Patents Assigned to Apple
  • Publication number: 20230035992
    Abstract: The present application relates to devices and components including apparatus, systems, and methods for mapping codewords to transmission layers and transmitting phase tracking reference signals in wireless networks.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2021
    Publication date: February 2, 2023
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Yushu Zhang, Chunxuan Ye, Dawei Zhang, Haitong Sun, Hong He, Huaning Niu, Oghenekome Oteri, Seyed Ali Akbar Fakoorian, Wei Zeng, Weidong Yang
  • Publication number: 20230036406
    Abstract: Aspects are described for a user equipment (UE) comprising a transceiver configured to enable wireless communication with a base station; and a processor communicatively coupled to the transceiver. The processor is configured to receive a sounding reference signal (SRS) resource configuration from the base station, wherein the SRS resource configuration indicates at least a first SRS resource and a second SRS resource. The processor is further configured to transmit a first SRS via the first SRS resource to the base station using a first antenna coupled to the transceiver and transmit a second SRS via the second SRS resource to the base station using a second antenna coupled to the transceiver.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2022
    Publication date: February 2, 2023
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Lijie ZHANG, Lele CUI, Aiman J. SANG, Yu WU, Yun GAO, Ying ZHANG, Zhiwei WANG, Qiang MIAO
  • Publication number: 20230031933
    Abstract: Embodiments are disclosed for group cast with retries (GCR) in a multi-link wireless communications system. In some embodiments, an access point (AP) multi-link device (MLD) can exchange information with a non-AP MLD to establish a GCR-multi-link operation (MLO) agreement corresponding to a group address, wherein the information includes, but is not limited to: a GCR primary link or a GCR primary link set of the AP MLD, an association identifier (AID) that corresponds to the group address. In some embodiments, the AP MLD can transmit a GCR frame subject to the GCR-MLO agreement, where the GCR frame includes a sequence number assigned from sequence number space (SNS)_GCR_MLO defined at a MLD level, and generate a Group Temporal Key (GTK)_GCR_ML at the MLD level, where the GTK_GCR_ML enables encryption and decryption of the GCR frame.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2022
    Publication date: February 2, 2023
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Qi WANG, Jarkko L. KNECKT, Yong LIU, Jinjing JIANG, Yoel BOGER, Tianyu WU, Su Khiong YONG
  • Publication number: 20230032665
    Abstract: Embodiments are disclosed for group cast with retries (GCR) in a multi-link wireless communications system. In some embodiments, an access point (AP) multi-link device (MLD) can exchange information with a non-AP MLD to establish a GCR-multi-link operation (MLO) agreement corresponding to a group address, wherein the information includes, but is not limited to: a GCR primary link or a GCR primary link set of the AP MLD, an association identifier (AID) that corresponds to the group address. In some embodiments, the AP MLD can transmit a GCR frame subject to the GCR-MLO agreement, where the GCR frame includes a sequence number assigned from sequence number space (SNS)_GCR_MLO defined at a MLD level, and generate a Group Temporal Key (GTK)_GCR_ML at the MLD level, where the GTK_GCR_ML enables encryption and decryption of the GCR frame.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2022
    Publication date: February 2, 2023
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Qi Wang, Jarkko L. Kneckt, Yong Liu, Jinjing Jiang, Yoel Boger, Tianyu Wu, Su Khiong Yong
  • Publication number: 20230036711
    Abstract: Described is an apparatus of a User Equipment (UE) operable to communicate with a fifth-generation Evolved Node-B (gNB) on a wireless network. The apparatus may comprise a first circuitry and a second circuitry. The first circuitry may be operable to process a message comprising an indicator to indicate a number of contention based physical random access channel (PRACH) preambles within a PRACH occasion per Synchronization Signal Block (SSB). The second circuitry may be operable to generate a first PRACH occasion, based on the indicator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2022
    Publication date: February 2, 2023
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Alexei DAVYDOV, Seunghee HAN, Gang XIONG, Gregory V. MOROZOV, Yushu ZHANG, Joonyoung CHO, Dae Won LEE, Yongjun KWAK
  • Publication number: 20230032356
    Abstract: The present application relates to a paging mechanism. In an example, a network can transmit SSBs periodically on multiple SSB beams. A UE can receive, during a DRX cycle, an SSB per detected SSB beam and perform SSB-based measurements. Based on these measurements, the UE can perform PDCCH monitoring and PDSCH decoding on at least two beams. The PDCCH monitoring can indicate a scheduled paging message from the network. The PDSCH decoding can allow the UE to determine the paging message.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2022
    Publication date: February 2, 2023
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Hongbo Yan, Amir Farajidana, Dietmar Gradl
  • Patent number: 11568039
    Abstract: Techniques are disclosed relating to credential managers. In some embodiments, a computing device maintains a credential manager that stores, in a protected manner, a set of credentials for authenticating a user and metadata about the credentials. The computing device stores an instance of the metadata externally to the credential manager. The computing device uses the externally stored metadata to determine whether the set of credentials includes a particular credential associated with a service and, in response to determining that the set of credentials includes the particular credential, displays an indication of the particular credential. In some embodiments, the computing device receives a selection of the displayed indication by the user and, in response to the selection, sends a request for the particular credential to the credential manager.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Reza Abbasian, Richard J. Mondello, David P. Quesada, Kyle C. Brogle, Patrick L. Coffman
  • Patent number: 11569858
    Abstract: A radio frequency device has a multifunctional tuner that stores measurements of reflection coefficient parameter in a register. The radio frequency device also has a transceiver that has a transmitter. The transceiver may detect a transmitter signal from the transmitter to an antenna in an initial tuning state and then determine whether the transmitter signal is stable. In response to the transmitter signal being stable, the transceiver may measuring the reflection coefficient parameters at the multifunctional tuner. Furthermore, the radio frequency device has a baseband controller that has a memory to store instructions and a processor to execute the instructions. The instructions cause the processor to determine an antenna impedance based on the reflection coefficient parameters, and in response to determining that the antenna impedance is greater than or less than a threshold antenna impedance, iteratively tune the antenna using the multifunctional tuner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Liang Han, Enrique Ayala Vazquez, Thomas E. Biedka, Hongfei Hu, Erdinc Irci, Nanbo Jin, James G. Judkins, Victor C. Lee, Matthew A. Mow, Mattia Pascolini, Ming-Ju Tsai, Yiren Wang, Yuancheng Xu, Yijun Zhou
  • Patent number: 11570033
    Abstract: Multiphase signal generation circuitry receives input signals that are out-of-phase with one another by a quadrature delay (e.g., 90°), and generates output signals that are out-of-phase with one another by half of the quadrature delay. A first input signal may be provided to a first delay circuitry, which is then input to a first phase interpolator. The first delay circuitry is also input to second delay circuitry, which also generates an output that is input to the first phase interpolator. The first phase interpolator outputs a first output signal. The second delay circuitry is input to third delay circuitry, which in turn is input to a second phase interpolator with a second input signal that is out-of-phase with the first input signal by the quadrature delay. The second phase interpolator outputs a second output signal that is out-of-phase with the first output signal by the half of the quadrature delay.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Damir Hamidovic, Harald Pretl, Peter Leopold Preyler
  • Patent number: 11570612
    Abstract: Techniques for flexible electronic subscriber identity module (eSIM) deployment to a wireless device by a network server, including generation of multiple eSIMs using an identical eSIM identifier value, such as an identical integrated circuit card identifier (ICCID) value, and subsequent selection of an eSIM based on capabilities of the wireless device. Multiple eSIMs that correspond to different sets of wireless device capabilities are generated without knowledge of the wireless communication standards that a wireless device supports. The multiple eSIMs include a first eSIM that includes fifth generation (5G) wireless communication protocol information and a second eSIM that excludes 5G wireless communication protocol information. The network server selects an eSIM from the multiple eSIMs based on whether the wireless device is 5G capable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Li Li, Najeeb M. Abdulrahiman, Arun G. Mathias
  • Patent number: 11569747
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for adding and shedding phases in a multi-phase power converter is disclosed. A power converter includes a plurality of voltage regulators including a given voltage regulator configured to generate, when active, a particular output voltage on a regulated power supply node. The power converter further includes a control circuit. The control circuit is configured determine an amount of output current being supplied to the regulated power supply node by active ones of the plurality of voltage regulator circuits. The control circuit is further configured to adjust a number of voltage regulator circuits that are active based on the output current and one or more environmental parameters associated with the plurality of voltage regulator circuits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jitendra K. Agrawal, Yue Wen
  • Patent number: 11569954
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure provide for indications of demodulation reference signal port groups and phase-tracking reference signal port indications. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Yushu Zhang, Alexei Davydov, Gang Xiong, Guolong Wang
  • Patent number: 11567644
    Abstract: In some embodiments, a cursor interacts with user interface objects on an electronic device. In some embodiments, an electronic device selectively displays a cursor in a user interface. In some embodiments, an electronic device displays a cursor while manipulating objects in the user interface. In some embodiments, an electronic device dismisses or switches applications using a cursor. In some embodiments, an electronic device displays user interface elements in response to requests to move a cursor beyond an edge of the display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Brandon M. Walkin, Dylan Ross Edwards, Marcos Alonso Ruiz, Stephen O. Lemay, Patrick L. Coffman
  • Patent number: 11567650
    Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to user interfaces for managing exposure notifications. In some embodiments, after enabling exposure notifications, an exposure notification is received; upon interacting with the notification: if an associated application is installed, a user interface of that application is displayed; if the associated application is not installed, a user interface object associated with a process to install the application is displayed. In some embodiments, an exposure notification management interface is displayed that includes a plurality of entities that have been authorized to provide notifications, along with a user interface object to disable transmission of data to those entities and to disable notifications from those entities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Matthew W. Crowley, Heather E. Daniel, Kevin Lynch
  • Patent number: 11567658
    Abstract: An electronic device detects an input via an input device. In response to detecting the input, the device monitors the input using a gesture recognition tree having a plurality of nodes. Each respective node of the gesture recognition tree corresponds to a respective gesture recognizer or a respective component gesture recognizer, and one or more nodes include one or more parameters that describe the input. Monitoring the input using the gesture recognition tree includes: processing the input using a first node of the plurality of nodes, including determining a value of a first parameter of the one or more parameters; conveying the first parameter from the first node to a second node of the plurality of nodes; and processing the input using the second node, including determining, based on the first parameter, whether the input satisfies a gesture recognition requirement defined by the second node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: John S. Harper, Jacob A. Xiao
  • Patent number: 11569721
    Abstract: A haptic actuator may include a housing having opposing first and second ends and first and second coils carried by the housing adjacent respective first and second ends thereof. Each coil may have a respective passageway therethrough. The actuator may include a field member including first and second masses adjacent respective first and second ends of the housing, and a permanent magnet having first and second ends coupled to respective ones of the first and second masses. The actuator may also include first and second flexures mounting respective first and second masses to the respective first and second ends of the housing so that the field member is reciprocally movable within the passageways of the coils responsive to powering the coils and so that the ends of the permanent magnet are within respective passageways of the coils when the coils are unpowered.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Yi-Heng Sen, Alex M. Lee, Alex J. Speltz
  • Patent number: D976895
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jody Akana, Molly Anderson, Bartley K. Andre, Shota Aoyagi, Anthony Michael Ashcroft, Marine C. Bataille, Jeremy Bataillou, Markus Diebel, M. Evans Hankey, Julian Hoenig, Richard P. Howarth, Jonathan P. Ive, Julian Jaede, Duncan Robert Kerr, Peter Russell-Clarke, Benjamin Andrew Shaffer, Mikael Silvanto, Sung-Ho Tan, Clement Tissandier, Eugene Antony Whang, Rico Zörkendörfer
  • Patent number: D976897
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Jody Akana, Bartley K. Andre, Jeremy Bataillou, Daniel J. Coster, Daniele De Iuliis, M. Evans Hankey, Julian Hoenig, Richard P. Howarth, Jonathan P. Ive, Duncan Robert Kerr, Shin Nishibori, Matthew Dean Rohrbach, Peter Russell-Clarke, Christopher J. Stringer, Eugene Antony Whang, Rico Zörkendörfer
  • Patent number: D976898
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    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: D976933
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Alexander Johnston, Jonathan Lochhead