Apple Patents Granted
Patents granted to Apple by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Patent number: 11985607Abstract: An apparatus of user equipment (UE) includes processing circuitry coupled to a memory, where to configure the UE for dynamic transmit power adjustment, the processing circuitry is to decode baseband configuration information received from a base station. The baseband configuration information including at least a modulation and coding scheme (MCS), resource block (RB) allocation, and carrier assignment for uplink (UL) transmission and downlink (DL) reception. A communication mode is selected based on the baseband configuration information. An additional maximum power reduction (A-MPR) is determined based on the baseband configuration information and the selected communication mode. UL data is encoded for transmission to the base station via the selected communication mode and using transmit power adjusted based on the determined A-MPR. New signaling enhancements between the UE and the network (on a Uu interface) and between two UEs (on a PC5 sidelink interface) are also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: November 27, 2019Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Amith Vikram Chincholi, Anthony Tsangaropoulos, Sumit Verma, Mariam Motamed, Divyaprakash Bhojkumar
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Patent number: 11980480Abstract: Detecting user contact with one or more electrodes of a physiological signal sensor can be used to ensure physiological signals measured by the physiological signal sensor meet waveform characteristics (e.g., of a clinically accurate physiological signal). In some examples, a mobile and/or wearable device can comprise sensing circuitry, stimulation circuitry, and processing circuitry. The stimulation circuit can drive one or more stimulation signals on one or more electrodes, the resulting signal(s) can be measured (e.g., by the sensing circuitry), and the processing circuitry can determine whether a user is in contact with the electrode(s). Additionally or alternatively, in some examples, mobile and/or wearable device can comprise saturation detection circuitry, and the processing circuitry can determine whether the sensing circuitry is saturated.Type: GrantFiled: August 22, 2022Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Chad A. Bossetti, Thomas J. Sullivan, Xiaoyu Guo, Paras Samsukha, Anirban Chatterjee
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Patent number: 11985725Abstract: Techniques, systems, and devices to support small data transfers are described. A first node, such as a gNodeB or an eNodeB, can perform operations that include receiving a resume request from a user equipment (UE) that is in an inactive state, the resume request including a small data indication, where context information for the UE resides at a second node; transmitting a retrieve UE context request to the second node, the retrieve UE context request including the small data indication; receiving a UE context response from the second node; transmitting, by the first node, a resume response to the UE to cause the UE to switch to a connected state; processing uplink data from the UE; and transmitting a release message to the UE to cause the UE to switch to the inactive state. The release message can be based on RRC release information received from the second node.Type: GrantFiled: March 18, 2020Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Jaemin Han, Yi Guo, Alexander Sirotkin, Sudeep Palat
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Patent number: 11983316Abstract: In one implementation, a method is performed for selecting a UI element with eye tracking-based attention accumulators. The method includes: while a first UI element is currently selected, detecting a gaze direction directed to a second UI element; in response to detecting the gaze direction directed to the second UI element, decreasing a first attention accumulator value associated with the first UI element and increasing a second attention accumulator value associated with the second UI element; in accordance with a determination that the second attention accumulator value exceeds the first attention accumulator value, deselecting the first UI element and selecting the second UI element; and in accordance with a determination that the second attention accumulator value does not exceed the first attention accumulator value, maintaining selection of the first UI element.Type: GrantFiled: January 12, 2023Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: Gregory Lutter, Bryce L. Schmidtchen
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Patent number: 11985733Abstract: Technology for a user equipment (UE), operable to generate an enhanced buffer status report (eBSR) is disclosed. The UE can identify packets for uplink transmission. The UE can filter the packets for uplink transmission, to identify a number of small packets pending for transmission and a number of larger packets, relative to the small packets, that are pending for transmission in the uplink transmission. The UE can encode the eBSR for transmission to a next generation node B (gNB), wherein the eBSR includes information identifying the number of small packets pending for transmission. The UE can have a memory interface configured to send to a memory the number of small packets pending for transmission.Type: GrantFiled: July 8, 2022Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: Jerome Parron, Hyung-Nam Choi, Jing Zhu, Marcus Mertens, Christian Hofmann, Sudeep Palat
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Patent number: 11983810Abstract: A method is performed at an electronic device with one or more processors and a non-transitory memory. The method includes obtaining hair curve data that represents a plurality of hair strands. Each of the plurality of hair strands includes a respective plurality of hair points. The method includes projecting the plurality of hair strands to a hair mesh that is associated with a virtual agent. The method includes rendering a first subset of the plurality of hair strands in order to generate a hair texture based on a corresponding portion of the projection. The method includes rendering the hair texture in association with the virtual agent in order to generate a display render. In some implementations, the method includes changing the number of hair strands rendered during a particular rendering cycle, enabling dynamic generation of hair textures across rendering cycles.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2022Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventor: Mariano Merchante
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Patent number: 11985506Abstract: In some embodiments, an electronic device performs techniques related to displaying personalized workout suggestions based on completed workouts. In some embodiments, an electronic device performs techniques related to starting an audio-based workout. In some embodiments, an electronic device performs techniques related to displaying information about a workout during playback of workout content. In some embodiments, an electronic device performs techniques related to displaying information about physical activity of a user relative to a group of users. In some embodiments, an electronic device performs techniques related to coordinating display of workout content among multiple devices.Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 2022Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Lynne Devine, Joel Angelone, Julie A. Arney, Niharika Milind Bedekar, Jay Blahnik, Gary Ian Butcher, Edward Chao, David Clark, Anthony D'Auria, Michael D. Ford, Eryn Hales, Zheng X. Hong, Molly Pray Wiebe
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Patent number: 11984661Abstract: An electronic device may include first and second phased antenna arrays and a triplet of first, second, and third ultra-wideband antennas. An antenna module in the device may include a dielectric substrate. The first and second arrays and the triplet may be formed on the dielectric substrate. The third and second ultra-wideband antennas may be separated by a gap. The first array may be laterally interposed between the third and second ultra-wideband antennas within the gap. The third ultra-wideband antenna may be laterally interposed between the first phased antenna array and at least some of the second array. An integrated circuit may be mounted to the dielectric substrate using an interposer. The antenna module may occupy a minimal amount of space within the device and may be less expensive to manufacture relative to scenarios where the arrays and the ultra-wideband antennas are formed on separate substrates.Type: GrantFiled: September 21, 2020Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Yi Jiang, Jiangfeng Wu, Siwen Yong, Hao Xu, Ana Papio Toda, Carlo di Nallo, Michael D. Quinones, Mattia Pascolini, Amin Tayebi, Aaron J. Cooper, Per Jakob Helander, Johan Avendal
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Patent number: 11985536Abstract: In some aspects, the present disclosure relates to a method for performing packet flow description (PFD) management, the method including establishing a Quality-of-Service (QoS) flow between a user equipment (UE) and a core network (CN) for a data flow of an application, creating, by the UE, a UE-requested packet flow description (PFD) upon a change in the data flow, sending, from the UE to the CN, a request to the CN for updating a CN PFD to an updated PFD using the UE-requested PFD, receiving, at the UE from the CN, a downlink (DL) packet mapped to the QoS flow using the updated PFD.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2021Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Yingjie Zhao, Longda Xing, Rangakrishna Nallandigal, Jason Ke
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Patent number: 11985629Abstract: Technology is disclosed for a vehicle-capable user equipment (vUE) operable for sensing-based distributed scheduling 5 of event-based mission critical (MC) vehicle-to everything (V2X) traffic. The vUE can sense sidelink control information (SCI) for semi persistent scheduling (SPS) resource selection from one or more SCI messages received in one or more physical sidelink control channels (PSCCHs) from one or more neighboring vUEs. The vUE can identify: a number of MC resources to transmit event10 based MC data with a selected number of repetitions within a latency budget, wherein the MC resources include one or more of MC-SCI or MC data with the selected number of repetitions; and a number of available resources to transmit event-based MC data within the latency budget. The vUE can select revocable resources from one or more scheduled low-priority resources based on the sensed SCI for SPS resource selection.Type: GrantFiled: November 18, 2019Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: Satish Jha, Kathiravetpillai Sivanesan, Vesh Raj Sharma Banjade, Yaser Fouad, Arvind Merwaday, Lu Lu, S. M. Iftekharul Alam, Kuilin Clark Chen, Yi Zhang
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Patent number: 11985552Abstract: Systems, devices, and techniques for handover and false base station detection in a wireless communication network are described. A described technique performed by a user equipment (UE) includes receiving, from a source base station of a wireless network, a handover command to indicate a handover to a target base station for communication in the wireless network; receiving information from the target base station; determining whether the target base station is a legitimate base station of the wireless network based on the information from the target base station and handover information included in the handover command; and performing a handover based on the handover command and a determination that the target base station is the legitimate base station.Type: GrantFiled: June 17, 2020Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Abhijeet Kolekar, Bharat Shrestha
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Patent number: 11985652Abstract: Systems and methods for enhancing the use of pre-emptive buffer status reports (pre-BSRs) in wireless communications systems implementing integrated access and backhaul (IAB) networks are disclosed herein. In some cases, an IAB node can re-classify the LCGs of one or more incoming data flows according to such pre-BSR usage. This may involve the use of and extended medium access control (MAC) control element (MAC CE) having more LCG bits than previously contemplated, having sub-LCG bits, or that includes further LCG classification information bits. Other embodiments use a priority index for LCGs in an extended pre-BSR MAC CE. The priority index may include one or more of a priority field, a prioritized bit rate (PBR), and/or a bucket size duration (BSD) that is reported to an IAB donor. Other embodiments leverage the provision of additional grants from an IAB node to a child IAB node to reduce unwanted pre-BSR effects.Type: GrantFiled: January 14, 2021Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: Sarma V. Vangala, Fangli Xu, Haijing Hu, Murali Narasimha, Naveen Kumar R Palle Venkata, Ralf Rossbach, Sethuraman Gurumoorthy, Sree Ram Kodali, Yuqin Chen, Zhibin Wu
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Patent number: 11985463Abstract: This disclosure includes several different features suitable for use in circumaural and supra-aural headphones designs. Designs that include earpad assemblies that improve acoustic isolation are discussed. User convenience features that include automatically detecting the orientation of the headphones on a user's head are also discussed. Various power-saving features, design features, sensor configurations and user comfort features are also discussed.Type: GrantFiled: May 15, 2023Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: Edward Siahaan, Daniel R. Bloom, Jason J. LeBlanc, Phillip Qian
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Patent number: 11985609Abstract: Some embodiments include a processor that receive configuration information from a base station, and store based on the configuration information, a power control (PC) parameter set of a PC process that corresponds to a downlink (DL) reference signal (RS) or a beam-pair link (BPL), where the PC parameter set includes a path loss scaling factor, a command to perform a closed-loop PC process, or a path loss change parameter to be used to trigger a power headroom report (PHR). The processor can perform a PC procedure with respect to the DL RS or the BPL based on the PC parameter set, calculate a path loss estimate based on a downlink reference signal or the BPL, determine the PHR based on the path loss estimate and the path loss change parameter, calculate a power headroom value based on the PC parameter set, and transmit the PHR including the power headroom value.Type: GrantFiled: December 2, 2022Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventor: Honglei Miao
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Patent number: 11985781Abstract: A component for an electronic device can include a metal injection molded (MIM) metallic body that at least partially defines an exterior surface. The metallic body can have an average porosity less than 1% in a first region that extends from the external surface to a depth of at least 100 microns below the external surface, and an average porosity greater than 1% in a second region adjacent to the first region.Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2021Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: Herng-Jeng Jou, Hoishun Li, James A. Yurko
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Patent number: 11983035Abstract: A portable electronic device can include a housing that at least partially defines an internal volume and an external surface of the device. The housing can include an electromagnetically transparent portion that partially defines the exterior surface. The portable electronic device can include an antenna disposed in the internal volume and a sensing circuit disposed in the internal volume to receive a signal transmitted from the antenna.Type: GrantFiled: September 11, 2020Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: Richard A. Davis, Istvan J. Szini, Matthew H. Fong
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Patent number: 11985530Abstract: The present application relates to devices and components including apparatus, systems, and methods for performing body proximity sensing operations based on uplink or measurement gaps.Type: GrantFiled: May 4, 2021Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Jie Cui, Qiming Li, Dawei Zhang, Hong He, Huaning Niu, Manasa Raghavan, Xiang Chen, Yang Tang
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Patent number: 11985713Abstract: The embodiments set forth herein disclose techniques for enabling a user device to seamlessly establish a secure, high-bandwidth wireless connection with a vehicle accessory system to enable the user device to wirelessly stream user interface (UI) information to the vehicle accessory system. To implement this technique, a lower-bandwidth wireless technology (e.g., Bluetooth) is used as an initial means for establishing a Wi-Fi pairing between the user device and the vehicle accessory system. Wi-Fi parameters associated with a Wi-Fi network provided by the vehicle accessory system can be communicated to the user device using the lower-bandwidth wireless technology. A secure Wi-Fi connection can then be established between the user device and the vehicle accessory system using the provided Wi-Fi parameters. The embodiments also disclose a technique for enabling the user device to automatically reconnect with the vehicle accessory system in a seamless manner (e.g., when returning to a vehicle).Type: GrantFiled: May 2, 2022Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Daniel R. Borges, Sriram Hariharan, Matthew L. Semersky, Michael J. Giles, Andre M. Boule, Brian D. Pietsch, Artiom Shamis, Ganesha Adkasthala Ganapathi Bata, Christopher R. Whitney, Tanya G. Kancheva, Friedrich W. Drees
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Patent number: 11985661Abstract: Systems and methods provide channel state information (CSI) measurement based on measuring a demodulation reference signal (DMRS) for a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) transmission. A UE may determine the DMRS for the PDSCH transmission with frequency hopping, and measure the DMRS for the PDSCH transmission to determine a CSI measurement. The UE may then report the CSI measurement to a base station.Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2021Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: Yushu Zhang, Chunxuan Ye, Dawei Zhang, Haitong Sun, Huaning Niu, Oghenekome Oteri, Seyed Ali Akbar Fakoorian, Wei Zeng, Weidong Yang
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Patent number: 11985544Abstract: Disclosed herein are systems and methods of handling user traffic in an integrated access backhaul (IAB) network. For instance, a data counter for two or more of a plurality of user equipment (UE) bearers handled by an IAB node can be configured. Data corresponding to the two or more UE bearers of the plurality of UE bearers can be received. A first UE bearer can be selected. The first UE bearer is the UE bearer having the lowest data counter value of the two or more UE bearers. Data corresponding to the first UE bearer can be transferred to a mobile terminal (MT) in the IAB node. The data counter for the first UE bearer can be increased by a total size of the transferred data.Type: GrantFiled: February 12, 2020Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventor: Murali Narasimha
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Patent number: 11985539Abstract: Embodiments may relate to identifying, by a baseband processor, an amount of data in a data radio bearer (DRB) buffer of the baseband processor. Embodiments further relate to determining, by the baseband processor based on an indication from an application processor of the electronic device, an amount of data in at least one buffer of the application processor. Embodiments further relate to generating, by the baseband processor based at least in part on the amount of data in the DRB buffer and the amount of data in the at least one buffer of the application processor, a buffer status report (BSR). Other embodiments may be described or claimed.Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 2021Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Vijay Venkataraman, Martin Kugler, Ralf Itjeshorst, Ahmed Salem, Murtaza Shikari, Srinivasan Nimmala, Tong Liu, Cahya A. Masputra
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Patent number: 11985563Abstract: Embodiments are presented herein of apparatuses, systems, and methods for mitigation of secondary cell failures. A user equipment (UE) may establish communication with a macro cellular base station. The UE may perform a signal quality measurement of a small cell base station and compare the signal quality measurement to a threshold. Based on the signal quality measurement exceeding the threshold, the UE may attempt to additionally connect to the small cell base station. In response to a radio link failure of the second base station, the UE may modify the first threshold. In response to subsequent failures to additionally connect to the small cell base station using the modified first threshold, the UE may disable connections to the small cell base station.Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 2022Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Nihar Garg, Ehsan Ahmed Quadri Syed, Karthik Anantharaman, Mohamed L. Haidara, Shashikant Tiwari, Sree Ram Kodali, Sridhar Prakasam, Vijay Venkataraman
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Patent number: 11977726Abstract: An electronic device with a display, a touch-sensitive surface, and one or more sensors that detect intensities of contacts on the touch-sensitive surface displays, on the display, a user interface. While displaying the user interface, the electronic device detects an input that includes a contact on the touch-sensitive surface. In response to detecting the input while displaying the user interface, and while continuing to detect the input on the touch-sensitive surface: If an intensity of the contact satisfies an activation intensity threshold, the electronic device performs a first operation associated with the activation intensity threshold. The activation intensity threshold is determined based on whether or not prior inputs by the user on the touch-sensitive surface exceed a respective intensity threshold. If an intensity of the contact does not satisfy an activation intensity threshold, the electronic device forgoes performing the first operation associated with the activation intensity threshold.Type: GrantFiled: August 23, 2021Date of Patent: May 7, 2024Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: Aram D. Kudurshian, Christopher P. Foss, Gary I. Butcher, Patrick L Coffman, Nicole M. Wells, Wayne C. Westerman
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Patent number: 11979836Abstract: Methods and systems in which a portable electronic device can be voice activated are disclosed. The portable electronic device can be a multi-function electronic device. The voice activation can be robust and context sensitive. The voice activation can also be utilized without any preparatory user action with respect to the portable electronic device. The portable electronic device can also interact with a media system.Type: GrantFiled: April 26, 2023Date of Patent: May 7, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Daniel Freeman, Derek B. Barrentine
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Patent number: 11977683Abstract: An electronic device includes a housing defining an aperture. An input device extends through the aperture and has a user input surface external to the housing. An inertial actuator is mechanically and fixedly coupled to the input device and positioned within the housing. A mechanical wave dampener provides mechanical wave dampening between the input device and the housing. The electronic device enables haptic feedback to be provided locally to the input device. In some cases, the mechanical wave dampener may dampen shaking of the input device with respect to the housing by at least an order of magnitude.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2021Date of Patent: May 7, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Riccardo Tarelli, Muhammad F. Hossain
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Patent number: 11978385Abstract: This disclosure provides various techniques for providing fine-grain digital and analog pixel compensation to account for voltage error across an electronic display. By employing a two-dimensional digital compensation and a local analog compensation, a fine-grain and robust pixel compensation scheme may be provided to the electronic display.Type: GrantFiled: August 16, 2022Date of Patent: May 7, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Yao Shi, Wei H Yao, Hyunwoo Nho, Jie Won Ryu, Kingsuk Brahma, Li-Xuan Chuo, Hyunsoo Kim, Myungjoon Choi, Ce Zhang, Alex H Pai, Shengkui Gao, Rungrot Kitsomboonloha, Shatam Agarwal, Vehbi Calayir, Chaohao Wang, Steven N Hanna, Pei-En Chang
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Patent number: 11977731Abstract: The disclosed embodiments are directed to a media capture lock affordance for a graphical user interface displayed by a media capture device. The media capture lock affordance allows a user to lock and unlock a capture state of the media capture device using a simple and intuitive touch gesture that can be applied by the user's finger (e.g., the user's thumb) while holding the media capture device in one hand.Type: GrantFiled: September 3, 2021Date of Patent: May 7, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Anton M. Davydov, Jane E. Koo, Johnnie B. Manzari, Grant R. Paul, William A. Sorrentino, III, Andre Souza Dos Santos, Daniel J. Wiersema
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Patent number: 11977411Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to context-specific user interfaces. In some embodiments, methods are provided for displaying a watch user interface including a clock face and a user interface element at least partially surrounding the clock face. In some embodiments, methods are further provided for receiving a request to add a respective complication to a respective location on the clock face and, in response to receiving the request: in accordance with a determination that the respective complication is a first complication, displaying the first complication in the respective location and replacing at least a portion of the user interface element with content associated with the first complication; and in accordance with a determination that the respective complication is a second complication, displaying the second complication in the respective location without replacing the portion of the user interface element with content associated with the second complication.Type: GrantFiled: April 11, 2022Date of Patent: May 7, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Kevin Will Chen, Taylor G. Carrigan, Alan C. Dye, Nicholas D. Felton, Aled Hywel Williams, Christopher Wilson
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Patent number: 11977951Abstract: Various implementations disclosed herein include devices, systems, and methods that match image portions of a first set of image portions and image portions of another set of image portions. This may be performed in a such a way that the sum of descriptor distances of the matched image portions is optimized in a globally optimal way. In some implementations, the matching is subject to one or more constraints, e.g., ensuring that each image portion of the first data set is matched with at least one image portion of the second data set and ensuring that each image portion of the second data set is matched with only one image portion of the first data set.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2023Date of Patent: May 7, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Jean-Charles Bernard Marcel Bazin, Anselm Grundhoefer, Arun Srivatsan Rangaprasad
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Patent number: 11978035Abstract: A wireless device can store account identifiers and facilitate transactions. The wireless device can be loaded with user account identifiers and can be presented to various checkpoint devices. When presented, the wireless device can transmit a selected account identifier to the checkpoint device. In the context of a purchase transaction, the checkpoint device can be a point-of-sale terminal and the account data can be financial account data. In some instances, the wireless device can also facilitate a purchase transaction, e.g., by obtaining information about products to be purchased, constructing a purchase order from the product information, and transmitting the purchase order to a point-of-sale terminal.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2021Date of Patent: May 7, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventor: Zachary Maragoudakis
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Patent number: 11979354Abstract: Some aspects of this disclosure relate to apparatuses and methods for implementing designs for configurations of resource elements to carry reference signals for a user equipment (UE). A reference signal can be processed by the UE according to the configuration of resource elements to carry reference signals. The configurations can be determined by the base station, and received from the base station by the UE. The base station determines the configurations based on information or parameters provided by the UE, e.g., a coherence bandwidth of the channel, a coherence time of the channel, a preference associated with channel status information reference signal, or a preference associated with demodulation reference signal for the UE.Type: GrantFiled: October 16, 2020Date of Patent: May 7, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Sigen Ye, Wei Zeng, Dawei Zhang, Oghenekome Oteri, Haitong Sun, Yushu Zhang, Chunxuan Ye
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Patent number: 11979236Abstract: A device of a New Radio (NR) User Equipment (UE), a method and a machine readable medium to implement the method. The device includes a Radio Frequency (RF) interface, and processing circuitry coupled to the RF interface, the processing circuitry to: determine that the UE is configured with a feature of multiple Physical Uplink Control Channel (PUCCH) resources with HARQ-ACK feedback within a slot; determine a Physical Uplink Control Channel (PUCCH) resource to carry Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request Acknowledgment (HARQ-ACK) feedback in response to a scheduled Physical Downlink Shared Channel (PDSCH) resource; and encode for transmission to a NR evolved NodeB (gNodeB) the PUCCH resource, the PUCCH resource to carry the HARQ-ACK feedback and: another PUCCH resource carrying Uplink Control Information (UCI) other than HARQ-ACK feedback, and a scheduled Physical Uplink Shared Channel (PUSCH) resource.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2019Date of Patent: May 7, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Gang Xiong, Debdeep Chatterjee, Fatemeh Hamidi-Sepehr, Toufiqul Islam, Sergey Panteleev
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Patent number: 11979945Abstract: This disclosure relates to techniques for a wireless device to determine a radio access technology availability indicator to present. A wireless device may establish a wireless link with a cellular network via a cell that operates according to a first radio access technology. The wireless device may determine if access to the cellular network is also available via a cell that operates according to a second radio access technology, by configuration by the serving cell or from another standalone cell. The wireless device may select a radio access technology availability indicator to present based at least in part on determining if access to the cellular network is also available via a cell that operates according to the second radio access technology.Type: GrantFiled: September 14, 2022Date of Patent: May 7, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Sofheem Mohammed, Rohit Thareja, Vijay Venkataraman, Shivani Suresh Babu
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Patent number: 11977729Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to user interfaces for navigating and providing physical activity information.Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 2023Date of Patent: May 7, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Julie A. Arney, Chandler S. Bachman, Jay K. Blahnik, Edward Chao, David S. Clark, Brett L. Lareau, Emily Pedersen, Matthew M. Sun, Eduardo Valencia Paz
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Patent number: 11978436Abstract: Systems and processes for operating an intelligent automated assistant are provided. For example, an intelligent automated assistant obtains a static vocabulary entry for an application and registers the static vocabulary entry to a knowledge base. While the application is running, the intelligent automated assistant receives a request from the application to register a dynamic vocabulary entry, and also registers the dynamic vocabulary entry. Upon receiving a user input, the intelligent automated assistant determines whether a matching vocabulary entry for the application has been registered and causes the application to perform a task based on the matching vocabulary entry.Type: GrantFiled: September 16, 2022Date of Patent: May 7, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Lewis N. Perkins, Pierre Belin, Deniz Dizman, Kevin D. Pitolin
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Patent number: 11978098Abstract: In some implementations, a computing device may obtain an original digital media asset published to a server device along with a distributed ledger that tracks ownership of the original digital media asset. The computing device may generate a customized digital media asset that replaces the original digital media asset, and modify the distributed ledger to indicate the customization or modification of the original digital media asset and identify the customized digital media asset and the ownership thereof. The computing device may publish the customized digital media asset to a server device for distribution. Upon transfer of ownership of the customized digital media asset to a new owner, the distributed ledger may be modified to indicate the new ownership of the customized digital media asset.Type: GrantFiled: April 23, 2020Date of Patent: May 7, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Matthew W. Gaddis, Jeremy J. Templier
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Patent number: 11979721Abstract: A wearable device can provide an audio module that is operable to provide audio output from a distance away from the ears of the user. For example, the wearable device can be worn on clothing of the user and direct audio waves to the ears of the user. Such audio waves can be focused by a parametric array of speakers that limit audibility by others. Thus, the privacy of the audio directed to the user can be maintained without requiring the user to wear audio headsets on, over, or in the ears of the user. The wearable device can further include microphones and/or connections to other devices that facilitate calibration of the audio module of the wearable device. The wearable device can further include user sensors that are configured to detect, measure, and/or track one or more properties of the user.Type: GrantFiled: June 9, 2023Date of Patent: May 7, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Daniel A. Podhajny, Joshua A. Hoover, Nicholas R. Trincia, Yue Chen, Seul Bi Kim, Chad J. Miller, Kristen L. Cretella, Yi Zou, William Leith
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Patent number: 11977593Abstract: A device implementing a system for providing location based search results includes at least one processor configured to detect that a location of a device is within a location of a store or within a threshold distance of the location, and establish a connection with a wireless network of the store. The at least one processor is configured to access an intranet associated with the store, the intranet being accessed via a network identifier previously stored on the device in association with the store, and receive user input for a search. The at least one processor is configured to obtain, via the intranet, at least one of a query completion suggestion or search result having been targeted to the location of the store or the threshold distance of the location, and display the at least one of the query completion suggestion or the search result in association with the search.Type: GrantFiled: June 15, 2021Date of Patent: May 7, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Anubhav Malhotra, John M. Hornkvist
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Patent number: 11979759Abstract: In a communication system comprising user equipment (UE) and a radio access network (RAN) comprising a plurality of cells is configured for receiving, by the UE, a radio resource control (RRC) information element (IE) indicating a high speed scenario (HST); and monitoring, by the UE in response to receiving the RRC IE indicating HST, a first number of frequency carriers that is reduced relative to a second number of frequency carriers monitored by the UE during a non-HST.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2020Date of Patent: May 7, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Qiming Li, Yuhan Zhou, Jie Cui, Yang Tang, Shuang Tian
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Patent number: 11977573Abstract: Techniques are disclosed for automatic tagging of terms within a document and generating visual representations specifying the identifications to terms in the document and tags assigned to each term. Particularly, responsive to obtaining a document, a term auto-tagging system can implement machine learning and/or natural language processing techniques to compare terms included in the document with a database maintaining a mapping of terms and tags corresponding to each term to assign one or more tags to relevant terms. The identified terms and tags can be provided in a visual representation for processing/review at a client device, and the visual representation can be modified according to actions selected for the identified terms. The modified visual representation can be provided to a client device, and metadata for each term/tag can be uploaded to a database for training the term auto-tagging system.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2021Date of Patent: May 7, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Nirali K. Sanghvi, Andrew C. Cofano, Connor R. Batch, Kenneth Samuel, Veerandhar Veluvolu, Vlad Costin Pirvu, Nikita Dubnov
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Patent number: 11979768Abstract: Embodiments of a system and method for providing DRX enhancements in LTE systems are generally described herein. In some embodiments, a system control module is provided for controlling communications via a communications interface. A processor is coupled to the system control module and is arranged to implement an inactivity timer and an on-duration timer for determining an active time for monitoring subframes on the physical downlink control channel for control signals, the processor further monitoring subframes after the active time.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2022Date of Patent: May 7, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Youn Hyoung Heo, Yujian Zhang, Jong-Kae Fwu
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Patent number: 11978469Abstract: Signal to noise ratio, SNR, is determined in an acoustic ambient environment of an against-the-ear audio device worn by a user, wherein the acoustic ambient environment contains speech by a talker. When the SNR is above a threshold, dynamic range control is applied, as positive gain versus input level, to an audio signal from one or more microphones of the audio device. When the SNR is below the threshold, the dynamic range control applies as zero gain or negative gain to the audio signal. Other aspects are also described and claimed.Type: GrantFiled: July 18, 2022Date of Patent: May 7, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: John Woodruff, Yang Lu, Tom-Davy W. Saux
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Patent number: D1025678Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2020Date of Patent: May 7, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Rebecca M. Cully, Jennifer Ross Wynn, Christopher M. Green, Christopher Daniel Peak, David Kahl Peschel, Stefan Behling, James Sherman, Vasileios Bakas
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Patent number: D1025794Type: GrantFiled: September 7, 2022Date of Patent: May 7, 2024Assignee: 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, Alexandre B. Girard, Jonathan Gomez Garcia, M. Evans Hankey, Anne-Marie Heck, Moises Hernandez Hernandez, Richard P. Howarth, Jonathan P. Ive, Julian Jaede, Duncan Robert Kerr, Kainoa Kwon-Perez, Nicolas Pedro Lylyk, Peter Russell-Clarke, Benjamin Andrew Shaffer, Clement Tissandier, Eugene Antony Whang
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Patent number: D1026016Type: GrantFiled: April 13, 2022Date of Patent: May 7, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Jae Woo Chang, Nathan de Vries, Marcel van Os
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Patent number: D1026020Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 2022Date of Patent: May 7, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Brian James Andrich, Woon Yung Choi, William Nevin Danner, Nicholas Provenzano
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Patent number: D1026023Type: GrantFiled: July 8, 2022Date of Patent: May 7, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Benjamin James Crick, Richard R. Dellinger, YunJae Kim, Eileen Y. Lee, Joseph Mark Willoughby Luxton
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Patent number: D1026026Type: GrantFiled: August 1, 2023Date of Patent: May 7, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Gary Butcher, Joseph Chan, Victoria Elaine Hinn, Jennifer Patton, Eric Lance Wilson
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Patent number: D1026944Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2022Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Benjamin Thomas Christie, Alden Maxwell Haley, Wyatt R. Mitchell
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Patent number: D1026952Type: GrantFiled: April 19, 2023Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Alan C. Dye, Bradley William Griffin, Aurelio Guzmán, Victoria Elaine Hinn