Patents by Inventor Alistair McFarlane

Alistair McFarlane has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 11317325
    Abstract: A device, system, and method improve a call setup time. The method is performed at a device configured to establish first and second network connections where the second network performs circuit switched voice calls. The method includes receiving a call input to perform a call and determining whether the device is registered with a first feature to perform the call based on an Internet Protocol (IP). When the device is registered with the first feature, the method includes determining whether timeouts for attempting previous IP calls is greater than a threshold. When the timeouts are at least the threshold, the method includes deregistering from the first feature and performing a circuit switched fallback (CSFB) procedure including a handover from the first network to the second network. The method includes performing the call as a circuit switched call.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Sundarraman Balasubramanian, Vijay Venkataraman, Nordine Kadri, Alistair McFarlane
  • Publication number: 20190373515
    Abstract: A device, system, and method improve a call setup time. The method is performed at a device configured to establish first and second network connections where the second network performs circuit switched voice calls. The method includes receiving a call input to perform a call and determining whether the device is registered with a first feature to perform the call based on an Internet Protocol (IP). When the device is registered with the first feature, the method includes determining whether timeouts for attempting previous IP calls is greater than a threshold. When the timeouts are at least the threshold, the method includes deregistering from the first feature and performing a circuit switched fallback (CSFB) procedure including a handover from the first network to the second network. The method includes performing the call as a circuit switched call.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2018
    Publication date: December 5, 2019
    Inventors: Sundarraman BALASUBRAMANIAN, Vijay Venkataraman, Nordine Kadri, Alistair McFarlane
  • Publication number: 20180082285
    Abstract: The disclosed technology addresses the need in the art for a mobile wallet application that can intelligently select a transaction based on a geographic region in which the card was issued, and in which a transaction is to take place. The present technology can determine a region where a transaction card was issued from, and designate the transaction card as the default card for the determined region, and can automatically select the card for use with transactions taking place in the determined region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2016
    Publication date: March 22, 2018
    Inventors: Alosious Pradeep Prabhakar, Alistair McFarlane, Mohammad Amin Malek, Simon Tulloch