so that the secondary user device can be used to perform NFC-based financial transactions at a merchant terminal.Type: GrantFiled: April 23, 2021Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Jeremy T. Brown, George R. Dicker, Glen W. Steele, Morgan J. Grainger, Zachary A. Rosen
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Patent number: 11921640Abstract: A cache may store critical cache lines and non-critical cache lines, and may attempt to retain critical cache lines in the cache by, for example, favoring the critical cache lines in replacement data updates, retaining the critical cache lines with a certain probability when victim cache blocks are being selected, etc. Criticality values may be retained at various levels of the cache hierarchy. Additionally, accelerated eviction may be employed if the threads previously accessing the critical cache blocks are viewed as dead.Type: GrantFiled: April 22, 2022Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Tyler J. Huberty, Vivek Venkatraman, Sandeep Gupta, Eric J. Furbish, Srinivasa Rangan Sridharan, Stephan G. Meier
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Patent number: 11923739Abstract: An electric motor includes an end turn ring and a cooling structure that is in a thermally conductive relationship with the end turn ring.Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 2022Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: Dillon J. Thomasson, Kan Zhou, Rui Guan, Yateendra B. Deshpande, William M. Price
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Patent number: 11921839Abstract: Techniques are disclosed relating to sharing a user credential between computing devices. In some embodiments, a first computing device stores a set of user credentials usable to authenticate a user and receives, from a second computing device, a request for a user credential to be provided responsive to an authentication prompt associated with the second computing device. In such an embodiment, the request includes an indication of a service for which the authentication prompt is being presented. Based on the indication, the first computing device determines whether the stored set of user credentials includes a user credential relevant to the authentication prompt and presents a selection prompt asking a user of the first computing device to select a one of the stored set of user credentials to provide to the second computing device for authentication to the service, the relevant user credential being identified in the selection prompt.Type: GrantFiled: April 2, 2021Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Richard J. Mondello, Chelsea E. Pugh, Maureen G. Daum, Morgan H. Winer, Shuchen Li
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Publication number: 20240072651Abstract: The present disclosure describes a circuit having a current source and a load circuit coupled to the current source. The current source can include a transistor electrically coupled to a voltage supply and can be configured to generate a first current with a first current rate-of-change during a time interval, where the first current can be a cancellation current. In addition, the load circuit can be configured to generate a second current with a second current rate-of-change during the same time interval, where the second current can be a load current. The second current rate-of-change can be substantially an inverse of the first current rate-of-change. A power system can include a power management unit configured to generate a power supply voltage at an output, a current source and a load circuit electrically coupled to the output, and a control circuit controls the first current rate-of-change during the time interval.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 25, 2022Publication date: February 29, 2024Applicant: Apple Inc.Inventors: Meei-Ling CHIANG, Khaled M. ALASHMOUNY, Zhi HU
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Publication number: 20240073316Abstract: Ranging between a primary electronic device and a secondary electronic device can be used to control functional states for the electronic devices. One or more functions of a primary electronic device can be controlled based on the location of a secondary electronic device. The secondary electronic device can be a mobile device or a wearable computer, and the secondary device's location can be a proxy for a user's position. The functions, that are enabled or disabled, can be functions that are related to the user's use and enjoyment of the primary device.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 28, 2023Publication date: February 29, 2024Applicant: APPLE INC.Inventors: Abdelkareem A. Bedri, Gierad Laput, Runchang Kang
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Publication number: 20240073812Abstract: Some aspects of this disclosure include apparatuses and methods for implementing a hibernation mode for multi-link wireless communication networks such as a wireless local area network (WLAN). For example, some aspects relate to a multi-link device (MLD) including a first station (STA) associated with a first link of a wireless network and configured to communicate with a second MLD over the first link. The MLD also includes a second STA associated with a second link of the wireless network. The second STA is in a hibernation mode. The MLD also includes one or more processors communicatively coupled to the first and second STAs and configured to control operations of the first and second STAs.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 23, 2023Publication date: February 29, 2024Applicant: Apple Inc.Inventors: Yong LIU, Su Khiong YONG, Qi WANG, Tianyu WU, Lochan VERMA, Jinjing JIANG, Jarkko L. KNECKT
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Publication number: 20240074066Abstract: Various embodiments of a mold cavity structure of a transfer molding system are disclosed. The transfer molding system includes a first mold-forming structure and a second mold-forming structure. The second mold-forming structure includes a mold cavity. The mold cavity includes a gate region, a component region, and a vent region. The component region is configured to enclose an electrical component. A volume of the vent region is adjustable. The transfer molding system further includes an inlet port coupled to the gate region and configured to direct a flow of a molding compound into the mold cavity during an operation of the transfer molding system.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 5, 2023Publication date: February 29, 2024Applicant: Apple Inc.Inventors: Nitesh KUMBHAT, Yanfeng Chen, Mandar S. Painaik, Shankar S. Pennathur, Pierpaolo Lupo
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Publication number: 20240073576Abstract: An in-ear headphone that includes a device housing that defines an interior cavity; a primary acoustic port formed through the device housing; an acoustic driver disposed within the device housing and aligned to emit sound through the primary acoustic port; a deformable ear tip having a sound channel formed through its length and coupled to the device housing such that the sound channel is aligned with the primary acoustic port; and a magnetic alignment system comprising a first set of magnets coupled to the device housing and a second set of magnets coupled to the deformable ear tip, the magnetic alignment system configured to removably couple the deformable ear tip to the device housing and align the ear tip so that it can only be coupled to the device housing in a single orientation.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 1, 2023Publication date: February 29, 2024Applicant: APPLE INC.Inventors: Geng Luo, Shota Aoyagi, Timothy Emmott Torres, Sarah B. Gysbers, Qigen Ji
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Publication number: 20240073707Abstract: Aspects are described for a user equipment (UE) comprising a transceiver configured to enable wireless communication with a first transmission/reception point (TRP) and a second TRP and a processor communicatively coupled to the transceiver. The UE is in a multi-TRP mode. The processor is configured to perform a first beam failure detection (BFD) procedure for the first TRP and a second BFD procedure for the second TRP. The processor is further configured to perform a first beam failure recovery (BFR) procedure for the first TRP responsive to a result of the first BFD procedure and a second BFR for the second TRP responsive to a result of the second BFD procedure. The processor is further configured to receive a configuration message, a BFD configuration, and a BFR configuration. The UE switches to a single-TRP mode upon receiving the configuration message.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 11, 2021Publication date: February 29, 2024Applicant: Apple Inc.Inventors: Haitong SUN, Wie ZENG, Huaning NIU, Hong HE, Chunxuan YE, Seyed Ali Akbar FAKOORIAN, Oghenekome OTERI, Dawei ZHANG, Yushu ZHANG
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Publication number: 20240072973Abstract: The present application relates to devices and components including apparatus, systems, and methods to provide adaptive physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) monitoring. In particular, a unified signaling technique for adaptive PDCCH search space monitoring is descried. This signaling can indicate either one or a combination of the switching and skipping. In an example, the signaling includes multiple parts. In a first part, radio resource control (RRC) signaling is sent from the network to the device to configure the device for switching only, skipping only, or switching and skipping. In a second part, first DCI is sent from the network to the device to indicate the particular PDCCH monitoring configuration to use for the PDCCH search space monitoring. Thereafter, network sends second DCI in the relevant PDCCH search space, where this second DCI schedules traffic. The device performs blind decoding to determine the second DCI in order to exchange the traffic.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 7, 2022Publication date: February 29, 2024Applicant: Apple Inc.Inventors: Huaning Niu, Hongbo Yan, Dawei Zhang, Seyed Ali Akbar Fakoorian, Oghenekome Oteri, Sigen Ye, Weidong Yang, Wei Zeng, Hong He, Haitong Sun
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Publication number: 20240073856Abstract: Embodiments are disclosed for one-to-many and many-to-many ranging using narrowband assisted (NBA)-multi-millisecond (MMS) ultra wideband (UWB) protocols. Some embodiments include an initiator device that communicates with many responder devices. For example, the initiator device can transmit a control/initialization poll message via NB signaling that identifies a ranging cycle, and transmit a first set of MMS segments corresponding to the control/initialization poll message. The initiator device can receive a plurality of report frames from two or more responder devices via NB signaling subsequent to transmitting the first set of MMS segments, and transmit within the ranging cycle, a ranging results report message based at least on the plurality of report frames via narrowband signaling.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 21, 2023Publication date: February 29, 2024Applicant: Apple Inc.Inventors: Jinjing JIANG, Robert GOLSHAN, Yong LIU, Alexander KREBS, Lochan VERMA, Xiliang LUO, Su Khiong YONG
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Publication number: 20240070921Abstract: In an example method, a first data stream and a second data stream are obtained. Each of the first data stream and the second data stream includes one or more chunks. Further, a third data stream is generated. The third data stream includes the first data stream and the second data stream. Generating the third data stream includes inserting, in the third data stream, at least a portion of a first chunk of the second data stream between a beginning and an end of a second chunk of the first data stream. Further, the third data stream is provided for transmission or storage.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 10, 2021Publication date: February 29, 2024Applicant: APPLE INC.Inventor: David FLYNN
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Patent number: D1016782Type: GrantFiled: March 6, 2023Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Christopher Wiita, Robert Boyd, Duy P. Le, Carlos M. Santana