Apple Patent Applications

ELECTRIC SHIELDING STRUCTURES

Granted: August 22, 2024
Application Number: 20240283301
Wireless power transmitting devices according to embodiments of the present technology may include a contact surface configured to support one or more wireless power receiving devices. The wireless power transmitting devices may include a plurality of coils. The wireless power transmitting devices may also include a shield positioned between the plurality of coils and the contact surface. The shield may include one or more shield members, each shield member axially aligned with a…

ENHANCEMENT IN CONFIGURED GRANT TRANSMISSION

Granted: August 22, 2024
Application Number: 20240284446
Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for enhancement in configured grant transmission. An embodiment operates by receiving a configured grant (CG) configuration message configuring a plurality of CG physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) transmission occasions (TOs) within a CG period. Next, the embodiment receives an information element indicating a time division duplexing (TDD) uplink-downlink (UL-DL) slot configuration. The embodiment then…

TECHNOLOGIES FOR ASSOCIATING TRANSMISSION CONFIGURATION INDICATOR STATES WITH UPLINK AND DOWNLINK CHANNELS

Granted: August 22, 2024
Application Number: 20240284434
The present application relates to devices and components including apparatus, systems, and methods for unified transmission configuration indicator state for multiple-transmit-receive point operation in wireless networks.

NETWORK COORDINATION FOR CROSS LINK INTERFERENCE MITIGATION

Granted: August 22, 2024
Application Number: 20240284345
Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for identifying an aggressor device or an aggressor beam of an aggressor device. The embodiments further mitigate the impact of the identified aggressor device or the identified aggressor beam of the aggressor device.

USER EQUIPMENT POLICY CONTROL WITH POLICY CONTROL FUNCTION RESELECTION

Granted: August 22, 2024
Application Number: 20240284312
The present application relates to devices and components, including apparatus, systems, and methods for providing the user equipment (UE) state indication to the policy control function (PCF).

TECHNOLOGIES FOR DYNAMIC CONTROL OF PROTOCOL DATA UNIT SET DISCARDING

Granted: August 22, 2024
Application Number: 20240284253
The present application relates to devices and components including apparatus, systems, and methods for dynamic control of protocol data unit set discarding.

RELAXATION CRITERION FOR UE POWER SAVING

Granted: August 22, 2024
Application Number: 20240284234
A method for a user equipment (UE) includes: determining that a first set of criteria is met for relaxing an evaluation; in response to the determining that the first set of criteria is met, entering a relaxation mode in which the evaluation is performed by the UE using a relaxed evaluation period, the relaxed evaluation period longer than a normal evaluation period with which the evaluation is not relaxed; determining that a second set of criteria is met for not relaxing the evaluation;…

Dynamic Types For Activity Continuation Between Electronic Devices

Granted: August 22, 2024
Application Number: 20240284154
described embodiments transfer an activity from a source electronic device to a companion electronic device. The source electronic device receives activity information describing an activity performed in a first application at the source electronic device, determines an activity identifier for the activity information, and broadcasts an activity advertisement comprising the activity identifier. Upon receiving the activity advertisement, the companion electronic device determines whether…

VOICE COIL MOTOR OPTICAL IMAGE STABILIZATION

Granted: August 22, 2024
Application Number: 20240284019
Some embodiments provide an apparatus for controlling the motion of a camera component. In some embodiments, the apparatus includes an actuator module. The actuator module includes a plurality of magnets. Each magnet of the plurality of magnets is poled with magnetic domains substantially aligned in the same direction throughout each magnet. The apparatus further includes a coil rigidly disposed around a lens. Each magnet of the plurality of magnets contributes to the forces to adjust…

TRANSMISSION CONFIGURATION INDICATOR DETERMINATION AND ACKNOWLEDGMENT

Granted: August 22, 2024
Application Number: 20240283575
The present application relates to devices and components including apparatus, systems, and methods for determining and acknowledging transmission configuration indicator states.

Respiration Detection

Granted: August 22, 2024
Application Number: 20240277260
Methods and apparatus for measuring biometric data including respiration in head-mounted devices (HMDs). Accelerometers may be integrated into a HMD and used to collect motion data from a user's face. This motion data may be processed to generate estimates of the user's respiration rate and changes to the respiration rate. Thermal sensors may also be integrated into the HMD and used to collect thermal data from the surface of the user's face (or other regions of the user's head). This…

DYNAMIC CONFIGURATION OF SPUR CANCELLATION

Granted: August 15, 2024
Application Number: 20240275369
Embodiments relate to updating spur cancellation at a victim integrated circuit (IC) in accordance with dynamic changes in the operating frequencies of an aggressor IC. The aggressor IC changes its operating frequencies at an update time that is determined in advance. The update time and the changes to the operating frequencies are shared with the victim IC. The victim IC dynamically updates the relationships between frequencies of local clock signals for the victim IC and the aggressor…

HANDLING COLLISION FOR MINI-SLOT-BASED AND SLOT-BASED TRANSMISSION

Granted: August 15, 2024
Application Number: 20240276598
Described is an apparatus of a User Equipment (UE). The apparatus may comprise a first circuitry, a second circuitry, and a third circuitry. The first circuitry may be operable to process one or more configuration transmissions from the gNB carrying a rule for Uplink (UL) collisions and process a first Downlink (DL) transmission and a second DL transmission. The second circuitry may be operable to identify a first UL transmission for the first DL transmission and a second UL transmission…

BLIND DECODING FOR MULTIPLE DOWNLINK CONTROL INFORMATION

Granted: August 15, 2024
Application Number: 20240276518
Some aspects relate to a carrier aggregation wireless system having a user equipment (UE). The UE can generate a report of a UE capability to support a first downlink control information (DCI) in a first DCI format for a cell of a plurality of cells of the wireless system and a second DCI in a second DCI format for the cell, and a report of a UE capability to support splitting a blind decoding (BD) of control channel element (CCE) (BD/CCE) budget between performing BD/CCE carrying the…

SUPPLEMENTARY UPLINK CONFIGURATION FOR MULTI-CELL SCHEDULING

Granted: August 15, 2024
Application Number: 20240276478
The present application relates to devices and components including apparatus, systems, and methods to provide supplemental uplink configuration for single downlink control information based multi-cell scheduling.

CONTINUOUS DEVICE INTERACTION DISCOVERY

Granted: August 15, 2024
Application Number: 20240276373
The techniques disclosed herein may include receiving proximity messages during a first time period via a wireless personal area network. Each proximity message may include a proximity identifier calculated using a unique identifier for a proximate electronic device. In addition, the techniques may include retrieving, from a database, a set of device identifiers corresponding to devices in the first electronic device's contact list. The techniques may include for each message:…

USER EQUIPMENT (UE) CAPABILITY REPORTING IN ASSOCIATION WITH SIMULTANEOUS UPLINK TRANSMISSIONS USING MULTIPLE ANTENNA PANELS

Granted: August 15, 2024
Application Number: 20240276353
The present application relates to devices and components including apparatus, systems, and methods that support capability index reporting associated with multi-antenna panel uplink transmissions. In an example, a base station configures a UE to perform channel state information (CSI) group-based reporting. The UE can report a set of capability indexes that correspond to an antenna panel or for a plurality of antenna panels. This report can indicate the number of sounding reference…

DYNAMIC RADIO FREQUENCY SWITCHING IN NEW RADIO FOR RADIO RESOURCE MANAGEMENT IN RADIO RESOURCE CONTROL CONNECTED STATE

Granted: August 15, 2024
Application Number: 20240276260
Embodiments of the present disclosure describe methods, apparatuses, storage media, and systems for configuring and implementing radio resource management (RRM) measurements for monitoring neighboring cells based on synchronization signal block (SSB) timing groups in an radio resource control (RRC) connected (RRC_CONNECTED) state. Various embodiments describe how to determine a set of SSB timing groups, and how to generate a receiver switching pattern based on the set of SSB timing…

MULTI-USER MULTIPLE INPUT MULTIPLE OUTPUT (MU-MIMO) RESTRICTION WITH ENHANCED DEMODULATION REFERENCE SIGNAL (DMRS) CONFIGURATION TYPES FOR PDSCH IN NEW RADIO (NR)

Granted: August 15, 2024
Application Number: 20240275640
Aspects are described for a user equipment (UE) comprising a transceiver configured to enable wireless communication with a base station, and a processor communicatively coupled to the transceiver. The processor is configured to receive a configuration message from the base station and determine a first set of antenna ports based on the configuration message. The processor is further configured to perform channel estimation on the first set of antenna port and perform or refrain from…

TECHNOLOGIES FOR STABLE HOME LOCATION

Granted: August 15, 2024
Application Number: 20240275629
The present application relates to devices and components, including apparatus, systems, and techniques updating the home location of a home automation system. The user device is associated with a home automation system that is configured at a home or office. The user device may be in a location other than the primary location associated with the home automation system. The user device may send a message to update the location of the home automation system. The transmission of the update…