Patents Assigned to Apple
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Patent number: 11128328Abstract: A sensor circuit included in a computer system may include multiple antennas, a control circuit, a mixer circuit, a transmitter circuit and a filter circuit. The control circuit may generate a baseband signal, which the mixer circuit may modulate using a modulation signal to generate a transmit signal. The transmitter circuit may transmit the transmit signal using a first antenna. The filter circuit may be configured to track a carrier frequency of the transmit signal and filter a reflected version of the transmit signal to generate an output signal.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2020Date of Patent: September 21, 2021Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventor: Simone Gambini
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Patent number: 11126348Abstract: An electronic device displays a messaging user interface of a message application, including a conversation transcript of a messaging session between a user of the electronic device and a plurality of other users, a message-input area, and a plurality of avatars corresponding to the plurality of other users. The plurality of avatars are displayed as a stack of avatars, with a first avatar of avatars displayed on the top of the stack of avatars. In response to detecting an input by a first contact on the touch-sensitive surface while a focus selector is at a first location in the messaging user interface that corresponds to the first avatar, if the input meets menu-activation-criteria, a menu that contains activatable menu items associated with the first avatar overlaid on the messaging user interface is displayed, and if the input meets avatar-spreading-criteria the plurality of avatars are displayed in an array.Type: GrantFiled: February 12, 2020Date of Patent: September 21, 2021Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: Imran A. Chaudhri, Freddy A. Anzures, Chanaka G. Karunamuni, Nicholas V. King, Daamun Mohseni, Hoan Pham, Wan Si Wan, Giancarlo Yerkes, Darin B. Adler, Bethany Bongiorno, Justin N. Wood, Roberto Garcia, Soin Shedlosky
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Patent number: 11129104Abstract: A telecommunication network may operate to enable a wake up signals (WUSs) within the telecommunication network. A mobility management entity (MME) may estimate a coverage enhancement (CE) level of a user equipment (UE), determine, based on the CE level, a number of repetitions for a wake up signal (WUS) for the UE, and cause a WUS for UE to be transmitted to a radio access network (RAN) node corresponding to the UE. The RAN node may inform the MME that the RAN node has disabled the WUS feature, and may cause system information to be broadcast to UEs in IDLE mode, indicating that the WUS feature of the RAN node has been disabled. A UE may determine a paging occasion (PO) determine a maximum WUS duration, minimum offset, and start location of the WUS.Type: GrantFiled: August 13, 2018Date of Patent: September 21, 2021Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Bharat Shrestha, Maruti Gupta Hyde, Qiaoyang Ye, Timothy Cox
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Patent number: 11126439Abstract: Techniques are disclosed relating to operand routing among SIMD pipelines. In some embodiments, an apparatus includes a set of multiple hardware pipelines configured to execute a single-instruction multiple-data (SIMD) instruction for multiple threads in parallel, wherein the instruction specifies first and second architectural registers. In some embodiments, the pipelines include execution circuitry configured to perform operations using one or more pipeline stages of the pipeline. In some embodiments, the pipelines include routing circuitry configured to select, based on the instruction, a first input operand for the execution circuitry from among: a value from the first architectural register from thread-specific storage for another pipeline and a value from the second architectural register from thread-specific storage for a thread assigned to another pipeline.Type: GrantFiled: November 15, 2019Date of Patent: September 21, 2021Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Christopher A. Burns, Liang-Kai Wang, Robert D. Kenney, Terence M. Potter
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Publication number: 20210287435Abstract: For a mapping application, a method for reporting a problem related to a map displayed by the mapping application is described. The method identifies a mode in which the mapping application is operating. The method identifies a set of types of problems to report based on the identified mode. The method displays, in a display area of the mapping application, a graphical user interface (GUI) page that includes a set of selectable user interface (UI) items that represent the identified set of types of problems.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 28, 2021Publication date: September 16, 2021Applicant: Apple Inc.Inventors: Bradford A. Moore, Marcel van Os, Albert P. Dul, Ethan C. Sorrelgreen, I Wei Lai
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Publication number: 20210289043Abstract: Disclosed are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media for efficiently monitoring the operating context of a computing device. In some implementations, the context daemon and/or the context client can be terminated to conserve system resources. For example, if the context daemon and/or the context client are idle, they can be shutdown to conserve battery power or free other system resources (e.g., memory). When an event occurs (e.g., a change in current context) that requires the context daemon and/or the context client to be running, the context daemon and/or the context client can be restarted to handle the event. Thus, system resources can be conserved while still providing relevant context information collection and callback notification features.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 9, 2021Publication date: September 16, 2021Applicant: Apple Inc.Inventors: Alexander Barraclough Brown, Umesh S. Vaishampayan
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Publication number: 20210288708Abstract: Herein described are apparatuses, systems, and methods for measurement and reporting of channel state information within wireless network systems. In embodiments, an apparatus for a user equipment (UE) may include memory to store a rank indicator (RI), a precoding matrix index (PMI), and a channel quality indicator (CQI) of channel state information (CSI) for the UE. The apparatus may further include circuitry to concatenate the RI, the PMI, and the CQI to produce a concatenated CSI element, generate a CSI report that includes the concatenated CSI element, and cause the CSI report to be transmitted to a base station within a single slot. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 28, 2021Publication date: September 16, 2021Applicant: Apple Inc.Inventors: Alexei DAVYDOV, Sameer PAWAR, Wook Bong LEE, Yushu ZHANG, Victor SERGEEV, Joonyoung CHO, Dmitry DIKAREV
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Publication number: 20210289498Abstract: Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for synchronizing the switching of different wireless platforms to different portions of a frequency band. An embodiment, at a first wireless platform, operates by receiving a band switch request message from a second wireless platform, wherein the band switch request message comprises a band switch delay period for the second wireless platform. The embodiment calculates a band switch time based on a band switch delay period for the first wireless platform and the band switch delay period for the second wireless platform. The embodiment transmits a band switch accept message comprising the band switch time to the second wireless platform. The embodiment sets a first filter to operate on a second portion of the frequency band based on the band switch time. The embodiment then operates on the second portion of the frequency band.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 10, 2020Publication date: September 16, 2021Applicant: Apple Inc.Inventors: Adam B. LAPEDE, Daniel R. BORGES, Mohammed W. MOKHTAR, Helena D. O'SHEA, Alon PAYCHER, Oren SHANI, Matthew L. SEMERSKY, Sriram HARIHARAN, Sreeraman ANANTHARAMAN, Khaye Loon WEI, Andrew D. SMART
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Publication number: 20210286429Abstract: Techniques are disclosed for defining a training data set to include biosignals and categorical labels representative of a context. For example, a categorical label may indicate whether a user was performing a difficult or easy mental task while the biosignal was being recorded. A set of first layers in a neural network can be trained using a portion of the training data set associated with a first set of users and at least one second layer can be trained using a portion of the training data set associated with a particular other user. The neural network can then be used to process other biosignals from the particular other user to generate predicted categorical context labels.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 12, 2021Publication date: September 16, 2021Applicant: Apple Inc.Inventors: Erdrin Azemi, Joseph Yitan Cheng, Hanlin Goh
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Publication number: 20210288842Abstract: Systems, apparatuses, methods, and computer-readable media are provided for time domain resource allocations in wireless communications systems. Disclosed embodiments include time-domain symbol determination and/or indication using a combination of higher layer and downlink control information signaling for physical downlink shared channel and physical uplink shared channel; time domain resource allocations for mini-slot operations; rules for postponing and dropping for multiple mini-slot transmission; and collision handling of sounding reference signals with semi-statically or semi-persistently configured uplink transmissions. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 28, 2021Publication date: September 16, 2021Applicant: Apple Inc.Inventors: Debdeep CHATTERJEE, Sergey PANTELEEV, Gang XIONG, Ajit NIMBALKER, Hong HE
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Patent number: 11122565Abstract: This disclosure relates to performing cellular communication in unlicensed spectrum using a flexible slot structure. A cellular base station may perform a listen-before-talk procedure, and may transmit a reservation frame when the listen-before-talk procedure is successful. The reservation frame may reserve a wireless medium for a transmit opportunity. Transmission slots may be scheduled for communication with one or more wireless devices during the transmit opportunity. The transmission slots may be selected from multiple possible uplink transmission slot types and multiple possible downlink transmission slot types. Indications of the scheduled transmission slots, including indications of slot types of the scheduled transmission slots, may be provided to the wireless devices. Wireless communication may be performed between the cellular base station and the wireless devices according to the scheduled transmission slots.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2019Date of Patent: September 14, 2021Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Farouk Belghoul, Christian W. Mucke, Awais M. Hussain
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Patent number: 11120445Abstract: A device in a payment transaction handoff system may include at least one processor configured to receive a request to perform a payment transaction and identify, using a first communication protocol, a respective device identifier of each of a plurality of proximate devices. The at least one processor is configured to select, based at least in part on a payment factor, a default payment device from the plurality of proximate devices. The at least one processor is configured to transmit, via a second communication protocol, a message to perform the payment transaction, the message comprising the device identifier of the default payment device. In one or more implementations, a first device of the plurality of proximate devices may be associated with a first user account and a second device of the plurality of proximate devices may be associated with a second user account, different from the first user account.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2018Date of Patent: September 14, 2021Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Bob Bradley, Marc J. Krochmal, William M. Bumgarner, Vijay Sundaram, Margaret A. Moore, Nicholas J. Shearer, Brandon J. Kieft
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Patent number: 11120485Abstract: The present technology provides a purchasing interface within an application that allows users to purchase a product from another source without leaving the application. The application offers a product for purchase, and a user, desiring to purchase the product can provide an input effective to cause a purchasing interface to be displayed. While the purchasing interface, or information presented therein, comes from the product source, which is different than the application source, it is presented in such a fashion that gives the impression to the user that they are purchasing the product directly from the application.Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 2018Date of Patent: September 14, 2021Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: James Alexander Howard, William Bedford Turner, Christopher Blumenberg, Richard Williamson
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Patent number: 11118911Abstract: A method of creating a local map includes: receiving, at a mobile electronic data processing apparatus, a request from a server to generate a map of a specified destination; sending to the server a message accepting the request to generate the map responsive to receiving, at a user input of the mobile electronic data processing device, a user command indicating acceptance of the request; generating, using a processor, information related to construction of the map; an transmitting, from the mobile electronic data processing apparatus, the information related to construction of the map.Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 2018Date of Patent: September 14, 2021Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Alex Flint, Oleg Naroditsky, Andriy Grygorenko, Oriel Bergig
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Patent number: 11119638Abstract: An orientation of an application user interface (e.g., text and/or content) on a display of a device may be determined by an orientation of the device relative to gravity. In situations where the orientation of the device relative to gravity does not provide a confident or accurate orientation for the application user interface, orientation of the application user interface may be determined from face orientation data. Face orientation data may be obtained from a face detection process operating on images of the user captured during a facial recognition process or during an attention detection process.Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 2019Date of Patent: September 14, 2021Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Kelsey Y. Ho, Eric J. Blumberg, Benjamin Biron, Colin C. Terndrup
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Patent number: 11122516Abstract: Uplink Transmission Power Control (TPC) techniques configured to compensate for variations in path loss and/or interference on a plurality of uplink transmission beams.Type: GrantFiled: May 9, 2019Date of Patent: September 14, 2021Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: Yushu Zhang, RongZhen Yang, Yuan Zhu, Gang Xiong, Wenting Chang, Guotong Wang, Dae Won Lee, Yongjun Kwak
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Patent number: 11119616Abstract: Trace transfer techniques can be used to couple touch electrodes to touch sensing circuitry with a reduced border region around a touch sensor panel. Touch electrodes on a first side of the substrate can be routed to a bond pad region on the second side of the substrate via a trace transfer technique to enable single-sided bonding of a double-sided touch sensor panel. Trace transfer techniques can also be used to couple conductive traces on a first side of the substrate to a flex circuit oriented perpendicular to or otherwise not parallel to the first side of the substrate. Orienting the flex circuit in this way can allow the flex circuit to connect to touch circuitry with reduced bending as compared with the amount of bending of the flex circuit when oriented substantially parallel to the substrate.Type: GrantFiled: October 23, 2019Date of Patent: September 14, 2021Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Helia Rahmani, Prithu Sharma, David Sheldon Schultz
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Patent number: 11122580Abstract: Embodiments of an Evolved Node-B (eNB), User Equipment (UE), and methods for flexible duplex communication are generally described herein. The eNB may transmit a downlink control information (DCI) block to the UE during a group of time-division duplex (TDD) sub-frames. The eNB may further receive an uplink control information (UCI) block from the UE during the group of TDD sub-frames. A first candidate flexible duplex format for the TDD sub-frames may include a downlink control portion and an uplink control portion. A second candidate flexible duplex format for the TDD sub-frames may include a downlink control portion and may exclude uplink control portions.Type: GrantFiled: May 8, 2019Date of Patent: September 14, 2021Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Gang Xiong, Hong He, Ralf Matthias Bendlin, Jong-Kae Fwu, Seunghee Han, Huaning Niu, Yushu Zhang, Yuan Zhu
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Patent number: 11121590Abstract: A wireless power system may include an accessory configured to transfer or relay wireless power to a portable electronic device. The portable electronic device may include wireless charging circuitry and sensors configured to detect compatible accessories currently coupled with the portable electronic device. The portable electronic device performs wireless charging or related functions in accordance with the coupled accessories.Type: GrantFiled: September 22, 2020Date of Patent: September 14, 2021Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Parin Patel, Daniel P. Kumar, Andrew C. Chang
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Patent number: 11121743Abstract: An apparatus is configured to be employed within a base station. The apparatus comprises baseband circuitry which includes a radio frequency (RF) interface and one or more processors. The one or more processors are configured to arrange phase tracking reference signal (PT-RS) resource elements (REs) and data REs as an arrangement for a transmission based on one or more diversity factors. The one or more diversity factors include a time domain and a frequency domain. The one or more processors are also configured to provide the transmission having the PT-RS REs to the RF interface for transmission to a user equipment (UE) device.Type: GrantFiled: May 4, 2018Date of Patent: September 14, 2021Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Yushu Zhang, Alexei Davydov, Wook Bong Lee, Gang Xiong, Xinyue Zheng