Apple Patents
Apple Inc. designs, manufactures and markets smartphones, tablets and personal computers, including the iPhone, iPad, Mac. It also produces the iPod, Apple Watch and Apple TV, as well as the operating systems and applications that support these devices. The company also sells digital content and applications through its iTunes Store, App Store, Mac App Store, iBooks Store and Apple Music.
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Publication number: 20250119780Abstract: The present application relates to devices and components including apparatus, systems, and methods for performing measurements before a radio link failure. In an example, a condition is detected by a UE in advance of a time point in which a non-terrestrial network (NTN) node is to stop providing service to the UE. The condition can be a timing-based condition related to, for example, t-service, a location-based condition related to, for example, a reference location, a coverage hole, and/or a timer condition. The UE can perform, in advance of the time point, a radio resource management (RRM) measurement in an attempt to measure a neighbor cell based on the condition.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 31, 2022Publication date: April 10, 2025Applicant: Apple Inc.Inventors: Yuqin Chen, Fangli Xu, Haijing Hu
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Publication number: 20250119789Abstract: The present application relates to devices and components, including apparatus, systems, and methods for discarding packet data units (PDUs).Type: ApplicationFiled: September 18, 2024Publication date: April 10, 2025Applicant: APPLE INC.Inventors: Ping-Heng Kuo, Sudeep Manithara Vamanan, Ralf Rossbach, Waqar Zia, Haijing Hu
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Publication number: 20250117965Abstract: A system comprises an encoder configured to compress and encode data for a three-dimensional dynamic mesh. The three-dimensional dynamic mesh is compressed and signaled using a base-mesh sub-bitstream and an atlas sub-bitstream (e.g., displacement and/or attribute sub-bitstream). The atlas sub-bitstream comprises displacement information to be applied at sub-division points of the base mesh to recreate the three-dimensional dynamic mesh at a given moment in time and may also include attribute values, such as colors, textures, etc. to be applied to the reconstructed mesh. Sub-mesh identifiers are included in tile headers of an atlas sub-bitstream that enable selective reconstruction of sub-meshes. A complimentary decoder decodes a compressed bitstream for the three-dimensional dynamic mesh, encoded such as by the encoder.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 7, 2024Publication date: April 10, 2025Applicant: Apple Inc.Inventors: Jungsun Kim, Alexandros Tourapis
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Publication number: 20250114661Abstract: A user fitness goal may be determined based at least in part on i) historical fitness data that was tracked by a fitness application during a plurality of periods that together correspond to a historical period, or ii) or a user input. Current fitness data may be tracked by the fitness application during a current period. A coaching notification may be determined based on the current fitness data and the user fitness goal. The coaching notification may correspond to progress toward achieving including a suggested action for achieving the user fitness goal prior to a conclusion of the current period. The coaching notification may be provided for presentation at a user device.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 20, 2024Publication date: April 10, 2025Applicant: Apple Inc.Inventors: Jay Kriz Blahnik, Aaron P. Thompson, David S. Clark, Julie A. Arney, Brian R. Drell, Keith P. Avery, Kevin M. Lynch
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Patent number: 12272979Abstract: The embodiments set forth a technique for coordinating notifications across computing devices placed onto a wireless charging apparatus. According to some embodiments, the technique can involve the wireless charging apparatus (1) receiving, from a first computing device, first information that includes (i) a first unique identifier (ID) associated with the first computing device, and (ii) one or more unique IDs that are each associated with a respective auxiliary computing device known to the first computing device. Subsequently, the wireless charging apparatus can receive, from a second computing device, second information that at least includes a second unique ID associated with the second computing device. Finally, the wireless charging apparatus can, in response to determining that the second unique ID is included in the one or more unique IDs, and cause both the first and second computing devices to display respective notifications in a coordinated manner.Type: GrantFiled: February 9, 2024Date of Patent: April 8, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Brandon R. Garbus, Christopher C. Jensen, Alexei E. Kosut
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Patent number: 12273827Abstract: The present disclosure relates to devices, apparatuses, and methods for enhanced PHR reporting in support of UE antenna scaling. A wireless device, which comprises at least one antenna array each comprising a plurality of antenna elements may perform antenna scaling by activating or deactivating at least one of the plurality of antenna elements (with corresponding RF chains) of one or more antenna arrays. The wireless device may generate a power headroom (PHR) report based at least on a difference between beamforming gains obtained after the antenna scaling and before the antenna scaling. The wireless device may then send the PHR report to a base station in communication with the wireless device.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2021Date of Patent: April 8, 2025Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: Xiang Chen, Anatoliy S Ioffe, Dawei Zhang, Fucheng Wang, Huaning Niu, Jie Cui, Manasa Raghavan, Qiming Li, Yang Tang
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Patent number: 12272482Abstract: Charging devices according to embodiments of the present technology may include a housing including an input configured to receive power from a power source and provide power to internal components of the charging device. The charging devices may include a ferrite. The ferrite may be coupled with electrical ground. The charging devices may also include a conductive coil seated in the ferrite. The conductive coil may be configured to generate an electromagnetic field from an AC signal.Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 2022Date of Patent: April 8, 2025Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventor: Alin Theodor Iacob
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Patent number: 12272321Abstract: Systems and methods for electronic displays to use reference voltages to control driving current of illuminators are provided. The reference voltages are used to reduce or eliminate cross talk in driving voltages among different illuminators and driving voltage variations from frame to frame. The transient performance of the driving current of the illuminator (e.g., the current rise/decline time, current overshoot issue, current settling time) may be improved by implementing the reference voltages.Type: GrantFiled: September 6, 2023Date of Patent: April 8, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Ming Sun, Nicola Rasera, Robert D Zucker, Johan L Piper, Denis M Darmon, Fabio Ongaro, Xiaofeng Wang
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Patent number: 12273253Abstract: A media streaming method is disclosed in which a network environment of a sink device engaged in media streaming is estimated and at least two network throughput estimates are developed. A first network throughput estimate may be estimated from a measurement of network performance and a second network throughput estimate may be developed from a correlation of the estimated network environment to a machine learning model representing network throughput predictions. A final throughput estimate may be developed from the first and second network throughput estimates; and a representation of media content may be selected for retrieval based on the final throughput estimate.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2023Date of Patent: April 8, 2025Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: Soutik Chakraborty, John Y. Su, Eunhee Lim, Jacob A. Baron
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Patent number: 12273201Abstract: A user equipment (UE) configured to receive a first cumulative acknowledgement (ACK) from a protocol stack of the UE at a first time, store the first cumulative ACK in a queue, receive a second cumulative ACK from the protocol stack at a second time, wherein the second time occurs after the first time, store the second cumulative ACK in the queue, discard the first cumulative ACK from the queue based on the second cumulative ACK being received after the first cumulative ACK and encapsulate the second cumulative ACK to form a radio link control (RLC) packet data unit (PDU) that is to be transmitted over the air.Type: GrantFiled: September 2, 2021Date of Patent: April 8, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Sarma V. Vangala, Alexander Sirotkin, Dawei Zhang, Fangli Xu, Haijing Hu, Naveen Kumar R. Palle Venkata, Pavan Nuggehalli, Ralf Rossbach, Sethuraman Gurumoorthy, Yuqin Chen, Zhibin Wu
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Patent number: 12271520Abstract: In some embodiments, an electronic device optionally identifies a person's face, and optionally performs an action in accordance with the identification. In some embodiments, an electronic device optionally determines a gaze location in a user interface, and optionally performs an action in accordance with the determination. In some embodiments, an electronic device optionally designates a user as being present at a sound-playback device in accordance with a determination that sound-detection criteria and verification criteria have been satisfied. In some embodiments, an electronic device optionally determines whether a person is further or closer than a threshold distance from a display device, and optionally provides a first or second user interface for display on the display device in accordance with the determination. In some embodiments, an electronic device optionally modifies the playing of media content in accordance with a determination that one or more presence criteria are not satisfied.Type: GrantFiled: January 13, 2023Date of Patent: April 8, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Avi E. Cieplinski, Jeffrey Traer Bernstein, Julian Missig, May-Li Khoe, Bianca Cheng Costanzo, Myra Mary Haggerty, Duncan Robert Kerr, Bas Ording, Elbert D. Chen
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Patent number: 12273908Abstract: A transmitting device is configured to transmit, to a second device, a medium access control (MAC) protocol data unit (PDU) comprising a plurality of MAC subPDUs, each MAC subPDU comprising at least one of a subheader, a MAC service data unit (SDU) or a MAC control element (CE), receive, from the second device, feedback indicating that the MAC PDU was received incorrectly, determine that a partial transmission scheme criteria is satisfied, transmit, to the second device, an indication that the partial transmission scheme is to be used to retransmit the MAC PDU and retransmit, to the second device, the MAC PDU using the partial transmission scheme.Type: GrantFiled: June 7, 2021Date of Patent: April 8, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Weidong Yang, Chunxuan Ye, Dawei Zhang, Fangli Xu, Haijing Hu, Haitong Sun, Hong He, Huaning Niu, Oghenekome Oteri, Ralf Rossbach, Sigen Ye, Wei Zeng
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Patent number: 12273824Abstract: User equipment includes a first antenna, a second antenna, a first transceiver coupled to the first antenna, a second transceiver coupled to the second antenna, and processing circuitry communicatively coupled to the first transceiver and the second transceiver. The first transceiver receives or transmits a first signal via the first antenna, and the second transceiver receives or transmits a second signal via the second antenna. The processing circuitry receives an indication that a signal characteristic of the first signal is less than a first threshold, and decreases power to the first antenna, the first receiver, or both, based on the signal characteristic of the first signal being less than the first threshold.Type: GrantFiled: April 22, 2024Date of Patent: April 8, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Xuan Guo, Xu Zhao, Mohamed L Haidara, Syed A Rahim, Baohua Zheng, Wenping Lou
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Patent number: 12273889Abstract: A user equipment (UE), or other network component can operate to configure different sets of resources including different sequence lengths for an uplink (UL) transmission via a UL channel. A first length or at least one of different second lengths can be selected to configure the UL transmission based on one or more conditions, which can include a coexisting radio access technology (RAT), a UE capability, an occupied channel bandwidth (OCB), the type of UL transmission or the like. The UL transmission can be based on at least one of: the first or the second sequence length such as for an initial access procedure based on the coexisting RAT and the OCB, for example.Type: GrantFiled: May 15, 2020Date of Patent: April 8, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Chunhai Yao, Hong He, Chunxuan Ye, Dawei Zhang, Haitong Sun, Jie Cui, Oghenekome Oteri, Sigen Ye, Wei Zeng, Weidong Yang, Yang Tang, Yushu Zhang
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Patent number: 12272805Abstract: A battery system includes a battery cell, a thermoelectric cooler (TEC) that cools the battery cell, a temperature sensor that detects a temperature of the battery cell, and a battery management unit (BMU) controller. The BMU controller activates the TEC to cool the battery cell in response to determining that a state of charge (SOC) of the battery cell is greater than a threshold SOC and the temperature of the battery cell is greater than a threshold temperature.Type: GrantFiled: May 7, 2021Date of Patent: April 8, 2025Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: Dapeng Wang, Jinjun Shi
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Patent number: 12273977Abstract: A high current, low dropout driver circuit is disclosed. The circuit includes a decoder configured to decode a plurality of control bits to generate a plurality of control signals, and a current source having a plurality of devices. The current source is configured to activate at least a subset of the plurality of devices using the control signals to provide a load current to a load circuit, such as a light-emitting diode (LED), using activated ones of the plurality of devices and a control voltage. A control circuit is configured to generate the control voltage based on the load current and a reference current.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2023Date of Patent: April 8, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Cristian Grecu, Nicola Rasera, Bogdan-Eugen Matei, Fabio Ongaro
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Patent number: 12273898Abstract: Techniques described herein may include a special scheduling cell (sSCell) provided for dynamic spectrum sharing (DSS). The sSCell may schedule a primary cell of a master cell group (MCG) or a primary cell of a secondary cell group (SCG). The primary cell may be referred to as a special cell or SpCell. The sSCell may be activated and/or deactivated, enter in or exit from a state of dormancy, and radio link monitoring (RLM), beam failure recovery (BFR), and cell grouping parameters may be provided. Techniques described herein include configuring a UE-specific search space (USS) with non-fallback downlink control information (DCI), USS with fallback DCI, and overall search space for DSS enhancement.Type: GrantFiled: April 5, 2021Date of Patent: April 8, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Haitong Sun, Dawei Zhang, Wei Zeng, Yushu Zhang, Hong He, Chunxuan Ye, Huaning Niu, Jie Cui, Wei Zhang
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Patent number: 12273635Abstract: Various implementations disclosed herein include devices, systems, and methods that determine a control signal before synchronous readout of a frame (or part of the frame) is performed by a sensor. Various implementations disclosed herein include devices, systems, and methods that determine event density (e.g., a dense row signal or a dense frame signal) before synchronous readout is performed by the sensor. In some implementations, the event camera is capable of operating in a first readout mode and a second readout mode based on a number of events. In the second readout mode, less data per pixel may be readout.Type: GrantFiled: November 5, 2020Date of Patent: April 8, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Nikolai E. Bock, Emanuele Mandelli, Gennady A. Manokhin
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Patent number: 12270714Abstract: A temperature sensor circuit is disclosed that uses multiple bipolar devices to generate a proportional to absolute temperature (PTAT) current and a complementary to absolute temperature (CTAT) current. A difference in the PTAT and CTAT current is evaluated using a feedback loop of an amplifier circuit which alternatively charges and discharges a capacitor to create a time-varying analog signal. A comparator circuit compares the analog signal to threshold values to generate an output digital signal whose duty cycle varies with temperature.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2022Date of Patent: April 8, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventor: Matthias Eberlein
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Patent number: 12273176Abstract: A user equipment (UE) is configured to establish a connection to a base station, wherein the base station configures the UE with a first beam corresponding to a first transmission reception point (TRP) and a second beam corresponding to a second TRP, wherein the first and second beam are in frequency range 2 (FR2) and wherein the UE does not support simultaneous reception of multiple beams in FR2, detect a beam failure during a beam failure detection (BFD) evaluation period, identify one or more candidate beams during a candidate beam detection (CBD) evaluation period and transmit a beam failure recovery (BFR) request to the base station.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2021Date of Patent: April 8, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Manasa Raghavan, Jie Cui, Qiming Li, Yushu Zhang, Yang Tang, Haitong Sun, Huaning Niu, Xiang Chen, Dawei Zhang
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Patent number: 12272261Abstract: A method is provided that includes predicting, using a language model, one or more words from a first set of words expected to be difficult for a reader, and providing the first set of words for display to the reader. The predicted one or more words in the first set of words are displayed differently from non-predicted words in the first set of words.Type: GrantFiled: July 26, 2022Date of Patent: April 8, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Daniel W. Busbridge, Jason Ramapuram, Russell Y. Webb, Paul G. Puskarich
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Patent number: 12273596Abstract: The systems described herein provide a system for presenting affordances for applications installable on electronic devices. In response to selection of one or more of the affordances, a content affordance of content provided by a corresponding application is provided.Type: GrantFiled: April 4, 2023Date of Patent: April 8, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Lucas C. Newman, Derek A. Hunter, Sandip M. Chokshi
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Patent number: 12271002Abstract: A head-mounted display a housing, two display modules, and a head support. The two display modules ae coupled to the housing. Each of the two display modules includes a display for outputting light that forms graphical content, a lens for refracting the light output by the display, and an eye illuminator. The eye illuminator includes a light-emitting diode, a flexible circuit to which the light-emitting diode is coupled, and a stiffener laminated to the flexible circuit with one or fewer layers of adhesive. The lens is removably coupled to the display indirectly by the stiffener. The head support is coupled to the housing for supporting the housing on a head of a user with the two display modules positioned to provide the graphical content to eyes of the user.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2023Date of Patent: April 8, 2025Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: Ivan S. Maric, Jan K. Quijalvo, Marinus Meursing
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Patent number: 12273875Abstract: In an example computer-implemented method, a user equipment (UE) receives first configuration data including an indication of a search space set for monitoring a wireless network for an uplink cancellation command, and second configuration including an indication to activate monitoring of the wireless network for an uplink cancellation command. The UE further receives a first physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) including scheduling information for an uplink transmission. The UE monitors the wireless communications network for the uplink cancellation command in accordance with the search space set, and receives a second PDCCH from the wireless including the uplink cancellation command, where the uplink cancellation command includes an indication to cancel a first portion of the uplink transmission. The UE cancels a transmission of the first portion of the uplink transmission.Type: GrantFiled: April 2, 2020Date of Patent: April 8, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Toufiqul Islam, Debdeep Chatterjee, Sergey Panteleev, Fatemeh Hamidi-Sepehr
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Patent number: 12273086Abstract: An electronic device may include wireless circuitry with a processor, a transceiver circuit, a front-end module, and an antenna array having multiple antennas. The front-end module may include radio-frequency splitter-combiner circuitry that splits radio-frequency signals from a single port into multiple radio-frequency signals at multiple split ports and/or combines radio-frequency signals from the multiple ports into radio-frequency signals at the single combined port. The radio-frequency splitter-combiner may include adjustable components such as switches, adjustable inductors, and/or adjustable capacitors that place the radio-frequency splitter-combiner in different configurations based on whether or not there are inactive split ports coupled to inactive antennas. This enables improved impedance matching for active split ports even while one or more split ports remain inactive, thereby reducing power loss in this mode of operation.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2022Date of Patent: April 8, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Soumya Mantha, Woorim Shin
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Patent number: 12273830Abstract: Some embodiments of this disclosure include apparatuses and methods for determining synchronization signal block (SSB) periodicity for cell reselection. In some embodiments, user equipment (UE) may establish a first connection with a first integrated access and backhaul (IAB) node using a first SSB periodicity. The UE may perform a cell reselection process and determine whether a number of candidate IAB nodes include a candidate IAB node with a previously stored candidate SSB periodicity corresponding to the candidate IAB node. If the UE identifies a candidate SSB periodicity, the UE may establish a second connection with the candidate IAB node using the candidate SSB periodicity. If the UE does not identify a previously stored candidate SSB periodicity, the UE may establish a second connection with a second IAB node using a second SSB periodicity that is less than the first SSB periodicity.Type: GrantFiled: February 13, 2020Date of Patent: April 8, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Lili Wei, Qian Li, Geng Wu
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Patent number: 12272005Abstract: Some examples of the disclosure are directed to selective display of avatars corresponding to users of electronic devices in a multi-user communication session. In some examples, when immersive content is shared in the communication session, the avatars remain displayed when presenting the content in the three-dimensional environment. In some examples, when perspective-limited immersive content is shared in the communication session, the avatars cease being displayed when presenting the content in the three-dimensional environment. In some examples, when content presented in a full-screen mode is shared in the communication session, the avatars remain displayed when presenting the content in the full-screen mode in the three-dimensional environment. In some examples, when object-bounded content is shared in the communication session, the avatars remain displayed when presenting the object-bounded content in the three-dimensional environment.Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 2023Date of Patent: April 8, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Miao Ren, Connor A. Smith, Hayden J. Lee, Bruno M. Sommer
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Patent number: 12271531Abstract: Techniques for controlling and/or moving a cursor, such as by using air gestures, are described.Type: GrantFiled: January 2, 2024Date of Patent: April 8, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Evgenii Krivoruchko, Benjamin H. Boesel, Jia Wang
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Patent number: 12273906Abstract: A cellular base station (BS) which transmits more flexible downlink control information (DCI) to the UE, and a UE capable of receiving and processing a received DCI message. The DCI message may have a DCI format of 0_1 or 0_2 and further may comprise an UL-SCH set to 0, a CSI request field of all 0s and an SRS request field having a nonzero value. The DCI message may indicate to the UE that the UE should: 1) transmit an aperiodic SRS corresponding to SRS request; and 2) that the UE should not transmit on the PUSCH. The DCI may include existing fields that specify either a slot offset or beam information useable when transmitting the aperiodic SRS. The base station may also generate a DCI message with an SRS trigger that is targeted to a plurality of UEs in a group, or a plurality of groups of UEs, for greater efficiency.Type: GrantFiled: October 12, 2020Date of Patent: April 8, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Haitong Sun, Yushu Zhang, Huaning Niu, Hong He, Wei Zeng, Chunxuan Ye, Oghenekome Oteri, Sigen Ye, Dawei Zhang, Chunhai Yao, Jie Cui, Yang Tang
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Patent number: 12273940Abstract: Apparatuses, systems, and methods for a user equipment device (UE) to perform methods for EPS fallback when initiating a voice call while camped on a 5G cell. The UE may camp on a 5G network by performing an IMS registration procedure/IMS SIP invite procedure with an IMS. The UE may initiate a voice call and determine that the voice call cannot be established over the 5G NR network. In response, the UE may perform a TAU procedure or an attachment procedure with a cell of a 4G network. The IMS may be transferred to the 4G network during TAU/attachment procedure. The UE may, in response to determining that it is barred from the 4G network, transition back to the 5G network and transmit, to the 5G NR network, a SIP cancel request to allow a context associated with the UE to be cleared from the IMS.Type: GrantFiled: August 13, 2020Date of Patent: April 8, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Vijay Venkataraman, Krisztian Kiss, Shashikant Tiwari, Srinivasan Nimmala, Lakshmi N. Kavuri, Shivani Suresh Babu, Sree Ram Kodali, Sridhar Prakasam, Stephen C. Schweizer, Yifan Zhu
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Patent number: 12273172Abstract: Described is an apparatus of a User Equipment (UE) operable to communicate with an Evolved Node-B (eNB) on a wireless network. The apparatus may comprise a first circuitry and a second circuitry. The first circuitry may be operable to process a Downlink (DL) transmission carrying one or more Phase Tracking Reference Signal (PT-RSes). The second circuitry may be operable to generate an Uplink (UL) transmission carrying a Layer Indicator (LI) based at least on a number of PT-RS Antenna Ports (APs) associated with the PT-RSes.Type: GrantFiled: August 4, 2023Date of Patent: April 8, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Yushu Zhang, Victor Sergeev, Guotong Wang, Alexei Davydov, Gang Xiong
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Patent number: 12271465Abstract: In accordance with some embodiments, the method includes: receiving, via the one or more input devices, a request to access a resource protected by a verification code; after receiving the request to access the resource, receiving, at the electronic device, an electronic message; and after receiving the electronic message and while displaying, via the display device, a user interface for inputting the verification code: in accordance with a determination that the electronic message includes content that meets respective criteria, wherein the respective criteria include a format requirement that the electronic message includes content that matches a predetermined format, displaying an insertion affordance that, when selected, automatically inserts the content that matches the predetermined format as a verification code in the user interface.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2022Date of Patent: April 8, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Charilaos Papadopoulos, Maureen Grace Daum, Guillaume Borios, Patrick Robert Burns
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Patent number: 12271521Abstract: Various implementations disclosed herein include devices, systems, and methods for compositing an affordance in association with a CGR object representing a physical article. In various implementations, a device includes a display, a non-transitory memory, and one or more processors coupled with the display and the non-transitory memory. In some implementations, a method includes displaying a computer-generated reality (CGR) object in a CGR environment. In some implementations, the CGR object represents a physical article. In some implementations, the method includes compositing an affordance in association with the CGR object. In some implementations, the method includes detecting an input directed to the affordance. In some implementations, the method includes, in response to detecting the input, adding an identifier identifying the physical article to a user selection queue.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 2023Date of Patent: April 8, 2025Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: Geoffrey Grant Stahl, Norman Nuo Wang
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Patent number: 12273773Abstract: Several techniques using a network slice quota (NSQ) management function provide dynamic adjustment in order to meet the limitation of data rate per network slice in the uplink and downlink wireless connections in a wireless network. In one technique, when the limit is reached, the session aggregated maximum bit rates (AMBR) per subscription level is adjusted in proportionate ratio of the maximum bit rate per subscription level per user equipment (UE). In another technique, when the limit is reached, there is a proportionate equivalent increment and decrement of session AMBR based on usage patterns of the subscription levels. In a further technique, when the limit is reached, there is a proportionate equivalent increment and decrement of slice resources based on usage patterns. In yet another technique, a quota update is attempted using the Unified Data Repository (UDR).Type: GrantFiled: May 10, 2021Date of Patent: April 8, 2025Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: Alosious Pradeep Prabhakar, Krisztian Kiss, Rohit R. Matolia, Vijay Venkataraman
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Patent number: 12274099Abstract: Disclosed herein are global shutter image sensors and methods of operating such image sensors. An image sensor includes a semiconductor wafer having a light receiving surface opposite an electrical connection surface; an oxide extending from the light receiving surface toward the electrical connection surface and at least partially surrounding a pixel region; a photodiode disposed within the pixel region; and a set of storage nodes disposed under the photodiode, between the photodiode and the electrical connection surface. The set of storage nodes comprises a first storage node and a second storage node. The storage nodes may be disposed vertically beneath the photodiode, or side by side.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2022Date of Patent: April 8, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Dajiang Yang, Hong Wei Lee, Xiaofeng Fan, Oray O. Cellek, Xiangli Li, Kai Shen
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Patent number: 12271250Abstract: An electronic device may include a display panel. When content of an image frame is expected to consume relatively higher amounts of power, a controller of the electronic device may operate a switch to change a power supply of the display panel to be a power management integrated circuit of the electronic device. However, when content of an image frame is expected to consume relatively less amounts of power, the controller may operate the switch to change the power supply of the display panel to be a power supply of an electronic display, such as a power supply used to power driver circuitry of the electronic display.Type: GrantFiled: September 21, 2022Date of Patent: April 8, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Ramana V. Rachakonda, Peter F. Holland, Rohit K. Gupta, Brad W. Simeral
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Patent number: 12272370Abstract: Implementations of the subject technology provide systems and methods for providing audio source separation for audio input, such as for audio devices having limited power and/or computing resources. The subject technology may allow an audio device to leverage processing and/or power resources of a companion device that is communicatively coupled to the audio device. The companion device may identify a noise condition of the audio device, select a source separation model based on the noise condition, and provide the source separation model to the audio device. In this way, the audio device can provide audio source separation functionality using a relatively small footprint source separation model that is specific to the noise condition in which the audio device is operated.Type: GrantFiled: October 3, 2023Date of Patent: April 8, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Carlos M. Avendano, John Woodruff, Jonathan Huang, Mehrez Souden, Andreas Koutrouvelis
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Patent number: 12272019Abstract: The creation of synthetic scenes from a combination of synthetic data and real environment data to allow for testing of extended reality (XR) applications on an electronic device is disclosed. In order to efficiently test an XR application, a scene data configuration can be specified within a synthetic service, representing a combination of different synthetic data and real environment data. In addition, scene understanding and alignment metadata can be added to the scene data. When the XR application is initiated, a synthetic scene in accordance with the scene data configuration and the added metadata can be rendered and presented on a display of the electronic device. The XR application can then be tested within the presented synthetic scene, with the application interacting with both the synthetic data and the real environment data of the synthetic scene as though it were interacting with real objects in a real environment.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 2023Date of Patent: April 8, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Przemyslaw M. Iwanowski, Joshua J. Taylor
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Patent number: 12273855Abstract: This disclosure relates to techniques for providing paging for a remote wireless device to a relay wireless device in a wireless communication system. A cellular base station may receive an indication from a relay wireless device of a relay link between the relay wireless device and a remote wireless device. The cellular base station may provide paging information for the remote wireless device to the relay wireless device based at least in part on the indication of the relay link between the relay wireless device and the remote wireless device.Type: GrantFiled: July 21, 2020Date of Patent: April 8, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Fangli Xu, Dawei Zhang, Haijing Hu, Yuqin Chen, Longda Xing, Srinivasan Nimmala, Srirang A. Lovlekar, Sethuraman Gurumoorthy, Murtaza A. Shikari, Sree Ram Kodali
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Patent number: 12271718Abstract: Systems and methods for performing binary translation include a system that is capable of translating binaries written for use in a source execution environment to binaries compatible with a target execution environment. Consistent with some embodiments, a binary translation system includes a system service and a runtime code module that exists in an application memory address space. The binary translation system translates object-level binaries corresponding to executables, linkers, libraries, and the like and stores the translation in a translation cache that is cryptographically secured to ensure that only a system having a specific key is able to access the translations. If the application or application binary has been modified since the translation was performed, the system service will ensure that the translation is removed from the cache, a new translation is performed, and all threads accessing that translation are updated to the new translation.Type: GrantFiled: June 9, 2021Date of Patent: April 8, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Cameron Zwarich, Denis Palmans
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Patent number: 12272008Abstract: Various implementations disclosed herein include devices, systems, and methods for synthesizing an environment based on an image. In various implementations, a device includes a non-transitory memory and one or more processors coupled with the non-transitory memory. In various implementations, a method includes determining an engagement score that characterizes a level of engagement between a user and a representation of a subject included in an image. In some implementations, the method includes, in response to the engagement score satisfying an engagement threshold, obtaining stored information regarding the subject, and synthesizing an environment based on the image and the stored information regarding the subject.Type: GrantFiled: July 15, 2022Date of Patent: April 8, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Ian M. Richter, Qi Shan
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Patent number: D1069453Type: GrantFiled: April 19, 2023Date of Patent: April 8, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Christopher M. Green, Sam Brown, Kully Kraig Mandon, Casey Feeney, Jean-Marc Gady
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Patent number: D1069754Type: GrantFiled: April 5, 2024Date of Patent: April 8, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Ryan Ott, Carlos M. Santana, William R. Rochowicz, Robert Boyd, Martin Gschwandtl, Guillaume Raoult, Christopher Kuh, Robert Brunner
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Patent number: D1069789Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 2024Date of Patent: April 8, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Jody Akana, Molly Anderson, Bartley K. Andre, Shota Aoyagi, Anthony Michael Ashcroft, Marine C. Bataille, Jeremy Bataillou, Abidur Rahman Chowdhury, Clara Geneviève Marine Courtaigne, Markus Diebel, Jonathan Gomez Garcia, M. Evans Hankey, Moises Hernandez Hernandez, Julian Hoenig, Richard P. Howarth, Jonathan P. Ive, Julian Jaede, Duncan Robert Kerr, Nicolas Pedro Lylyk, Marc A. Newson, Peter Russell-Clarke, Benjamin Andrew Shaffer, Joe Sung-Ho Tan, Clement Tissandier, Eugene Antony Whang
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Patent number: D1069790Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 2024Date of Patent: April 8, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Jody Akana, Molly Anderson, Bartley K. Andre, Shota Aoyagi, Anthony Michael Ashcroft, Marine C. Bataille, Jeremy Bataillou, Abidur Rahman Chowdhury, Clara Geneviève Marine Courtaigne, Markus Diebel, Jonathan Gomez Garcia, M. Evans Hankey, Moises Hernandez Hernandez, Julian Hoenig, Richard P. Howarth, Jonathan P. Ive, Julian Jaede, Duncan Robert Kerr, Nicolas Pedro Lylyk, Marc A. Newson, Peter Russell-Clarke, Benjamin Andrew Shaffer, Joe Sung-Ho Tan, Clement Tissandier, Eugene Antony Whang
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Patent number: D1069791Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 2024Date of Patent: April 8, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Jody Akana, Molly Anderson, Bartley K. Andre, Shota Aoyagi, Anthony Michael Ashcroft, Marine C. Bataille, Jeremy Bataillou, Abidur Rahman Chowdhury, Clara Geneviève Marine Courtaigne, Markus Diebel, Jonathan Gomez Garcia, M. Evans Hankey, Moises Hernandez Hernandez, Julian Hoenig, Richard P. Howarth, Jonathan P. Ive, Julian Jaede, Duncan Robert Kerr, Nicolas Pedro Lylyk, Marc A. Newson, Peter Russell-Clarke, Benjamin Andrew Shaffer, Joe Sung-Ho Tan, Clement Tissandier, Eugene Antony Whang
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Patent number: D1069808Type: GrantFiled: July 21, 2022Date of Patent: April 8, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Richard D. Lyons, Christopher I. Wilson
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Patent number: D1069811Type: GrantFiled: August 22, 2022Date of Patent: April 8, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventor: Dylan Ross Edwards
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Patent number: D1069834Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 2023Date of Patent: April 8, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Marcos Alonso Ruiz, Gary Butcher, Graham Clarke, Alan C. Dye, Grace Hwang, Jonathan P. Ive, Henrique Penha, Pavel Pivoňka
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Patent number: D1069895Type: GrantFiled: May 5, 2023Date of Patent: April 8, 2025Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Andrew Patrick Clymer, Kristína Jandová, Vincenzo Vuono