Patents Assigned to Apple
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Patent number: 11061793Abstract: Circuits, methods, and apparatus that may estimate the power being consumed by an OLED display screen of an electronic device, may provide further information about that power usage, may modify or change functions performed by the electronic device based on that power usage, and may inform an application's developer about the amount of power being used by the electronic device while the electronic device is running the application. One example may estimate the power being used by an OLED display screen of an electronic device by determining the content of images being displayed during a duration. The estimated power may then be presented to a user. The estimated power may be used in decisions to modify or change parameters of the screen or other device components.Type: GrantFiled: February 20, 2018Date of Patent: July 13, 2021Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Abhinav Pathak, Conor J. O'Reilly, Shashi K. Dua, Udaykumar R. Raval, Christopher W. Chaney, Amit K. Vyas, Albert S. Liu, Roberto Alvarez, Rohit Mundra, Vladislav Sahnovich, Patrick Y. Law, Paul M. Thompson, Paolo Sacchetto, Chaohao Wang, Arthur L. Spence, Jean-Pierre Simon Guillou, Mohammad Ali Jangda, Christopher Edward Glazowski, Yifan Zhang, Prajakta S. Karandikar, Han Ming Ong
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Patent number: 11064352Abstract: Methods and apparatus for dynamic file system management of an embedded Universal Integrated Circuit Card (eUICC) in response to changes for electronic Subscriber Identity Modules (eSIMs) on the eUICC are disclosed herein. Hardware specific file information, e.g., hardware-based eUICC parameters, which may apply to multiple eSIMs and/or multiple Mobile Network Operators (MNOs), is included in a default eUICC file system. MNO specific information, e.g., MNO-specified parameters, is included in eSIMs. Customized eUICC level files are created, stored, modified and/or replaced based on a combination of default eUICC files and MNO specific information extracted from an eSIM at installation and/or in response to a change of state of the eSIM, such as when enabling, disabling, or updating the eSIM on the eUICC.Type: GrantFiled: June 1, 2020Date of Patent: July 13, 2021Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventor: Xiangying Yang
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Patent number: 11064387Abstract: One exemplary implementation involves performing operations at an electronic device with one or more processors and a computer-readable storage medium. The device establishes a wireless communication link with a host device. The device receives, from the host device, a left eye frame and a right eye frame via a sequence of left eye frame transmissions and right eye frame transmissions. The device switches data transmissions schemes according to wireless commination link quality or eye gaze tracking. Adjusting transmission format based on transmission quality of the wireless communication link allows the devices to take advantage of greater bandwidth when available to save power. An additional transmission format is based on alternately transmitting left eye and right eye frames for very low bandwidth.Type: GrantFiled: May 14, 2019Date of Patent: July 13, 2021Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Aleksandr M. Movshovich, Arthur Y. Zhang, Hao Pan, Holly E. Gerhard, Jim C. Chou, Moinul H. Khan, Paul V. Johnson, Sorin C. Cismas, Sreeraman Anantharaman, William W. Sprague
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Patent number: 11064383Abstract: Apparatuses, systems, and methods for improving efficiency in IMS registration and management in a wireless communication device, such as a UE. In some scenarios, the UE may, while implementing IMS services (e.g. for VoLTE) over a wireless communication link with a cellular network, determine that the wireless communication link is not performing at an acceptable level. In response, the UE may start a timer and buffer IMS SIP signaling messages while the timer is running. If the wireless communication link performance is restored to an acceptable level before expiration of the timer, the UE may transmit the buffered IMS SIP signaling messages. If the timer expires prior to restoration of the wireless communication link, the buffered messages may be cleared, and the UE may locally deregister from IMS registration and IMS PDN. In some scenarios, select IMS SIP signaling messages may be omitted or removed from the buffer.Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 2019Date of Patent: July 13, 2021Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Sai Sravan Bharadwaj Karri, Sethuraman Gurumoorthy, Sree Ram Kodali, Stephen C. Schweizer, Alexander Allahverdiev, Murtaza A. Shikari, Srirang A. Lovlekar, Vijay Venkataraman, Wanping Zhang, Yifan Zhu
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Patent number: 11063046Abstract: A semiconductor device package is described that includes a power consuming device (such as an SOC device). The power consuming device may include one or more current consuming elements. A passive device may be coupled to the power consuming device. The passive device may include a plurality of passive elements formed on a semiconductor substrate. The passive elements may be arranged in an array of structures on the semiconductor substrate. The power consuming device and the passive device may be coupled using one or more terminals. The passive device and power consuming device coupling may be configured in such a way that the power consuming device determines functionally the way the passive device elements will be used.Type: GrantFiled: August 1, 2019Date of Patent: July 13, 2021Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Jared L. Zerbe, Emerson S. Fang, Jun Zhai, Shawn Searles
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Patent number: 11063652Abstract: Techniques discussed herein can facilitate maintenance and/or recovery of BPL(s) (Beam Pair Link(s)). Various embodiments can employ aspects discussed herein can one or more of enable interference randomization for beam/link recovery signal(s) or reduce the overhead of UL (Uplink) beam management RS (Reference Signal(s)). Various embodiments can comprise UE(s) (User Equipment(s)) that can receive configuration signaling configuring the UE(s) to one or more of apply interference randomization to a beam/link recovery signal and/or generate a SR (Scheduling Request) channel for beam maintenance having reduced overhead and can transmit the beam/link recovery signal and/or SR channel. Additional embodiments can comprise gNB(s) (next Generation NodeB(s)) that can configure UE(s) for beam maintenance and/or recovery techniques discussed herein.Type: GrantFiled: March 5, 2018Date of Patent: July 13, 2021Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Gang Xiong, Yushu Zhang, Alexei Davydov, Wook Bong Lee, Dae Won Lee, Guotong Wang
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Patent number: 11061893Abstract: A method and apparatus of a device that performs a multi-domain query search is described. In an exemplary embodiment, the device receives a query prefix from a client of a user. The device further determines a plurality of search completions across the plurality of separate search domains. In addition, the device ranks the plurality of search completions based on a score calculated for each of the plurality of search completions determined by a corresponding search domain, where at least one of the plurality of search completions is used to generate a plurality of search results without an indication from the user and in response to receiving the query prefix.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2014Date of Patent: July 13, 2021Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Saravana Kumar Siva Kumaran, Vipul Ved Prakash, Rishab Aiyer Ghosh, Lun Cui, Charles Henry Salzenberg, Jr.
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Patent number: 11061490Abstract: A wireless power transmission system may include a wireless power transmitting device such as a tablet computer and a wireless power receiving device such as a computer stylus. A wireless power transmitting capacitor electrode may be formed in the tablet computer. A wireless power receiving capacitor electrode may be formed in the computer stylus. The transmitting capacitor electrode may be driven by a drive signal having a frequency of 900 MHz or greater to produce wireless power. The wireless power may be transmitted from the transmitting capacitor electrode to the receiving capacitor electrode on the stylus via near field capacitive coupling. The transmitting and receiving capacitor electrodes may each include conductive traces on dielectric substrates. The conductive traces may follow meandering paths to maximize the possible capacitive coupling efficiency between the capacitor electrodes and thus the end-to-end charging efficiency of the wireless power transmission system.Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 2020Date of Patent: July 13, 2021Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Bing Jiang, Blake R. Marshall, Indranil S. Sen, Liquan Tan, Reza Nasiri Mahalati, Yi Jiang, Mohit Narang
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Patent number: 11064356Abstract: Systems and methods of a security framework for an RRC connection are described. The UE receives a release message that comprises a current Next Hop Chaining Counter (NCC). The UE derives a new KeNB* using the current NCC and transmits an EDT RA preamble to same or a different base station. After receiving an RAR with an uplink allocation, the UE transmits a RRCConnectionResumeRequest message. The UE transmits uplink data encrypted using KeNB* if the uplink allocation includes a data allocation sufficient for the data, fall backs to a legacy RRC connection procedure in which the stored KeNB* is discarded and then KeNB* is re-derived if the data allocation is insufficient for the data due to a CE level change, and fall backs to a legacy RRC connection procedure in which the stored KeNB* is used instead of discarding KeNB* if the uplink allocation excludes the data allocation.Type: GrantFiled: May 8, 2019Date of Patent: July 13, 2021Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Bharat Shrestha, Seau S. Lim, Yi Guo
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Patent number: 11062476Abstract: A method includes obtaining a set of images that correspond to a person. The method includes generating a body pose model of the person defined by a branched plurality of neural network systems. Each neural network system models a respective portion of the person between a first body-joint and a second body-joint as dependent on an adjacent portion of the person sharing the first body-joint. Providing the set of images of the respective portion to a first one and a second one of the neural network systems. The first one and second one correspond to adjacent body portions. The method includes determining, jointly by at least the first one and second one of the plurality of neural network systems pose information for the first respective body-joint and the second respective body-joint.Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 2019Date of Patent: July 13, 2021Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: Andreas N. Bigontina, Behrooz Mahasseni, Gutemberg B. Guerra Filho, Saumil B. Patel, Stefan Auer
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Patent number: 11063748Abstract: Some embodiments of the subject technology provide a novel system for synchronizing content items among a group of peer devices. The content synchronizing system of some embodiments includes the group of peer devices and a set of one or more synchronizing servers communicatively connected with the peer devices through one or more networks. In some embodiments, the synchronizing system uses a star architecture, in which each peer device offloads its synchronization operations to the synchronizing server set. Without establishing a peer-to-peer communication with any other peer device, the particular peer device in these embodiments supplies an encrypted content item set along with the N?1 encryptions of a content key used to encrypt the content item set to the synchronizing server set so that this server set can distribute the encrypted content item set and an encrypted content key to each of the N?1 peer devices.Type: GrantFiled: June 1, 2018Date of Patent: July 13, 2021Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Per Love Hornquist Astrand, Benjamin I. Williamson, Keaton F. Mowery, Mitchell D. Adler, Michelle A. Auricchio, Luke T. Hiesterman
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Patent number: 11063706Abstract: Embodiments of an Evolved Node-B (eNB), User Equipment (UE) and methods for communication are generally described herein. The eNB may receive, from a UE, uplink control information (UCI) that indicates a hybrid automatic repeat request identifier (HARQ ID) for a grant-less uplink (GUL) transmission by the UE during a first sub-frame. The eNB may select, from candidate HARQ IDs, a HARQ ID for a scheduled uplink (SUL) transmission by another UE in a second sub-frame after the first sub-frame. The eNB may, if the GUL transmission is successfully decoded, include the HARQ ID for the GUL transmission in the candidate HARQ IDs for the GUL transmission. The eNB may, if the GUL transmission is not successfully decoded, exclude the HARQ ID for the GUL transmission from the candidate HARQ IDs for the GUL transmission.Type: GrantFiled: April 13, 2018Date of Patent: July 13, 2021Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Wenting Chang, Huaning Niu, Salvatore Talarico, Qiaoyang Ye, Anthony Lee, Seau S. Lim
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Patent number: 11061536Abstract: Systems and methods for multitasking using touch-sensitive devices, including: displaying, by a display generation component, a first user interface containing a selectable representation of first content, wherein the first content is associated with a first application; detecting a first input that corresponds to a request to move the selectable representation of the first content across the display to a respective location; in response to detecting the first input: in accordance with a determination that the respective location is a first location, resizing the first user interface and displaying a second user interface that includes the first content adjacent to the first user interface; and in accordance with a determination that the respective location is a second location different from the first location, displaying a third user interface that includes the first content overlaid on the first user interface.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2019Date of Patent: July 13, 2021Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: Brandon M. Walkin, Shubham Kedia, Patrick L. Coffman
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Patent number: 11064440Abstract: Described herein are architectures, platforms and methods for implementing scalable power in a wireless device. Multiple radio access technology architectures running different operating clock frequencies are supported by providing a scaled static clock frequency and dynamic clock frequencies by dynamically switching parallel paths of processing resources.Type: GrantFiled: August 16, 2019Date of Patent: July 13, 2021Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventor: Andreas Menkhoff
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Patent number: 11062435Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer readable media to improve the operation of a display system are disclosed. Techniques disclosed herein selectively darken a region of an image so that when text or other information is rendered into that region, the contrast between the text or other information and the underlying image in that area is sufficient to ensure the text or other information is visible and readable. In one embodiment, a region into which information is to be rendered may be combined or blended with tone mapped values of those same pixels in accordance with a given function, where the function gives more weight to the tone mapped pixel values the closer those pixels are to the midline of the region and more weight to untone-mapped image pixel values the further those pixels are from the midline of the region.Type: GrantFiled: November 11, 2019Date of Patent: July 13, 2021Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Ian C. Hendry, John C. Gnaegy
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Patent number: 11061744Abstract: The subject technology provides a system of devices, at least one of which includes an application configured to receive data directly from another one of the devices. The application is configured to obtain a list of available devices and associated features and provide input options for display based on the list. When one of the input options is selected, the application activates a component and/or an application of the other device for generation of the desired data. When the desired data has been generated by the other device, the generated data is directly input from the other device into the running application, without storage of the generated data at the other device, and without operation of the same application on the other device.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2018Date of Patent: July 13, 2021Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: John O. Louch, Kevin J. Van Vechten, Christopher N. Ryan, John J. Iarocci, Bob Bradley
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Patent number: 11064068Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure are directed to, among other things, generating reminders on a wearable device. For example, a reminder user interface may be presented on a wearable device. Additionally, in some examples, if a first portion of the user interface is selected, an attributed associated with the reminder may be presented. In some examples, if a second portion of the user interface is selected, the reminder may be marked as complete.Type: GrantFiled: February 12, 2020Date of Patent: July 13, 2021Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventor: Bicrumjit S. Bhullar
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Patent number: D924868Type: GrantFiled: April 23, 2018Date of Patent: July 13, 2021Assignee: 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
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Patent number: D924889Type: GrantFiled: June 1, 2019Date of Patent: July 13, 2021Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Monika E. Gromek, Terry Y. Liu, Brandon R. Mihai
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Patent number: D924912Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 2019Date of Patent: July 13, 2021Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Lee S. Broughton, Alan C. Dye, Behkish Johnnie Manzari, Grant R. Paul, William A. Sorrentino, III, Andre Souza Dos Santos