Patents by Inventor Bernd W. Adler
Bernd W. Adler 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).
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Publication number: 20240097319Abstract: An electronic device may include a first set of antennas, a second set of antennas, and a slip ring disposed between the first set of antennas and the second set of antennas. The slip ring may include a waveguide that provides a pathway for signals transmitted between the first set of and the second set of antennas. A diameter and a length of the waveguide may enable efficient transmission of the signals between the sets of antennas by reducing signal attenuation. Additionally, gaps between the sets of antennas and the slip ring may be sized to reduce radiation emitted from the electronic device. The gaps between the sets of antennas and the slip ring may enable wireless data transfer between the sets of antennas.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 30, 2023Publication date: March 21, 2024Inventors: Xiaofang Mu, Jorge L Rivera Espinoza, Bernd W Adler, Evan N Dvorak, Samuel E Vinci, Shaohua Lin
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Publication number: 20230397054Abstract: A user equipment (UE) device may communicate according to a new device category satisfying specified QoS (quality of service) requirements while also satisfying specified link budget requirements, and/or additional optimization requirements. The UE device may communicate with a cellular base station according to a first mode of operation associated with the new device category, and may switch to communicating with the cellular base station according to a second mode of operation associated with a second (pre-existing) device category in response to the link budget requirements exceeding a specified value and the quality of service requirements not being sensitive.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 17, 2023Publication date: December 7, 2023Inventors: Tarik Tabet, Awais M. Hussain, Lydi Smaini, Moustafa M. Elsayed, Syed Aon Mujtaba, Matthias Sauer, Ronald W. Dimpflmaier, Bernd W. Adler, Christian W. Mucke
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Patent number: 11778516Abstract: A user equipment (UE) device may communicate according to a new device category satisfying specified QoS (quality of service) requirements while also satisfying specified link budget requirements, and/or additional optimization requirements. The UE device may communicate with a cellular base station according to a first mode of operation associated with the new device category, and may switch to communicating with the cellular base station according to a second mode of operation associated with a second (pre-existing) device category in response to the link budget requirements exceeding a specified value and the quality of service requirements not being sensitive.Type: GrantFiled: April 15, 2022Date of Patent: October 3, 2023Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Tarik Tabet, Awais M. Hussain, Lydi Smaini, Moustafa M. Elsayed, Syed Aon Mujtaba, Matthias Sauer, Ronald W. Dimpflmaier, Bernd W. Adler, Christian W. Mucke
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Publication number: 20230222076Abstract: Embodiments relate to an integrated circuit of an electronic device that coordinates activities with another integrated circuit of the electronic device. The integrated circuit includes an interface circuit and a processor circuit. The interface circuit communicates over a multi-drop bus connected to multiple electronic components. The processor circuit receives an authorization request from the integrated circuit via the interface circuit and the multi-drop bus. The received authorization request relates to authorization to perform an activity on the other integrated circuit. In response to receiving the authorization request, the processor circuit determines whether the other integrated circuit is authorized to execute the activity.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 21, 2023Publication date: July 13, 2023Inventors: Helena Deirdre O’Shea, Camille Chen, Vijay Kumar Ramamurthi, Alon Paycher, Matthias Sauer, Bernd W. Adler
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Publication number: 20230199084Abstract: The present application relates to devices and components including apparatus, systems, and methods for connections aggregation among related devices for edge computing. Such techniques may include a grouping of related devices as an edge group, and assignment of a proxy device for distribution of edge server discovery information among the edge group.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 21, 2022Publication date: June 22, 2023Applicant: APPLE INC.Inventors: Biljana Badic, Babar Qaisrani, Bernd W. Adler, Christian Drewes, Matthias Sauer, Mikhail Wilhelm, Sabine Roessel
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Patent number: 11640365Abstract: Embodiments relate to an integrated circuit of an electronic device that coordinates activities with another integrated circuit of the electronic device. The integrated circuit includes an interface circuit and a processor circuit. The interface circuit communicates over a multi-drop bus connected to multiple electronic components. The processor circuit receives an authorization request from the integrated circuit via the interface circuit and the multi-drop bus. The received authorization request relates to authorization to perform an activity on the other integrated circuit. In response to receiving the authorization request, the processor circuit determines whether the other integrated circuit is authorized to execute the activity.Type: GrantFiled: October 13, 2021Date of Patent: May 2, 2023Inventors: Helena Deirdre O'Shea, Camille Chen, Vijay Kumar Ramamurthi, Alon Paycher, Matthias Sauer, Bernd W. Adler
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Publication number: 20230086510Abstract: A system may include a client device running multiple client-side applications and server equipment running multiple server-side applications. One or more traffic aggregators may be provided between the client-side applications and the server-side applications. Each traffic aggregator may aggregate application traffic from the multiple applications to form one or more classes of aggregated data. Interfaces may be provided between the traffic aggregators and the applications to customize application traffic. Traffic aggregators in the system may be dynamically updated.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 21, 2021Publication date: March 23, 2023Inventors: Stefan Meyer, Thorsten Clevorn, Bernd W. Adler, Bernhard Raaf, Josef Hausner
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Publication number: 20230086286Abstract: An electronic device may include wireless circuitry having one or more radios and one or more antennas. A first radio may be configured to establish a communication link with an external device, a second radio may be configured to establish a communication link with network equipment. One or more processors in the electronic device may receive information indicative of a duration and termination of the communication link with the external device to operate the second radio in one or more operational modes. If desired, one of the operational modes may include a low-power idle mode during which the second radio performs discontinuous reception while pausing network paging monitoring.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 21, 2021Publication date: March 23, 2023Inventors: Thorsten Clevorn, Stefan Meyer, Bernd W. Adler, Bernhard Raaf, Josef Hausner
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Publication number: 20230087649Abstract: In some embodiments, an apparatus includes first circuitry configured to perform a computation that uses a matrix as an input and second circuitry configured to perform the computation, where the second circuitry includes a smaller amount of processing resources than the first circuitry. The second circuitry may begin performing the computation on at least a portion of a set of input data. One or more storage elements may store context information for the second circuitry, where the context information includes outputs from the computation performed on the at least a portion of the set of input data. Based on the at least a portion of the set of input data, the apparatus may activate the first circuitry to complete the computation, where the completion uses the outputs of the computation performed by the second circuitry, included in the context information, as an intermediate result.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 30, 2022Publication date: March 23, 2023Inventors: Matthias Sauer, Bernd W. Adler
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Patent number: 11546843Abstract: In some embodiments, an apparatus includes first and second signal processing circuitry configured to perform signal processing operations and second signal processing circuitry configured to perform signal processing operations, wherein the second signal processing circuitry includes a smaller amount of processing resources than the first signal processing circuitry. In some embodiments, the apparatus includes one or more storage elements configured to store context information for the second signal processing circuitry and the one or more storage elements are accessible to the first signal processing circuitry. The apparatus may be configured to select one of the first and second signal processing circuitry based on the complexity of input problems, the amount of transmission resources assigned to the apparatus, etc. In some embodiments, intermediate results of from the second signal processing circuitry are used as inputs to an operation performed by the first signal processing circuitry.Type: GrantFiled: November 25, 2020Date of Patent: January 3, 2023Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Matthias Sauer, Bernd W. Adler
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Publication number: 20220240127Abstract: A user equipment (UE) device may communicate according to a new device category satisfying specified QoS (quality of service) requirements while also satisfying specified link budget requirements, and/or additional optimization requirements. The UE device may communicate with a cellular base station according to a first mode of operation associated with the new device category, and may switch to communicating with the cellular base station according to a second mode of operation associated with a second (pre-existing) device category in response to the link budget requirements exceeding a specified value and the quality of service requirements not being sensitive.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 15, 2022Publication date: July 28, 2022Inventors: Tarik Tabet, Awais M. Hussain, Lydi Smaini, Moustafa M. Elsayed, Syed Aon Mujtaba, Matthias Sauer, Ronald W. Dimpflmaier, Bernd W. Adler, Christian W. Mucke
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Patent number: 11317324Abstract: A user equipment (UE) device may communicate according to a new device category satisfying specified QoS (quality of service) requirements while also satisfying specified link budget requirements, and/or additional optimization requirements. The UE device may communicate with a cellular base station according to a first mode of operation associated with the new device category, and may switch to communicating with the cellular base station according to a second mode of operation associated with a second (pre-existing) device category in response to the link budget requirements exceeding a specified value and the quality of service requirements not being sensitive.Type: GrantFiled: October 2, 2019Date of Patent: April 26, 2022Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Tarik Tabet, Awais M. Hussain, Lydi Smaini, Moustafa M. Elsayed, Syed Aon Mujtaba, Matthias Sauer, Ronald W. Dimpflmaier, Bernd W. Adler, Christian W. Mucke
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Publication number: 20220035757Abstract: Embodiments relate to an integrated circuit of an electronic device that coordinates activities with another integrated circuit of the electronic device. The integrated circuit includes an interface circuit and a processor circuit. The interface circuit communicates over a multi-drop bus connected to multiple electronic components. The processor circuit receives an authorization request from the integrated circuit via the interface circuit and the multi-drop bus. The received authorization request relates to authorization to perform an activity on the other integrated circuit. In response to receiving the authorization request, the processor circuit determines whether the other integrated circuit is authorized to execute the activity.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 13, 2021Publication date: February 3, 2022Inventors: Helena Deirdre O'Shea, Camille Chen, Vijay Kumar Ramamurthi, Alon Paycher, Matthias Sauer, Bernd W. Adler
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Patent number: 11176069Abstract: Embodiments relate to an integrated circuit of an electronic device that coordinates activities with another integrated circuit of the electronic device. The integrated circuit includes an interface circuit and a processor circuit. The interface circuit communicates over a multi-drop bus connected to multiple electronic components. The processor circuit receives an authorization request from the integrated circuit via the interface circuit and the multi-drop bus. The received authorization request relates to authorization to perform an activity on the other integrated circuit. In response to receiving the authorization request, the processor circuit determines whether the other integrated circuit is authorized to execute the activity.Type: GrantFiled: May 28, 2020Date of Patent: November 16, 2021Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Helena Deirdre O'Shea, Camille Chen, Vijay Kumar Ramamurthi, Alon Paycher, Matthias Sauer, Bernd W. Adler
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Publication number: 20210209042Abstract: Embodiments relate to an integrated circuit of an electronic device that coordinates activities with another integrated circuit of the electronic device. The integrated circuit includes an interface circuit and a processor circuit. The interface circuit communicates over a multi-drop bus connected to multiple electronic components. The processor circuit receives an authorization request from the integrated circuit via the interface circuit and the multi-drop bus. The received authorization request relates to authorization to perform an activity on the other integrated circuit. In response to receiving the authorization request, the processor circuit determines whether the other integrated circuit is authorized to execute the activity.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 28, 2020Publication date: July 8, 2021Inventors: Helena Deirdre O'Shea, Camille Chen, Vijay Kumar Ramamurthi, Alon Paycher, Matthias Sauer, Bernd W. Adler
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Publication number: 20210092676Abstract: In some embodiments, an apparatus includes first and second signal processing circuitry configured to perform signal processing operations and second signal processing circuitry configured to perform signal processing operations, wherein the second signal processing circuitry includes a smaller amount of processing resources than the first signal processing circuitry. In some embodiments, the apparatus includes one or more storage elements configured to store context information for the second signal processing circuitry and the one or more storage elements are accessible to the first signal processing circuitry. The apparatus may be configured to select one of the first and second signal processing circuitry based on the complexity of input problems, the amount of transmission resources assigned to the apparatus, etc. In some embodiments, intermediate results of from the second signal processing circuitry are used as inputs to an operation performed by the first signal processing circuitry.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 25, 2020Publication date: March 25, 2021Inventors: Matthias Sauer, Bernd W. Adler
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Patent number: 10856220Abstract: In some embodiments, an apparatus includes first and second signal processing circuitry configured to perform signal processing operations and second signal processing circuitry configured to perform signal processing operations, wherein the second signal processing circuitry includes a smaller amount of processing resources than the first signal processing circuitry. In some embodiments, the apparatus includes one or more storage elements configured to store context information for the second signal processing circuitry and the one or more storage elements are accessible to the first signal processing circuitry. The apparatus may be configured to select one of the first and second signal processing circuitry based on the complexity of input problems, the amount of transmission resources assigned to the apparatus, etc. In some embodiments, intermediate results of from the second signal processing circuitry are used as inputs to an operation performed by the first signal processing circuitry.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 2016Date of Patent: December 1, 2020Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Matthias Sauer, Bernd W. Adler
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Publication number: 20200059941Abstract: An apparatus such as a wireless communication device (UE) may include first circuitry configured to conduct wireless communications according to a first radio access technology (RAT) in a first frequency band and in a second frequency band, where the first RAT is a cellular RAT, the first frequency band is in an unlicensed spectrum, and the second frequency band is in a licensed spectrum. The apparatus may include second circuitry configured to conduct wireless communications according to a second RAT in the first frequency band, wherein the second RAT is a wireless local area network (WLAN) RAT. The apparatus may be configured to determine to perform a scan operation in the first frequency band using the first circuitry and, based on one or more transmissions by the second circuitry using the first frequency band, adjust one or more parameters for the scan measurement by the first circuitry. The cellular communications in the first frequency band may be LAA communications, for example.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 28, 2019Publication date: February 20, 2020Inventors: Farouk Belghoul, Paul V. Flynn, Louie J. Sanguinetti, Bernd W. Adler, Christian W. Mucke, Joseph Hakim, Ronald W. Dimpflmaier, Matthias Sauer, Tushar R. Shah, Daniel R. Borges, Rafael L. Rivera-Barreto, Cesar Perez
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Publication number: 20200037206Abstract: A user equipment (UE) device may communicate according to a new device category satisfying specified QoS (quality of service) requirements while also satisfying specified link budget requirements, and/or additional optimization requirements. The UE device may communicate with a cellular base station according to a first mode of operation associated with the new device category, and may switch to communicating with the cellular base station according to a second mode of operation associated with a second (pre-existing) device category in response to the link budget requirements exceeding a specified value and the quality of service requirements not being sensitive.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 2, 2019Publication date: January 30, 2020Inventors: Tarik Tabet, Awais M. Hussain, Lydi Smaini, Moustafa M. Elsayed, Syed Aon Mujtaba, Matthias Sauer, Ronald W. Dimpflmaier, Bernd W. Adler, Christian W. Mucke
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Patent number: 10461789Abstract: A low-power scouting receiver is presented that provides an ability perform low-power scouting functions at a relatively low power. The low-power scouting functions determine context information for the receiver and enable fine-tuning of other receiver operations based on the context information. The low-power scouting functions include receiver control and switching, jammer detection, self-interference detection, or other context-dependent radio parameters.Type: GrantFiled: June 15, 2018Date of Patent: October 29, 2019Assignee: APPLE INC.Inventors: Ronald W. Dimpflmaier, Matthias Sauer, Bernd W. Adler