Patents by Inventor Rachid Kachemir
Rachid Kachemir 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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Patent number: 12041478Abstract: In some implementations, a computing system can perform crowd sourced access point mapping using privacy preserving techniques. For example, a server device can receive access point data reports from multiple user devices that includes various attributes and/or measurements with respect to access points with which the user devices have established connections. The access point data reports can be delivered without identifying the user devices, or users thereof, and their exact locations. Based on the access point data reports, the server device can map locations of access points and relationships between access points to generate network topologies, network locations, network quality scores, and various other characteristics of networks and/or access points. The generated access point data can be served to user devices so that the user devices can improve the efficiency of the interactions between user devices and the detected access points and/or networks.Type: GrantFiled: March 21, 2023Date of Patent: July 16, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Rachid Kachemir, Krishna M. Behara, Ashok Kumar Harikumar, Christopher R. Purcell, Welly Kasten
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Publication number: 20240089840Abstract: Embodiments herein provide apparatuses and techniques for providing a notification indicating guidance to reaching cellular connectivity in the event of a loss of cellular connectivity and for guiding a user of a user equipment to a location with cellular connectivity. The notification may be generated based on expiration of a timer, a screen unlock operation, or an application connection failure. The notification may indicate how long ago the cellular connectivity loss occurred and how far away a nearest location is with a cellular connectivity was. The user equipment may display a map interface based on user input selecting the notification. The map interface may show a map of the current location of the user equipment, a nearest location with cellular connectivity to the user equipment, and a path, which includes a tracked path of user equipment and a proposed path to the nearest location with cellular connectivity.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 14, 2022Publication date: March 14, 2024Inventors: Ozgur Ekici, Sachin J. Sane, Thanigaivelu Elangovan, Rajesh Ambati, Richard B. Warren, Rachid Kachemir, Ampy B. Fejes
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Publication number: 20240089841Abstract: Embodiments herein provide apparatuses and techniques for providing a notification indicating guidance to reaching cellular connectivity in the event of a loss of cellular connectivity and for guiding a user of a user equipment to a location with cellular connectivity. The notification may be generated based on expiration of a timer, a screen unlock operation, or an application connection failure. The notification may indicate how long ago the cellular connectivity loss occurred and how far away a nearest location is with a cellular connectivity was. The user equipment may display a map interface based on user input selecting the notification. The map interface may show a map of the current location of the user equipment, a nearest location with cellular connectivity to the user equipment, and a path, which includes a tracked path of user equipment and a proposed path to the nearest location with cellular connectivity.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 14, 2022Publication date: March 14, 2024Inventors: Ozgur Ekici, Sachin J Sane, Thanigaivelu Elangovan, Rajesh Ambati, Richard B Warren, Rachid Kachemir, Ampy B Fejes
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Publication number: 20230308921Abstract: In some implementations, a computing system can perform crowd sourced access point mapping using privacy preserving techniques. For example, a server device can receive access point data reports from multiple user devices that includes various attributes and/or measurements with respect to access points with which the user devices have established connections. The access point data reports can be delivered without identifying the user devices, or users thereof, and their exact locations. Based on the access point data reports, the server device can map locations of access points and relationships between access points to generate network topologies, network locations, network quality scores, and various other characteristics of networks and/or access points. The generated access point data can be served to user devices so that the user devices can improve the efficiency of the interactions between user devices and the detected access points and/or networks.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 21, 2023Publication date: September 28, 2023Applicant: Apple Inc.Inventors: Rachid Kachemir, Krishna M. Behara, Ashok Kumar Harikumar, Christopher R. Purcell, Welly Kasten
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Patent number: 11641596Abstract: In some implementations, a computing system can perform crowd sourced access point mapping using privacy preserving techniques. For example, a server device can receive access point data reports from multiple user devices that includes various attributes and/or measurements with respect to access points with which the user devices have established connections. The access point data reports can be delivered without identifying the user devices, or users thereof, and their exact locations. Based on the access point data reports, the server device can map locations of access points and relationships between access points to generate network topologies, network locations, network quality scores, and various other characteristics of networks and/or access points. The generated access point data can be served to user devices so that the user devices can improve the efficiency of the interactions between user devices and the detected access points and/or networks.Type: GrantFiled: July 22, 2021Date of Patent: May 2, 2023Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Rachid Kachemir, Krishna M. Behara, Ashok Kumar Harikumar, Christopher R. Purcell, Welly Kasten
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Patent number: 11210279Abstract: A distributed offline indexing system uses a set of data processing systems in a distributed computing environment to create an index database that can store, for example, data about geographical or geospatial areas. The index database can be distributed across a plurality of database shards such that each shard includes an index file and a DB file. The index files include keys that refer to values in their corresponding DB files. The keys are used to look-up their corresponding values at search time. At indexing time, the keys are hashed, with an entropy creating hash, to distribute the keys across the shards.Type: GrantFiled: April 13, 2017Date of Patent: December 28, 2021Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Rachid Kachemir, Krishna M. Behara, Bradley C. Kellett
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Publication number: 20210352512Abstract: In some implementations, a computing system can perform crowd sourced access point mapping using privacy preserving techniques. For example, a server device can receive access point data reports from multiple user devices that includes various attributes and/or measurements with respect to access points with which the user devices have established connections. The access point data reports can be delivered without identifying the user devices, or users thereof, and their exact locations. Based on the access point data reports, the server device can map locations of access points and relationships between access points to generate network topologies, network locations, network quality scores, and various other characteristics of networks and/or access points. The generated access point data can be served to user devices so that the user devices can improve the efficiency of the interactions between user devices and the detected access points and/or networks.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 22, 2021Publication date: November 11, 2021Applicant: Apple Inc.Inventors: Rachid Kachemir, Krishna M. Behara, Ashok Kumar Harikumar, Christopher R. Purcell, Welly Kasten
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Patent number: 11109258Abstract: In some implementations, a computing system can perform crowd sourced access point mapping using privacy preserving techniques. For example, a server device can receive access point data reports from multiple user devices that includes various attributes and/or measurements with respect to access points with which the user devices have established connections. The access point data reports can be delivered without identifying the user devices, or users thereof, and their exact locations. Based on the access point data reports, the server device can map locations of access points and relationships between access points to generate network topologies, network locations, network quality scores, and various other characteristics of networks and/or access points. The generated access point data can be served to user devices so that the user devices can improve the efficiency of the interactions between user devices and the detected access points and/or networks.Type: GrantFiled: May 28, 2020Date of Patent: August 31, 2021Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Rachid Kachemir, Krishna M. Behara, Ashok Kumar Harikumar, Christopher R. Purcell, Welly Kasten
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Publication number: 20200382981Abstract: In some implementations, a computing system can perform crowd sourced access point mapping using privacy preserving techniques. For example, a server device can receive access point data reports from multiple user devices that includes various attributes and/or measurements with respect to access points with which the user devices have established connections. The access point data reports can be delivered without identifying the user devices, or users thereof, and their exact locations. Based on the access point data reports, the server device can map locations of access points and relationships between access points to generate network topologies, network locations, network quality scores, and various other characteristics of networks and/or access points. The generated access point data can be served to user devices so that the user devices can improve the efficiency of the interactions between user devices and the detected access points and/or networks.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 28, 2020Publication date: December 3, 2020Applicant: Apple Inc.Inventors: Rachid Kachemir, Krishna M. Behara, Ashok Kumar Harikumar, Christopher R. Purcell, Welly Kasten
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Publication number: 20170300490Abstract: A distributed offline indexing system uses a set of data processing systems in a distributed computing environment to create an index database that can store, for example, data about geographical or geospatial areas. The index database can be distributed across a plurality of database shards such that each shard includes an index file and a DB file. The index files include keys that refer to values in their corresponding DB files. The keys are used to look-up their corresponding values at search time. At indexing time, the keys are hashed, with an entropy creating hash, to distribute the keys across the shards.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 13, 2017Publication date: October 19, 2017Inventors: Rachid Kachemir, Krishna M. Behara, Bradley C. Kellett