Patents Assigned to Apple
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Patent number: 12238564Abstract: Disclosed are methods, systems, apparatus, and computer programs for a coordination mechanism between a network and a user equipment (UE) that is configured to perform cross-link interference (CLI) measurements. In one aspect, a method includes generating a message that indicates a capability of a user equipment (UE) whether to support simultaneous reception of at least one signal associated with cross-link interference (CLI) measurement and at least one signal associated with a serving cell or a neighbor cell of the UE. The method further includes transmitting the message to an access node (AN).Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 2023Date of Patent: February 25, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Qiming Li, Jie Cui, Yang Tang, Hua Li, Rui Huang
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Patent number: 12238595Abstract: Systems and methods for ultra reliable reporting of secondary cell group (SCG) measurements to a secondary node (SN) used in multi-radio dual connectivity (MR-DC) operation that specifically account for the possibility of SCG special cell (SpCell) degradation are disclosed herein. A user equipment (UE) may establish a signaling radio bearer (SRB) 3 with the SN. The UE may then identify that a handover condition (which may be associated with SCG SpCell degradation) for the SCG SpCell is met, and accordingly send an SCG measurement report over each of the SRB3 and an SRB1 between the UE and a master node (MN) used in the MR-DC operation. Such information received at the MN is forwarded to the SN. Accordingly, the reception of SCG measurement reports (to enable handover to a new SpCell by the SN) is not solely dependent messages on the SpCell of the SCG alone (using SRB3), improving reliability.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 2024Date of Patent: February 25, 2025Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: Kulwinder Saini, Vijayant Kumar
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Patent number: 12232878Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to displaying atrial fibrillation data. A computer system concurrently displays a first representation of atrial fibrillation data for a first period of time and a first representation of non-heart data the first period of time.Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 2021Date of Patent: February 25, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Nicholas Felton, Heather E. Daniel, Vera Carr, Patrick Okechukwu Eronini, Jr., Eamon Francis Gilravi, Ruchi Goswami, Ava Baunoo Rezvani, David Tsay
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Patent number: 12238286Abstract: A video decoding method according to the present disclosure may include partitioning a current picture into a plurality of tiles, decoding partitioning information representing a slice type, wherein the partitioning information represents whether a rectangular slice is applied and decoding first width information and first height information of a slice when the partitioning information represents that the rectangular slice is applied.Type: GrantFiled: November 1, 2023Date of Patent: February 25, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventor: Bae Keun Lee
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Patent number: 12236080Abstract: A computer-implemented method for use in conjunction with a computing device with a touch screen display comprises: detecting one or more finger contacts with the touch screen display, applying one or more heuristics to the one or more finger contacts to determine a command for the device, and processing the command. The one or more heuristics comprise: a heuristic for determining that the one or more finger contacts correspond to a one-dimensional vertical screen scrolling command, a heuristic for determining that the one or more finger contacts correspond to a two-dimensional screen translation command, and a heuristic for determining that the one or more finger contacts correspond to a command to transition from displaying a respective item in a set of items to displaying a next item in the set of items.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2022Date of Patent: February 25, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Stephen O. Lemay, Richard Williamson
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Patent number: 12236119Abstract: Systems and methods for balancing multiple partitions of non-volatile memory devices are provided. Embodiments discussed herein execute a balance proportion scheme in connection with a NVM that is partitioned to have multiple partition types. Each partition type has an associated endurance that defines an average number of program/erase (P/E) cycles it can endure before it reaches failure. For example, a first partition type may have a substantially greater endurance than a second partition type. The balance proportion scheme ensures that, even though each partition type has a different associated endurance, all partition types are used proportionally with respect to each other to balance their respective P/E cycles. This way, both partition types will reach the upper limits of their respective endurance levels out at approximately the same time.Type: GrantFiled: January 20, 2022Date of Patent: February 25, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Alexander Paley, Andrew W. Vogan
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Patent number: 12238882Abstract: Various components of an electronic device housing and methods for their assembly are disclosed. The housing can be formed by assembling and connecting two or more different sections together. The sections of the housing may be coupled together using one or more coupling members. The coupling members may be formed using a two-shot molding process in which the first shot forms a structural portion of the coupling members, and the second shot forms cosmetic portions of the coupling members.Type: GrantFiled: February 12, 2024Date of Patent: February 25, 2025Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: Bryan P. Kiple, Charles B. Woodhull, David A. Pakula, Tang Y. Tan
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Patent number: 12237891Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for storing a codebook in an integrated circuit. One of the methods includes storing, for an integrated circuit that comprises a memory, first data for a codebook in the memory; determining second data for the codebook using the first data; and sending, over a bus, the second data for the codebook to an antenna module separate from the integrated circuit.Type: GrantFiled: August 1, 2022Date of Patent: February 25, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Kexin Ma, Jennifer M. Edwards
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Patent number: 12236130Abstract: 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: May 16, 2023Date of Patent: February 25, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Steven Fishwick, Lior Zimet, Harshavardhan Kaushikkar
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Patent number: 12236038Abstract: A computer system detects an input that is directed, when the input starts, to a location within a view in a user interface, and consequentially: sends to a software element associated with the view a plurality of input events, wherein each input event comprises a data structure including a phase field that describes a state of the input at a respective time, and the phase field of one of the plurality of input events is set to an input phase began value indicating that the input is new; determines whether or not the input should be ignored by the electronic device; and, in accordance with a determination that the input should be ignored by the electronic device, includes in the plurality of input events an input event whose phase field is set to an input phase cancel value indicating that the input has been cancelled.Type: GrantFiled: August 15, 2023Date of Patent: February 25, 2025Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: Jason Clay Beaver, Andrew Platzer
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Patent number: 12238716Abstract: Techniques for physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) and physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) processing for multiple transmission and reception point (multi-TRP) are disclosed. In some embodiments, determining PDSCH hybrid automatic repeat request-acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) processing timing may include determining that a user equipment (UE) is configured for single downlink control information (single-DCI) multi-TRP PDSCH operation, determining a first PDSCH and a second PDSCH within a slot, wherein the first PDSCH and the second PDSCH are used in the single-DCI multi-TRP PDSCH operation, and determining a minimum HARQ-ACK processing timing for the first PDSCH and the second PDSCH using one or more symbols of the first PDSCH or one or more symbols of both the first PDSCH and the second PDSCH.Type: GrantFiled: May 21, 2024Date of Patent: February 25, 2025Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: Haitong Sun, Yushu Zhang, Chunhai Yao, Chunxuan Ye, Dawei Zhang, Hong He, Jia Tang, Jie Cui, Oghenekome Oteri, Sigen Ye, Wei Zeng, Wei Zhang, Weidong Yang, Yang Tang
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Patent number: 12237923Abstract: Embodiments may relate to group addressed frame delivery over multi-link systems. Systems and methods are configured for identifying, by an access point (AP) multilink device (MLD) in a wireless network, a first sequence number space (SNS) that is to be used by the AP MLD to transmit data to a non-AP MLD over a first communications link and a second communications link, wherein frames with identical data that are transmitted over the first and second communications links will have an identical first SN based on the first SNS; identifying, by the MLD in the wireless network, the first SN based on the first SNS; and transmitting, by the AP MLD in the wireless network, a frame that includes the data to the non-AP MLD based on the first SN.Type: GrantFiled: August 22, 2023Date of Patent: February 25, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Qi Wang, Yong Liu, Jarkko Lauri Sakari Kneckt, Jinjing Jiang, Yoel Boger, Guoquing Li, Tianyu Wu, Su Khiong Yong
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Patent number: 12238685Abstract: Systems and methods for sidelink (SL) power control within wireless communication systems are disclosed herein. A user equipment (UE) selects a parameter set to use to calculate a transmit power of one or more channels to be transmitted according to an SL session with a peer UE from a plurality of parameter sets each configured for use according to a distance between the UE and the peer UE. A UE determines whether an SL pathloss based calculation is to be used to calculate a transmit power of a channel according to an SL session with a peer UE, wherein that calculation is configured to be used depending on a distance between the UE and the peer UE. UE selection of a number of physical SL feedback channel (PSFCH) transmissions to match a UE capability and determinations regarding whether to perform PSFCH reception or PSFCH transmission are also discussed.Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 2023Date of Patent: February 25, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Chunxuan Ye, Dawei Zhang, Haijing Hu, Haitong Sun, Wei Zeng, Zhibin Wu
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Patent number: 12236036Abstract: Systems and methods for arranging applications on an electronic device with a touch-sensitive display. An example method includes, at an electronic device with a touch-sensitive display, concurrently displaying a first application window and a second application window. The method includes receiving an input directed to first application window followed by a drag input. The method also includes that in response to detecting the drag input: moving the first application window in accordance with the drag input, and enlarging the second application window to an enlarged size that is larger than a size at which the second application window was displayed prior to detecting the first input.Type: GrantFiled: June 16, 2020Date of Patent: February 25, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Stephen O. Lemay, Christopher P. Foss, Woo-Ram Lee, Lawrence Y. Yang, Caelan G. Stack
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Patent number: 12238605Abstract: Techniques, described herein, include solutions for anonymous geospatial evaluation via a wireless network. For example, a user equipment (UEs) may monitor a current location of UE for entry into a bounding box associated with a geographic area. Upon entry, the UE may generate and report an anonymous presence indicator to a bounding box server via the wireless network. The anonymous presence indicator may include information describing an instance of a UE being located within the bounding box; however, the anonymous presence indicator may not include information indicating an identifier of UE and/or a user of UE. The UE may report another anonymous presence indicator upon expiration of a re-report timer and/or upon entry into another bounding box.Type: GrantFiled: February 11, 2022Date of Patent: February 25, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Eric S Kinnear, Ozgur Ekici, Adam M Driscoll, Elliot S Briggs, Sean M Meiners, Brandon J Van Ryswyk, Siraj T Abidi
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Patent number: 12238808Abstract: Systems and methods related to “on/off” determinations regarding the performance of physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) monitoring during connected mode discontinuous reception (CDRX) on duration windows are disclosed herein. In some cases, a radio access network (RAN) predicts whether a downlink (DL) packet for a UE will arrive at a buffer of the RAN prior to an end of a CDRX on duration window of the UE, and sends a downlink control information (DCI) with a cyclic redundancy check (CRC) scrambled by a power-saving radio network temporary identifier (PS-RNTI) (DCP) for the CDRX on duration window indicating whether or not the UE should perform PDCCH monitoring during the CDRX on duration window based on the prediction. In some cases, a UE determines a current state of DL traffic and adaptively uses DCP monitoring based on the current state of the traffic. Aggregation level adaptation by the RAN is also discussed.Type: GrantFiled: September 21, 2022Date of Patent: February 25, 2025Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: Lijie Zhang, Lele Cui, Xiaolong Tu, Dongzhou Yang, Tao Tao, Lei Zhou, Zihuan Xu
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Patent number: 12235769Abstract: 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. Multiple levels of criticality may be available for a given cache line and cache circuitry may adjust the criticality value of in response to a criticality event. One or more upper criticality levels may be masked when selecting a victim cache line for replacement.Type: GrantFiled: January 25, 2024Date of Patent: February 25, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Tyler J. Huberty, Vivek Venkatraman, Sandeep Gupta, Eric J. Furbish, Srinivasa Rangan Sridharan, Stephen G. Meier
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Patent number: 12238954Abstract: An electronic device may have a hinge that allows the device to be flexed about a bend axis. A display may span the bend axis. To facilitate bending about the bend axis, the display may have layers such as a display cover layer with grooves or other recesses. The recesses form a flexible portion in the display layer. The display layer may be formed from glass or other materials that are transparent. Elastomeric material, fluids, and other materials may be placed in the recesses in the display layer. The material in the display layer may have an index of refraction that is matched to the index of refraction of the display layer. A hinge may be formed between rigid planar layers that are separated by a gap. Flexible layers that lie flush with opposing surfaces of the rigid planar layers may be used to span the gap.Type: GrantFiled: October 17, 2023Date of Patent: February 25, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Jiang Ai, Erik A. Uttermann, Soyoung Kim
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Patent number: 12238909Abstract: An electronic cooling assembly includes a heat-generating electronic component and a fan. In some examples the fan includes a housing defining an internal volume, the housing thermally coupled to the heat-generating electronic component, and a plurality of blades disposed in the internal volume. In some examples, the fan housing is thermally coupled directly to the heat-generating component via a thermal paste disposed between the heat-generating component and the housing.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2023Date of Patent: February 25, 2025Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: David J. Dunsmoor, Enoch Mylabathula, Jason C. Sauers, Jesse T. Dybenko, Laura M. Campo
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Patent number: D1063924Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2021Date of Patent: February 25, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Jody Akana, Molly Anderson, Bartley K. Andre, Shota Aoyagi, Anthony Michael Ashcroft, Marine C. Bataille, Jeremy Bataillou, Abidur Chowdhury, Markus Diebel, Daniele De Iuliis, M. Evans Hankey, Julian Hoenig, Richard P. Howarth, Jonathan P. Ive, Julian Jaede, Duncan Robert Kerr, Peter Russell-Clarke, Benjamin Andrew Shaffer, Mikael Silvanto, Joe Sung-Ho Tan, Clement Tissandier, Eugene Antony Whang, Rico Zörkendörfer