Patents Assigned to Apple
  • Patent number: 11586451
    Abstract: A method and apparatus of a device for resource management by using a hierarchy of resource management techniques with dynamic resource policies is described. The device terminates several misbehaving application programs when available memory on the device is running low. Each of those misbehaving application programs consumes more memory space than a memory consumption limit assigned to the application program. If available memory on the device is still low after terminating those misbehaving application programs, the device further sends memory pressure notifications to all application programs. If available memory on the device is still running low after sending the memory pressure notifications, the device further terminates background, idle, and suspended application programs. The device further terminates foreground application programs when available memory on the device is still low after terminating the background, idle, and suspended application programs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Andrew D. Myrick, Dmitriy B. Solomonov, Lionel D. Desai
  • Patent number: 11586427
    Abstract: An apparatus of a user equipment (UE) comprises a memory to store a Unified Radio Application and to store one or more configuration parameters for the Unified Radio Application, and one or more baseband processors to receive a radio application update from a remote server, and to update the Unified Radio Application via a Multiradio Interface (MURI) “updateRadioApps” operation with the received radio application update. One or more of the configuration parameters are maintained in the memory after the update.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventor: Markus Dominik Mueck
  • Patent number: 11586251
    Abstract: An electronic device may have a flexible display. The electronic device may have housing portions that are rotatably coupled to each other so that the flexible display may fold along one or more bend axes. A device may have rollers that store a flexible display and that help deploy the display from within a housing when additional display area is desired. A touch screen in a housing may be overlapped by a flexible display that has been scrolled outwardly from the housing. Wireless transmitter and receiver circuitry may be used to convey image data to display driver circuitry. The display driver circuitry may display images on a pixel array in a flexible display based on the image data. Magnets may be used to outwardly bias edge-mounted bistable support structures to help prevent a rolled flexible display from wrinkling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventor: Scott A. Myers
  • Patent number: 11583018
    Abstract: A metallic mesh material used to form a portion of a band or securing strap for a wearable electronic device. The band may include a magnetic tab for securing a wearable device to the wrist of a user. The tab may include one or magnetic elements that are configured to engage a surface of the mesh to secure the wearable device to the wrist of a user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Stephen E. Dey, Xingyu Wan, Justin T. Sawyer, Matthew N. Van Dyke, Hsiang Hung Chen
  • Patent number: 11588930
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer program products for delivery/read receipts for electronic messaging are disclosed. During one-on-one electronic messaging sessions in a conversation view format, only a single read receipt is shown only for the most recent message transmitted in the conversation. In some implementations, a delivery receipt is shown which then can be replaced or morphed into a read receipt. In a group conversation, a read receipt can be displayed for the recipient who most recently caught up in the ongoing conversation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Chanaka G. Karunamuni, Richard R. Dellinger
  • Patent number: 11587353
    Abstract: An electronic device may include a display layer including light transmissive portions and non-transmissive portions. The electronic device may also include a palm biometric image sensor layer beneath the display layer and configured to sense an image of a user's palm positioned above the display layer based upon light reflected from the user's palm passing through the light transmissive portions of the display layer. The electronic device may further include a controller configured to capture image data from the user's palm in cooperation with the palm biometric image sensor layer and determine a surface distortion of the user's palm based upon the image data. The controller may also be configured to perform a biometric authentication of the user's palm based upon the image data and the surface distortion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Dale R. Setlak, Giovanni Gozzini, Mohammad Yeke Yazdandoost
  • Patent number: 11588223
    Abstract: An electronic device may be provided with wireless circuitry. The wireless circuitry may include one or more antennas and transceiver circuitry such as millimeter wave transceiver circuitry. The antennas may be formed from metal traces on printed circuits. A flexible printed circuit may have an area on which the transceiver circuitry is mounted. Protruding portions may extend from the area on which the transceiver circuitry is mounted and may be separated from the area on which the transceiver circuitry is mounted by bends. Antenna resonating elements such as patch antenna resonating elements and dipole resonating elements may be formed on the protruding portions and may be used to transmit and receive millimeter wave antenna signals through dielectric-filled openings in a metal electronic device housing or a dielectric layer such as a display cover layer formed from glass or other dielectric.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Matthew A. Mow, Basim H. Noori, Ming-Ju Tsai, Xu Han, Victor C. Lee, Mattia Pascolini
  • Patent number: 11586348
    Abstract: A portable multifunction device displays a first user interface object and a second user interface object on a touch screen display. Upon detecting a finger-down event at the first user interface object and one or more finger-dragging events on the touch screen display, the device moves the first user interface object on the touch screen display along a path determined by the finger-dragging events until the first user interface object at least in part overlaps the second user interface object. Upon detecting a finger-up event at the second user interface object, the device visually replaces the second user interface object with the first user interface object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew Emilio Platzer, Charles J. Pisula, Imran Chaudhri, Steven P. Jobs, Gregory Christie, Scott Forstall, Stephen O. Lemay, Michael Matas, Gregory Novick, Marcel Van Os
  • Patent number: 11589245
    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: July 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Masataka Irie, Huang Lei, Michael Sim Hong Cheng
  • Patent number: 11589371
    Abstract: An apparatus configured to be employed in a gNodeB associated with a new radio (NR) system is disclosed. The apparatus comprises one or more processors configured to configure one or more sidelink sounding reference signals (SRS), for one or more user equipments (UEs) associated with the gNodeB, to be utilized by the one or more UEs for transmission or reception, or both, over sidelink. The one or more processors is further configured to generate one or more sidelink SRS configuration signals to be provided, respectively, to the one or more UEs, wherein each sidelink SRS configuration signal comprises sidelink SRS configuration information on the one or more sidelink SRS configured for a respective UE. The apparatus further comprises a radio frequency (RF) interface, configured to provide, to a radio frequency (RF) circuitry, the one or more sidelink SRS configuration signals, for subsequent transmission to the one or more UEs, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventor: Honglei Miao
  • Patent number: 11586153
    Abstract: Watch bands described herein include electrochromic features that provide adjustable color control based on an applied voltage to offer a variety of colors and color combinations to be displayed by a single band. The user or a control system can control, select, and/or adjust one or more colors of the watch band for visual display. Accordingly, a variety of colors can be displayed at different times without requiring different watch bands for each color or color combination. The color changing features can be used as a visual output of information from the watch to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Zhengyu Li, Chia Chi Wu, Chen Zhang, Qiliang Xu
  • Patent number: 11588751
    Abstract: Methods and devices for creating and operating a combined network and computational slice instance (NCSI) in a Multi-access Edge Computing (MEC) scenario. Communication and computational resources may be reserved by a NCSI controller for the NCSI. The communication resources may include network slices and the computational resources may include MEC computational resources of one or more MEC servers. The reserved resources may be selected based on quality of service (QoS) requirements of UEs that will utilize the NCSI. During operation, reserved resources for the NCSI may be dynamically renegotiated based on an aggregate load of the NCSI, the QoS of data traffic, and/or updated QoS requirements of the UEs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Mikhail Vilgelm, Babar Qaisrani, Biljana Badic, Christian Drewes, Krisztian Kiss, Matthias Sauer, Vijay Venkataraman, Ralph Hasholzner, Robert Zaus, Teck Yang Lee
  • Patent number: 11586551
    Abstract: Techniques are disclosed relating to managing storage array invalidations. A computer system may comprise a processor core configured to operate in an idle state and operate in a run state in which the processor core executes instructions. The computer system may further comprise a power management circuit that is configured to receive, while the processor core is in the idle state, a set of invalidation requests directed to the processor core to invalidate a set of entries of a storage array of the processor core. The power management circuit may store invalidation information indicative of the set of invalidation requests. The power management circuit may determine that the processor core has received a request to transition to the run state. Prior to the processor core operating in the run state, the power management circuit may invalidate the set of entries of the storage array based on the invalidation information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Sreevathsa Ramachandra, Christopher L. Colletti, David E. Kroesche
  • Patent number: 11587559
    Abstract: Systems and processes for intelligent device identification are provided. In one example process, audio input may be sampled with a microphone at each of two or more of the plurality of electronic devices. A first electronic device of the plurality of electronic devices for determining a task associated with sampled audio input may be identified. The process may determine the task based on the sampled audio input with the first electronic device and identify identifying a second electronic device of the plurality of electronic devices for performing the task. The task be performed with the second electronic device. The second electronic device is not the first electronic device in some examples.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Brandon J. Newendorp, Lia T. Napolitano
  • Patent number: 11588356
    Abstract: A wireless power transmission system comprising a wireless power transmitting device and a wireless power receiving device. The wireless power receiving device is configured to regulate power drawn during a power transfer phase to maintain a substantially steady power level that is less than or equal to a power consumption level demanded by an associated load. The wireless power transmitting device is configured to determine the presence of a foreign object by monitoring the power transmitted or the power received and identifying a characteristic change in steady state power indicative of the presence of a foreign object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventor: Jeffrey Douglas Louis
  • Patent number: 11586552
    Abstract: An apparatus includes a cache memory circuit configured to store a cache lines, and a cache controller circuit. The cache controller circuit is configured to receive a read request to an address associated with a portion of a cache line. In response to an indication that the portion of the cache line currently has at least a first sub-portion that is invalid and at least a second sub-portion that is modified relative to a version in a memory, the cache controller circuit is further configured to fetch values corresponding to the address from the memory, to generate an updated version of the portion of the cache line by using the fetched values to update the first sub-portion, but not the second sub-portion, of the portion of the cache line, and to generate a response to the read request that includes the updated version of the portion of the cache line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Ilya Granovsky, Tom Greenshtein
  • Patent number: 11586280
    Abstract: Embodiments are disclosed for head motion prediction for spatial audio applications. In an embodiment, a method comprises: obtaining motion data from a source device and a headset; obtaining transmission delays from a wireless stack of the source; estimating relative motion from the relative source device and headset motion data; calculating a first derivative of the relative motion data; forward predicting the estimated relative motion over the time delays using the first derivative and second derivative of relative motion; determining, using a head tracker, a head pose of the user based on the forward predicted relative motion data; and rendering, using the head pose, spatial audio for playback on the headset.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Evan G. Kriminger, Xiaoyuan Tu, Alexander Singh Alvarado
  • Patent number: D978856
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jody Akana, Molly Anderson, 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, Peter Russell-Clarke, Benjamin Andrew Shaffer, Mikael Silvanto, Christopher J. Stringer, Clement Tissandier, Eugene Antony Whang, Rico Zörkendörfer
  • Patent number: D978887
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Pablo F. Caro, Dmitri Cavander, Matthew Wagner Crowley, Allison W. Dryer, Alan C. Dye, Nicholas Felton, Charmian Naguit
  • Patent number: D978911
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Alan C. Dye, Lisa K. Forssell, Aurelio Guzmán, Nicolas V. Scapel, Christopher I. Wilson