Patents Assigned to Apple
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Patent number: 11570694Abstract: Described is an apparatus of a User Equipment (UE). The apparatus may comprise a first circuitry, a second circuitry, and a third circuitry. The first circuitry may be operable to determine that the UE is in an Inactive Radio Resource Control (RRC) state. The second circuitry may be operable to process a first transmission received by the UE while the UE is in the Inactive RRC state, the first transmission carrying a set of one or more Access Control (AC) parameters. The third circuitry may be operable to regulate the sending of a second transmission, in accordance with the set of one or more AC parameters, while the UE is in the Inactive RRC state.Type: GrantFiled: December 29, 2017Date of Patent: January 31, 2023Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Hyung-Nam Choi, Marta Martinez Tarradell, Sudeep Palat, Robert Zaus, Youn Hyoung Heo, Richard Burbidge
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Patent number: 11570143Abstract: A device implementing the subject system may include at least one processor configured to receive, by a first system process, a first network address that corresponds to a domain name that was resolved by a second system process, the resolving having been responsive to a resolution request therefor by an application process. The at least one processor may be further configured to receive, by the first system process, a second network address for which a network connection was opened by the application process. The at least one processor may be further configured to, responsive to determining that the application process opened a network connection for a network address for which the application process did not provide, to the second system process, a resolution request for the corresponding domain name, provide, by the first system process, an indication of the network address in conjunction with an indication of the application process.Type: GrantFiled: February 8, 2022Date of Patent: January 31, 2023Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Amitabha Ghosh, Franco Travostino, Henri S. Berger, Philip W. Flack, Timothy A. Mccoy, Maciej Stachowiak, Beth M. Dakin
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Patent number: 11568731Abstract: An electronic device includes a processor, and a memory containing instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the electronic device to learn a sound emitted by a legacy device and to issue an output when the electronic device subsequently hears the sound. For example, the electronic device can receive a training input and extract a compact representation of a sound in the training input, which the device stores. The device can receive an audio signal corresponding to an observed acoustic scene and extract a representation of the observed acoustic scene from the audio signal. The electronic device can determine whether the sound is present in the observed acoustic scene at least in part from a comparison of the representation of the observed acoustic scene with the representation of the sound. The electronic device emits a selected output responsive to determining that the sound is present in the acoustic scene.Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 2020Date of Patent: January 31, 2023Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: Hyung-Suk Kim, Daniel C. Klingler, Miquel Espi Marques, Carlos M. Avendano
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Patent number: 11567861Abstract: In an embodiment, a system may support programmable hashing of address bits at a plurality of levels of granularity to map memory addresses to memory controllers and ultimately at least to memory devices. The hashing may be programmed to distribute pages of memory across the memory controllers, and consecutive blocks of the page may be mapped to physically distant memory controllers. In an embodiment, address bits may be dropped from each level of granularity, forming a compacted pipe address to save power within the memory controller. In an embodiment, a memory folding scheme may be employed to reduce the number of active memory devices and/or memory controllers in the system when the full complement of memory is not needed.Type: GrantFiled: November 4, 2021Date of Patent: January 31, 2023Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Steven Fishwick, Jeffry E. Gonion, Per H. Hammarlund, Eran Tamari, Lior Zimet, Gerard R. Williams, III
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Patent number: 11569926Abstract: In an embodiment, a method for determining the type of a mobile radio base station is provided. The method may include receiving a synchronization message comprising a mobile radio base station identifier, and determining the type of a mobile radio base station using a previously signaled and stored piece of mobile radio base station type determining information indicating a rule as to how the type of a mobile radio base station out of a plurality of types of a mobile radio base station can be derived from a mobile radio base station identifier and the received mobile radio base station identifier.Type: GrantFiled: July 10, 2020Date of Patent: January 31, 2023Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Markus Dominik Mueck, Thomas Ruprich, Andreas Schmidt, Hyung-Nam Choi
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Patent number: 11567632Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to exploring a geographic region that is displayed in computer user interfaces. In some embodiments, a method includes at an electronic device with a display and one or more input devices, displaying a map of a geographic region on the display and detecting a first user input to select a starting location on the map. After detecting the first user input, the method includes detecting a second user input to select a first direction of navigation from the starting location. In response to detecting the second user input, the method includes determining a path on the map that traverses in the first direction of navigation and connects the starting location to an ending location, and providing audio that includes traversal information about traversing along the path in the geographic region in the first direction of navigation and from the starting location to the ending location.Type: GrantFiled: July 2, 2019Date of Patent: January 31, 2023Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Christopher B. Fleizach, Michael A. Troute, Reginald D. Hudson, Aaron M. Everitt, Conor M. Hughes
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Patent number: 11567648Abstract: A method is performed by an electronic device with a display and a touch-sensitive surface. The method includes: displaying a progress icon that indicates a current position within a first piece of content; displaying a multi-purpose content navigation icon; while providing the first piece of content: detecting a first contact at a first location that corresponds to the multi-purpose content navigation icon; while continuing to detect the contact at the first location, moving the current position within the first piece of content at a predefined scrubbing rate; and, in response to detecting movement of the contact that includes a first component of movement in a direction that corresponds to movement on the display parallel to the first predefined direction, moving the current position within the first piece of content at a variable scrubbing rate that varies monotonically as the first component of movement increases.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2020Date of Patent: January 31, 2023Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Imran Chaudhri, Elizabeth Caroline Furches Cranfill, Michael J. Matas, Lucas C. Newman, Marcel Van Os
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Patent number: 11570129Abstract: In some embodiments, an electronic device displays a plurality of content items in a messaging conversation. In some embodiments, the electronic device displays user interfaces associated with one or more content items in a messaging conversation.Type: GrantFiled: September 25, 2021Date of Patent: January 31, 2023Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Zheng Xuan Hong, Chia Yang Lin, Chanaka G. Karunamuni, Nicole R. Ryan, Graham R. Clarke
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Patent number: 11570547Abstract: An acoustic device comprising an enclosure having an enclosure wall that defines an enclosure volume; a first mass movably coupled to the enclosure, the first mass comprising a sound radiating surface, a voice coil and a first suspension member; a second mass movably coupled to the enclosure, the second mass comprising a magnet assembly and a second suspension member, and wherein the first suspension member couples the first mass to the second mass, the second suspension member couples the magnet assembly to the enclosure wall, and the second suspension member is tuned to reduce enclosure vibrations caused by a movement of the first mass and the second mass relative to the enclosure.Type: GrantFiled: June 9, 2021Date of Patent: January 31, 2023Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventor: Jason D. Silver
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Patent number: 11569849Abstract: An apparatus for wireless communication is provided. The apparatus includes a processing circuit configured to receive data to be wirelessly transmitted within a predefined frequency range. Further, the processing circuit is configured to generate a first radio frequency transmit signal of a first frequency range based on the data, and to generate a second radio frequency transmit signal of a second frequency range based on the data. The first frequency range and the second frequency range are subranges of the predefined frequency range. The apparatus further includes a front-end circuit configured to supply the first radio frequency transmit signal to a first antenna, and to supply the second radio frequency transmit signal to a second antenna.Type: GrantFiled: November 23, 2017Date of Patent: January 31, 2023Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Andreas Langer, Thomas Bruder
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Patent number: 11570782Abstract: A user equipment (UE) transmits concurrent channel state information (CSI) processing capability information to a base station. The capability information can take various forms, and is intended to constrain the base station in the types of CSI requests that can be made to the UE. For example, the UE may indicate different CSI processing capabilities for intra-CC and inter-CC cases and/or for different codebook types. The UE may also specify supported combinations of codebook types for concurrent CSI reporting. The UE may also specify maximum resources or weighting factors for different codebook types. The UE may further restrict the rank information it provides and use a priority rule for “dropping” CSI report data due to payload size restrictions. The base station may direct, or the UE may implement, improved utilization of CSI resources that are shared for multiple concurrent CSI reports. Minimum time requirements for CSI reporting may also be relaxed.Type: GrantFiled: February 12, 2020Date of Patent: January 31, 2023Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Chunhai Yao, Chunxuan Ye, Dawei Zhang, Ghaith N Hattab, Haitong Sun, Hong He, Ismael Gutierrez Gonzalez, Oghenekome Oteri, Wei Zeng, Weidong Yang, Yeong-Sun Hwang, Yuchul Kim, Yushu Zhang
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Patent number: 11567311Abstract: An electronic device may include a display and an optical sensor formed underneath the display. The electronic device may include a plurality of transparent windows that overlap the optical sensor. Each transparent window may be devoid of thin-film transistors and other display components. The plurality of transparent windows is configured to increase the transmittance of light through the display to the sensor. The transparent windows may have non-periodic portions to mitigate diffraction artifacts in light that passes through the display to the optical sensor. The transparent windows may be shifted by a random amount in a random direction relative to a grid defining point and/or may be randomly rotated to increase the non-periodicity. A transparency gradient may be formed between the transparent windows and the surrounding opaque portion of the display. The transparent windows may be defined by non-linear edges.Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 2021Date of Patent: January 31, 2023Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Yi Qiao, Jean-Pierre S. Guillou, Ming Xu, Yue Cui
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Patent number: 11567622Abstract: Some embodiments provide a navigation application with a novel declutter navigation mode. In some embodiments, the navigation application has a declutter control that when selected, directs the navigation application to simplify a navigation presentation by removing or de-emphasizing non-essential items that are displayed in the navigation presentation. In some embodiments, the declutter control is a mode-selecting control that allows the navigation presentation to toggle between normal first navigation presentation and a simplified second navigation presentation, which below is also referred to as a decluttered navigation presentation. During normal mode operation, the navigation presentation of some embodiments provides (1) a representation of the navigated route, (2) representations of the roads along the navigated route, (3) representation of major and minor roads that intersect or are near the navigated route, and (4) representations of buildings and other objects in the navigated scene.Type: GrantFiled: May 5, 2020Date of Patent: January 31, 2023Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Jonathan L. Berk, Bradley L. Spare, Edward J. Cooper
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Patent number: 11570549Abstract: This disclosure includes several different features suitable for use in circumaural and supra-aural headphones designs. Designs that reduce the size of headphones and allow for small form-factor storage configurations are discussed. User convenience features that include synchronizing earpiece stem positions and automatically detecting the orientation of the headphones on a user's head are also discussed. Various power-saving features, design features, sensor configurations and user comfort features are also discussed.Type: GrantFiled: February 16, 2021Date of Patent: January 31, 2023Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: Brett W. Degner, Michael E. Leclerc, David H. Narajowski, Kristopher P. Laurent, William K. Smith, Christopher J. Stringer, Daniele de Luliis, Markus Diebel, Sung-Ho Tan
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Patent number: 11567985Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for determining at least one valid mood for a collection of media content items of a media library are provided.Type: GrantFiled: August 10, 2020Date of Patent: January 31, 2023Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Eric Circlaeys, James Alan Queen, Killian Huyghe, Zachary H. Smith
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Patent number: 11570417Abstract: A system obtains a data set representing immersive video content for display at a display time, including first data representing the content according to a first level of detail, and second data representing the content according to a second higher level of detail. During one or more first times prior to the display time, the system causes at least a portion of the first data to be stored in a buffer. During one or more second times prior to the display time, the system generates a prediction of a viewport for displaying the content to a user at the display time, identifies a portion of the second data corresponding to the prediction of the viewport, and causes the identified portion of the second data to be stored in the video buffer. At the display time, the system causes the content to be displayed to the user using the video buffer.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 2021Date of Patent: January 31, 2023Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Fanyi Duanmu, Jun Xin, Hsi-Jung Wu, Xiaosong Zhou
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Patent number: 11567654Abstract: An electronic device, displays, via a display device, a first user interface that includes content of a first application, including, as a state of the first application changes, updating the content of the first application displayed in the first user interface. While displaying the first user interface, the electronic device detects, via an input device, a first user input corresponding to a request to dismiss the first user interface. In response to detecting the first user input, the electronic device: ceases to display the first user interface; displays a second user interface that is different from the first user interface; and displays, over a portion of the second user interface, a first user interface object that includes content of the first application, including, as the state of the first application changes, updating the content of the first application displayed in the first user interface object.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2022Date of Patent: January 31, 2023Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventor: William M. Tyler
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Patent number: 11570588Abstract: A user equipment (UE) indicates to a network the types of SMS messages that the UE does not support. The network receives an indication from the UE corresponding to one or more types of short message service (SMS) messages that are supported by the UE, receives a SMS that is intended to be delivered to the UE, determines whether to forward the SMS message to the UE based on the indication received from the UE, when the SMS message is a type of SMS message supported by the UE, forwards the SMS message to the UE and, when the SMS message is not a type of SMS message supported by the UE, discards the SMS message.Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 2020Date of Patent: January 31, 2023Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Utkarsh Kumar, Srinivasan Nimmala, Vijay Venkataraman, Yifan Zhu, Lakshmi N. Kavuri, Krisztian Kiss
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Patent number: D976585Type: GrantFiled: July 17, 2020Date of Patent: January 31, 2023Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Jody Akana, Molly Anderson, Bartley K. Andre, Shota Aoyagi, Anthony Michael Ashcroft, Marine C. Bataille, Jeremy Bataillou, Abidur Rahman Chowdhury, Markus Diebel, 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
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Patent number: D976948Type: GrantFiled: November 13, 2020Date of Patent: January 31, 2023Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Gary William Gehiere, Amy Hung, Daniel Huy Mai, Jonathan Cho