Apple Patent Grants

Electronic conferencing

Granted: April 29, 2025
Patent Number: 12289350
Aspects of the subject technology provide for secure, privacy-preserving access to electronic conferencing. In one or more implementations, a server may receive a request to contact an account via a service, the request including a service-specific alias for the account. The service-specific alias may be configured for contact with one or more devices associated with the account via a set of services. The server may allow or deny contact with the one or more devices associated with the…

Head mountable display

Granted: April 29, 2025
Patent Number: 12289874
An electronic assembly includes a printed circuit board (PCB), an electronic component coupled to the PCB, an electrically conductive fence coupled to the PCB and surrounding a perimeter of the electronic component, and a fan assembly. The fan assembly includes a housing coupled to the fence and disposed over the electronic component and a plurality of fan blades configured to rotate within the housing.

Dynamic profile and radio access technology selection based on application network slice requirements

Granted: April 29, 2025
Patent Number: 12289797
Embodiments described herein relate to wireless communications, including methods and apparatus for dynamically selecting subscriber identity module (SIM) profiles, electronic SIM (eSIM) profiles, multi-SIM operating modes, and/or wireless access networks for network slice based applications of wireless devices. A wireless device can include at least two SIM/eSIM profiles and switch use of SIM/eSIM profiles, change between dual SIM operating modes, and/or select a registration mode based…

Communication coordination and power saving techniques for multi-subscriber identity module devices

Granted: April 29, 2025
Patent Number: 12289782
A wireless device may connect, using a first subscriber identity module (SIM), to a first base station according to a first radio access technology (RAT) and a second base station according to a second RAT. The wireless device may also connect, using a second SIM, to a third base station according to the first RAT. The wireless device may, in response to the second SIM performing a call according to the first RAT, disable the first RAT for the first SIM and perform, using the first SIM,…

Measurement gap configuration for bandwidth part switching

Granted: April 29, 2025
Patent Number: 12289647
Some aspects of this disclosure relate to apparatuses and methods for implementing techniques for generating a report result based on a set of measurements performed at measurement gaps during a reporting period. The set of measurements are performed on a reference signal at a first bandwidth part (BWP) or a second BWP when BWP switching is performed. The first BWP has a first measurement gap configuration, the second BWP has a second measurement gap configuration. The measurement gaps…

Mutual anchoring and traffic distribution in a converged RAN integrating NR and Wi-Fi access

Granted: April 29, 2025
Patent Number: 12289639
A next generation NodeB (gNB) implements a radio access network (RAN) convergence functionality for new radio (NR) and wireless local area network (WLAN) access, the gNB further implementing a split architecture comprising a central unit (CU) and a distributed unit (DU) for each of the NR access and WLAN access. The gNB receives a data packet for transmission to a user equipment (UE) implementing the RAN convergence functionality, the data packet comprising one of a control plane (CP)…

Network signaling for radio resource management enhancement in high speed train (HST) scenarios

Granted: April 29, 2025
Patent Number: 12289610
A network may transmit either beam deployment information or beam number information to a user equipment (UE) carried on a train and configured for operation in the millimeter wave band. The deployment information may include deployment related distance parameters or azimuth angle spread parameters. The beam number information may indicate a number of network beams associated with a current cell. The UE may determine a number of UE receive beams based on deployment information or the…

Wireless device initiated channel occupancy in unlicensed spectrum

Granted: April 29, 2025
Patent Number: 12289606
This disclosure relates to techniques for a wireless device to initiate channel occupancy in unlicensed spectrum in a wireless communication system. The wireless device may establish a wireless link with a cellular base station. The wireless device may determine to perform an uplink transmission to the cellular base station on an unlicensed frequency channel. The wireless device may determine whether the cellular base station has channel occupancy of the unlicensed frequency channel. The…

Occupant-based audio control for enclosed environments

Granted: April 29, 2025
Patent Number: 12289574
Implementations of the subject technology provide occupant-based audio for enclosed environments. For example, an apparatus having an enclosure and one or more speakers may determine a location and/or an identity of an occupant within an enclosed environment defined by the enclosure, and operate the one or more speakers to provide audio output to the location of the occupant. The apparatus may also operate the one or more speakers to reduce the audio output to one or more other locations…

System and method for placeshifting media playback

Granted: April 29, 2025
Patent Number: 12289357
Systems and methods of placeshifting media playback between two or more devices are provided. For example, a method for placeshifting media may include downloading onto a first device an index of files accessed or modified on a second device via a data storage server, at least one of the files being a media file played on the second device. The first device may display a user selectable list of the files on the first device before issuing a request for the media file to the data storage…

Electronic device with graphical user interface

Granted: April 29, 2025
Patent Number: D1072847

Displays having reduced pixel density region with localized tuning

Granted: April 29, 2025
Patent Number: 12288522
An electronic device includes a display and a sensor underneath the display. The display has a full pixel density region and a reduced pixel density region. Compared to pixels in the full pixel density region, pixels in the reduced pixel density region can be controlled using overdriven power supply voltages, overdriven scan control signals, different initialization and reset voltages, and can include capacitors and transistors with different physical and electrical characteristics. Gate…

Electronic device touch detection

Granted: April 29, 2025
Patent Number: 12287936
An electronic device can include a touch sensitive display and an electrode electrically isolated from the touch sensitive display. The electrode can be configured to receive a first signal associated with performing a first function of the electronic device. In some examples, the electronic device can include a controller in electrical communication with the touch sensitive display and the electrode. The controller can be configured to perform a second function via the electrode, the…

Multi-input for rotating and translating crown modules

Granted: April 29, 2025
Patent Number: 12287927
A wearable device includes a housing and a display carried by the housing, a capacitive sensor carried by the housing and including a movable outer surface. The capacitive sensor can include a first set of conductors forming a first electrical path, a second set of conductors forming a second electrical path, and a set of non-conductive insulators isolating the first set of conductors from the second set of conductors. A processor can also be carried by the housing and can be in…

Methods for manipulating a virtual object

Granted: April 29, 2025
Patent Number: 12287921
In some embodiments, a computer system performs virtual object manipulation operations using respective portions of the user's body and/or input device(s). In some embodiments, a computer system manipulates a virtual object based on input from a hand of a user and/or a handheld device. In some embodiments, a computer system manipulates a virtual object directly or indirectly.

Devices, methods, and graphical user interfaces for controlling avatars within three-dimensional environments

Granted: April 29, 2025
Patent Number: 12287913
The present disclosure generally relates to techniques and user interfaces for controlling and displaying representations of user in environments, such as during a live communication session and/or a live collaboration session.

Systems and methods for providing trustworthiness scores

Granted: April 29, 2025
Patent Number: 12287857
Techniques are disclosed relating to computing security and privacy. In some embodiments, a computing device provides, to a service computing system, a service request that identifies an action and includes an anonymous identifier for a user of the computing device. The computing device receives, from the service computing system, a score request for a trustworthiness score indicative of the user's trustworthiness. In response to receiving the score request from the service computing…

Computing device case

Granted: April 29, 2025
Patent Number: 12287680
A case for an electronic device can include a case body including an exterior surface and an interior surface, the interior surface being positioned opposite the exterior surface. The case can additionally include a button body positioned at least partially within the case body between the exterior surface and the interior surface, the button body being movable inward and outward relative to the case body along an axis of button travel. The case can further include a biasing structure…

Optical module for head-mounted device

Granted: April 29, 2025
Patent Number: 12287485
An optical module for a head-mounted device is configured to present content to a user. The optical module includes an optical module housing assembly, a display assembly, and an eye camera. The optical module housing assembly has a first end and a second end. The lens is connected to the optical module housing assembly and positioned at the first end of the optical module housing assembly. The display assembly is connected to the optical module housing assembly and is positioned at the…

Display screen or portion thereof with graphical user interface

Granted: April 29, 2025
Patent Number: D1072854