Patents by Inventor Franco Travostino

Franco Travostino 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).

  • Publication number: 20240306176
    Abstract: Embodiments described herein relate to managing access to 5G cellular baseband resources for 5G-capable wireless devices. A wireless device can monitor application workloads by analyzing communication network performance requirements for a given application in-use or launching for future use along with system-level indications of overall device usage, battery level, and mobility status to determine whether access to 5G cellular baseband resources is recommended for an application. A 5G cellular baseband resource recommendation is provided for an application indicating a level of bandwidth in current use or expected for future use as well as a confidence metric in the bandwidth level indication. The 5G cellular baseband resource recommendation is used with additional device criteria to determine whether access to one or more 5G radio frequency bands is allowed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2024
    Publication date: September 12, 2024
    Inventors: Madhusudan CHAUDHARY, Arun G. MATHIAS, Rajesh AMBATI, Ajay SINGH, Franco TRAVOSTINO, Muthukumaran DHANAPAL, Lakshmi N. KAVURI, Ajoy K. SINGH, Thanigaivelu ELANGOVAN, Ioannis PEFKIANAKIS, Raghuveer MALLIKARJUNAN, Faraz FAHEEM, Geoffrey R. HALL, Harshit CHUTTANI, Rohan C. MALTHANKAR, Prashant H. VASHI, Hisham A. MAHMOUD, Henri S. BERGER, Divyaprakash P. BHOJKUMAR
  • Patent number: 12022493
    Abstract: Embodiments described herein relate to managing access to 5G cellular baseband resources for 5G-capable wireless devices. A wireless device can monitor application workloads by analyzing communication network performance requirements for a given application in-use or launching for future use along with system-level indications of overall device usage, battery level, and mobility status to determine whether access to 5G cellular baseband resources is recommended for an application. A 5G cellular baseband resource recommendation is provided for an application indicating a level of bandwidth in current use or expected for future use as well as a confidence metric in the bandwidth level indication. The 5G cellular baseband resource recommendation is used with additional device criteria to determine whether access to one or more 5G radio frequency bands is allowed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Madhusudan Chaudhary, Arun G. Mathias, Rajesh Ambati, Ajay Singh, Franco Travostino, Muthukumaran Dhanapal, Lakshmi N. Kavuri, Ajoy K. Singh, Thanigaivelu Elangovan, Ioannis Pefkianakis, Raghuveer Mallikarjunan, Faraz Faheem, Geoffrey R. Hall, Harshit Chuttani, Rohan C. Malthankar, Prashant H. Vashi, Hisham A. Mahmoud, Henri S. Berger, Divyaprakash P. Bhojkumar
  • Patent number: 11895082
    Abstract: A device implementing the subject system may include at least one processor configured to receive, by a first system process, a first network address that corresponds to a domain name that was resolved by a second system process, the resolving having been responsive to a resolution request therefor by an application process. The at least one processor may be further configured to receive, by the first system process, a second network address for which a network connection was opened by the application process. The at least one processor may be further configured to, responsive to determining that the application process opened a network connection for a network address for which the application process did not provide, to the second system process, a resolution request for the corresponding domain name, provide, by the first system process, an indication of the network address in conjunction with an indication of the application process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Amitabha Ghosh, Franco Travostino, Henri S. Berger, Philip W. Flack, Timothy A. McCoy, Maciej Stachowiak, Beth M. Dakin
  • Patent number: 11895532
    Abstract: A user equipment (UE) passively determines the presence of a cellular network bottleneck in a downlink channel and may take appropriate actions to mitigate the bottleneck. The UE may analyze the transport block size (TBS) of slots of received downlink traffic and assign states the to various slots based on this analysis. Based on these assigned states, the UE may identify a burst of network traffic from network traffic received from the cellular network, and the UE may also determine the burst duration as well as a busy estimation. The UE may determine that the cellular network is experiencing a bottleneck based at least in part on the burst duration and the busy estimation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Ioannis Pefkianakis, Madhusudan Chaudhary, Muthukumaran Dhanapal, Lakshmi N. Kavuri, Thanigaivelu Elangovan, Ajay Singh, Deepankar Bhattacharjee, Gaurav Pathak, Carola Faronius, Franco Travostino, Raghuveer Mallikarjunan, Harshit Chuttani, Sreevalsan Vallath, Rajesh Ambati, Jia Tang, Ishwinder Singh
  • Publication number: 20240031223
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure are directed towards techniques for adjusting a network connection of an accessory. In some examples, the computing device can determine that the accessory is not connected to a network (e.g., the same network to which the computing device is connected). The network may utilize a first connection type. Using a second type of connection, the computing device may determine an appropriate network for connection with the accessory. The computing device may then transmit instructions to the accessory, using the second type of connection, to adjust its network connection to be connected to the determined network. The determined network may use the first connection type.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2023
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Franco Travostino, Keith W. Rauenbuehler, Marc J. Krochmal, Nicholas M. Fraioli, Anush G. Nadathur
  • Publication number: 20240022926
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to methods and devices for mitigating overheating in a user equipment device (UE). The UE is configured to communicate over each of LTE and 5G NR and may be configured to communicate through 5G NR over each of a Sub-6 GHz and a millimeter Wave (mmW) frequency band. The UE is configured to establish an ENDC connection with an enB and one or more gNBs. The UE implements intelligent transmission modification and cell measurement adjustments to mitigate overheating and reduce battery drain.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2023
    Publication date: January 18, 2024
    Inventors: Alosious Pradeep Prabhakar, Wen Zhao, Lakshmi N. Kavuri, Li Su, Sagar B. Shah, Sriram Subramanian, Vijay Venkataraman, Vishwanth Kamala Govindaraju, Shiva Krishna Nana, Sanjeevi Balasubramanian, Wei Zhang, Madhukar D. Shanbhag, Sandeep K. Sunkesala, Srinivasan Nimmala, Muthukumaran Dhanapal, Tarakkumar G. Dhanani, Sree Ram Kodali, Ioannis Pefkianakis, Dhruv Khati, Franco Travostino, Thanigaivelu Elangovan, Madhusudan Chaudhary, Geoffrey R. Hall
  • Patent number: 11805009
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure are directed towards techniques for adjusting a network connection of an accessory. In some examples, the computing device can determine that the accessory is not connected to a network (e.g., the same network to which the computing device is connected). The network may utilize a first connection type. Using a second type of connection, the computing device may determine an appropriate network for connection with the accessory. The computing device may then transmit instructions to the accessory, using the second type of connection, to adjust its network connection to be connected to the determined network. The determined network may use the first connection type.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Franco Travostino, Keith W. Rauenbuehler, Marc J. Krochmal, Nicholas M. Fraioli, Anush G. Nadathur
  • Patent number: 11758420
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to methods and devices for mitigating overheating in a user equipment device (UE). The UE is configured to communicate over each of LTE and 5G NR and may be configured to communicate through 5G NR over each of a Sub-6GHz and a millimeter Wave (mmW) frequency band. The UE is configured to establish an ENDC connection with an enB and one or more gNBs. The UE implements intelligent transmission modification and cell measurement adjustments to mitigate overheating and reduce battery drain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Alosious Pradeep Prabhakar, Wen Zhao, Lakshmi N. Kavuri, Li Su, Sagar B. Shah, Sriram Subramanian, Vijay Venkataraman, Vishwanth Kamala Govindaraju, Shiva Krishna Narra, Sanjeevi Balasubramanian, Wei Zhang, Madhukar K. Shanbhag, Sandeep K. Sunkesala, Srinivasan Nimmala, Muthukumaran Dhanapal, Tarakkumar G. Dhanani, Sree Ram Kodali, Ioannis Pefkianakis, Dhruv Khati, Franco Travostino, Thanigaivelu Elangovan, Madhusudan Chaudhary, Geoffrey R. Hall
  • Publication number: 20230217279
    Abstract: A system and method for selecting a network interface for a communication device having at least two radio physical interface, to improve communications by the communication device. A configuration of the communication device is determined, where a first radio physical interface is designated as a primary interface and active, and a second radio physical interface as idle. A networking subsystem of the operating system executes a state machine configured to monitor network conditions and associated performance parameters of the at least two radio physical interfaces, to automatically outrank the second radio physical interface over the first radio physical interface as the primary interface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2022
    Publication date: July 6, 2023
    Applicant: APPLE INC.
    Inventors: Henri S. Berger, Gencer Cili, Geoffrey R. Hall, Franco Travostino, Muthukumaran Dhanapal, Sunny R. Dubey, Pradeep S. Sharma, Raghuveer Mallikarjunan, Ajay Singh, Ozgur Ekici, Rajesh Ambati, Arun G. Mathias, Ajoy K. Singh, Thomas F. Pauly
  • Publication number: 20230134995
    Abstract: A device implementing the subject system may include at least one processor configured to receive, by a first system process, a first network address that corresponds to a domain name that was resolved by a second system process, the resolving having been responsive to a resolution request therefor by an application process. The at least one processor may be further configured to receive, by the first system process, a second network address for which a network connection was opened by the application process. The at least one processor may be further configured to, responsive to determining that the application process opened a network connection for a network address for which the application process did not provide, to the second system process, a resolution request for the corresponding domain name, provide, by the first system process, an indication of the network address in conjunction with an indication of the application process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2022
    Publication date: May 4, 2023
    Inventors: Amitabha GHOSH, Franco TRAVOSTINO, Henri S. BERGER, Philip W. FLACK, Timothy A. MCCOY, Maciej STACHOWIAK, Beth M. DAKIN
  • Patent number: 11570143
    Abstract: A device implementing the subject system may include at least one processor configured to receive, by a first system process, a first network address that corresponds to a domain name that was resolved by a second system process, the resolving having been responsive to a resolution request therefor by an application process. The at least one processor may be further configured to receive, by the first system process, a second network address for which a network connection was opened by the application process. The at least one processor may be further configured to, responsive to determining that the application process opened a network connection for a network address for which the application process did not provide, to the second system process, a resolution request for the corresponding domain name, provide, by the first system process, an indication of the network address in conjunction with an indication of the application process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Amitabha Ghosh, Franco Travostino, Henri S. Berger, Philip W. Flack, Timothy A. Mccoy, Maciej Stachowiak, Beth M. Dakin
  • Patent number: 11558758
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to methods and devices for mitigating overheating in a user equipment device (UE). The UE is configured to communicate over each of LTE and 5G NR and may be configured to communicate through 5G NR over each of a Sub-6 GHz and a millimeter Wave (mmW) frequency band. The UE is configured to establish an ENDC connection with an enB and one or more gNBs. The UE implements intelligent transmission modification and cell measurement adjustments to mitigate overheating and reduce battery drain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Alosious Pradeep Prabhakar, Wen Zhao, Lakshmi N. Kavuri, Li Su, Sagar B. Shah, Sriram Subramanian, Vijay Venkataraman, Vishwanth Kamala Govindaraju, Shiva Krishna Narra, Sanjeevi Balasubramanian, Wei Zhang, Madhukar K. Shanbhag, Sandeep K. Sunkesala, Srinivasan Nimmala, Muthukumaran Dhanapal, Tarakkumar G. Dhanani, Sree Ram Kodali, Ioannis Pefkianakis, Dhruv Khati, Franco Travostino, Thanigaivelu Elangovan, Madhusudan Chaudhary, Geoffrey R. Hall
  • Patent number: 11540195
    Abstract: Apparatuses, systems, and methods for a wireless device to perform detection and mitigation of data stalls. The mitigation may occur during and/or at initiation of a data connection. The wireless device may establish a data connection(s) with a network over a Wi-Fi or cellular interface and monitor the data connection(s) for a data stall condition(s)/hint(s). The wireless device may perform a remedial action(s) responsive to detection of a data stall condition(s)/hint(s), including initiating a service recovery of the cellular interface, initiating a radio access technology (RAT) upgrade procedure, and/or initiating a handover procedure to a neighbor cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Vijay Venkataraman, Amitabha Ghosh, Eyad Al-Shemali, Franco Travostino, Jinghua Ling, Lakshmi N. Kavuri, Muhammad R. Dar, Murtaza A. Shikari, Muthukumaran Dhanapal, Pankaj Subhash Vasandani, Ravish Samuel, Samuel J. Miller, Shivani Suresh Babu, Sree Ram Kodali, Srinivasan Nimmala, Srirang A. Lovlekar, Yifan Zhu, Irfan Khasim Mohammed, Sofheem Mohammed, Raghuram Mungara, Vijay Gadde, Sharad Garg
  • Publication number: 20220394513
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to methods and devices for mitigating overheating in a user equipment device (UE). The UE is configured to communicate over each of LTE and 5G NR and may be configured to communicate through 5G NR over each of a Sub-6GHz and a millimeter Wave (mmW) frequency band. The UE is configured to establish an ENDC connection with an enB and one or more gNBs. The UE implements intelligent transmission modification and cell measurement adjustments to mitigate overheating and reduce battery drain.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2022
    Publication date: December 8, 2022
    Inventors: Alosious Pradeep Prabhakar, Wen Zhao, Lakshmi N. Kavuri, Li Su, Sagar B. Shah, Sriram Subramanian, Vijay Venkataraman, Vishwanth Kamala Govindaraju, Shiva Krishna Narra, Sanjeevi Balasubramanian, Wei Zhang, Madhukar K. Shanbhag, Sandeep K. Sunkesala, Srinivasan Nimmala, Muthukumaran Dhanapal, Tarakkumar G. Dhanani, Sree Ram Kodali, Ioannis Pefkianakis, Dhruv Khati, Franco Travostino, Thanigaivelu Elangovan, Madhusudan Chaudhary, Geoffrey R. Hall
  • Publication number: 20220385622
    Abstract: A device implementing the subject system may include at least one processor configured to receive, by a first system process, a first network address that corresponds to a domain name that was resolved by a second system process, the resolving having been responsive to a resolution request therefor by an application process. The at least one processor may be further configured to receive, by the first system process, a second network address for which a network connection was opened by the application process. The at least one processor may be further configured to, responsive to determining that the application process opened a network connection for a network address for which the application process did not provide, to the second system process, a resolution request for the corresponding domain name, provide, by the first system process, an indication of the network address in conjunction with an indication of the application process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2022
    Publication date: December 1, 2022
    Inventors: Amitabha Ghosh, Franco Travostino, Henri S. Berger, Philip W. Flack, Timothy A. McCoy, Maciej Stachowiak, Beth M. Dakin
  • Publication number: 20220385737
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides systems and methods for monitoring tracker activity for applications on an electronic device. A monitoring process running on an electronic device is configured to monitor network connections of at least a first application running on the electronic device to identify network connections that connect to a network endpoint associated with an activity tracker. Based on the monitoring, tracker monitoring information is generated for at least the first application. The tracker monitoring information identifies activity tracking initiated by the first application. Based on the tracker monitoring information, the monitoring process performs an action.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2022
    Publication date: December 1, 2022
    Inventors: Marion Patricia DALY, Lucas J. RUSSE, Franco TRAVOSTINO, Joshua V. GRAESSLEY, Brent A. FULGHAM, Jeffrey C. TWU, Maciej STACHOWIAK, James P. WOOD
  • Patent number: 11503665
    Abstract: An electronic device connects to another electronic device using a communication link, such as a Wi-Fi link as provided by a Wi-Fi access point. The electronic device includes a transport monitoring module that monitors outgoing communications (e.g., Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) packets) from the electronic device. When the other electronic device disconnects from the Wi-Fi access point, the transport monitoring module determines that a transport anomaly has occurred. In response to determining that the transport anomaly has occurred, a probe module of the electronic device sends a probe (e.g., an Internet Protocol Security (IPSec) dead peer detection probe) to determine whether the other electronic device is reachable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Sushant U. Chavan, Franco Travostino, Daniel Lertpratchya
  • Patent number: 11432313
    Abstract: A system and method for operation of a user equipment (UE) to determine a cellular network bottleneck in a downlink channel, and an apparatus for use in a UE for determining the same. A UE may determine a burst of network traffic from network traffic received from the cellular network during a series of transmission time intervals. The UE may analyze resource allocations to the UE during the burst to determine an extent to which the cellular network is busy. The UE may determine that the cellular network is experiencing a bottleneck based at least in part on the analysis of the resource allocations to the UE in the burst.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Ioannis Pefkianakis, Madhusudan Chaudhary, Swaminathan Balakrishnan, Muthukumaran Dhanapal, Lakshmi Kavuri, Thanigaivelu Elangovan, Ajoy K. Singh, Deepankar Bhattacharjee, Gaurav Pathak, Carola Faronius, Franco Travostino, Raghuveer Mallikarjun, Harshit Chuttani, Sreevalsan Vallath, Rajesh Ambati
  • Publication number: 20220217577
    Abstract: A user equipment (UE) passively determines the presence of a cellular network bottleneck in a downlink channel and may take appropriate actions to mitigate the bottleneck. The UE may analyze the transport block size (TBS) of slots of received downlink traffic and assign states the to various slots based on this analysis. Based on these assigned states, the UE may identify a burst of network traffic from network traffic received from the cellular network, and the UE may also determine the burst duration as well as a busy estimation. The UE may determine that the cellular network is experiencing a bottleneck based at least in part on the burst duration and the busy estimation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 3, 2022
    Publication date: July 7, 2022
    Inventors: Ioannis Pefkianakis, Madhusudan Chaudhary, Muthukumaran Dhanapal, Lakshmi N. Kavuri, Thanigaivelu Elangovan, Ajay Singh, Deepankar Bhattacharjee, Gaurav Pathak, Carola Faronius, Franco Travostino, Raghuveer Mallikarjunan, Harshit Chuttani, Sreevalsan Vallath, Rajesh Ambati, Jia Tang, Ishwinder Singh
  • Patent number: 11277463
    Abstract: Apparatuses, systems, and methods for a wireless device to perform data stall mitigation. The wireless device may establish, at an HTTP layer of the wireless device, a data connection over a first network interface of the wireless device. The wireless device may compare an available duration of data in a data buffer associated with the data connection to a first threshold and notify, in response to the available duration approaching the first threshold, at least one lower layer of the wireless device of an emergency deadline. At least one lower layer may perform one or more remedial actions to avoid and/or mitigate a data stall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Alan Tseng, Franco Travostino, Christoph Paasch, Vijay Venkataraman, Scott M. Marshall, Thomas F. Pauly, Darren S. Litzinger