Apple Patent Grants

Techniques for balancing write commands on solid state storage devices (SSDs)

Granted: April 30, 2024
Patent Number: 11972143
Disclosed herein are techniques for balancing write commands directed to a non-volatile memory. According to some embodiments, a method may include caching a plurality of write commands into a write cache, and, in response to determining that an available capacity of the write cache satisfies a first threshold value: performing at least one write operation by directing data associated with the write commands in the write cache to the first partition of the non-volatile memory in response…

V2X resource map for semi-persistent scheduling with unicast/groupcast services

Granted: April 30, 2024
Patent Number: 11974362
Apparatuses, systems, and methods for a wireless device to perform methods for determining resources for scheduling side-link communications. The resources may be semi-persistent and/or dynamic resources. A user equipment device (UE) may determine a resource map for use in scheduling semi-persistent resources for side-link communications with at least one wireless node. The UE may transmit a resource map request message indicating preferred resource blocks, where each resource block may…

Radio resource control connection procedures for remote wireless devices

Granted: April 30, 2024
Patent Number: 11974347
This disclosure relates to techniques for performing radio resource control procedures for remote wireless devices in a wireless communication system. A remote wireless device may transmit a radio resource control message that includes information configured to be relayed to a cellular base station to a relay wireless device, which may relay the information to the cellular base station. The cellular base station may also transmit a radio resource control message that includes information…

Route adaptation in multi-hop relay networks

Granted: April 30, 2024
Patent Number: 11974345
Systems, method, and devices provide for recovery from backhaul failures for Integrated Access and Backhaul (IAB) communication systems with multi-hop routing.

Enhanced hybrid automatic retransmission request (HARQ) for semi-persistent scheduled (SPS) data transmission

Granted: April 30, 2024
Patent Number: 11974275
A device of a New Radio (NR) User Equipment (UE), a method and a machine readable medium to implement the method. The device includes a Radio Frequency (RF) interface, and processing circuitry coupled to the RF interface, the processing circuitry to: decode a downlink (DL) communication from a NR evolved NodeB (gNodeB), the DL communication including DL Semi-Persistent Scheduling (SPS) assignments for respective DL SPS transmissions from the gNodeB, the DL communication further including…

Methods of type 1 UL gap activation and deactivation in FR2

Granted: April 30, 2024
Patent Number: 11974235
Activating an uplink (UL) gap at a base station may include decoding a user equipment (UE) UL gap capability report received from a UE. A radio resource control (RRC) UL gap configuration may be encoded for transmission to the UE. A power headroom report (PHR) medium access control (MAC) control element (CE) received from the UE may be decoded. The PHR MAC CE may include at least one of a P value or a power management maximum power reduction (P-MPR) value. Decoding the measurement…

Light source module with integrated ambient light sensing capability

Granted: April 30, 2024
Patent Number: 11974047
Various embodiments include a light source module with one or more light emitters and one or more light sensors that share an aperture via which light passes. One of the light sensors may measure illuminance received through the aperture (not illuminance from the light emitters) and send a signal indicating a measurement of the illuminance. The light source module may be integrated into a portable computing device having a controller. The controller may include logic to perform one or…

Systems and methods for previewing newly captured image content and reviewing previously stored image content

Granted: April 30, 2024
Patent Number: 11974037
Systems and methods for previewing newly captured image content and reviewing previously stored image content using an electronic device are provided. The previously stored image content may include an individual distinct image or at least two consecutive video frame images.

Hybrid sensor shift platform with multi-core substrate for camera

Granted: April 30, 2024
Patent Number: 11974031
Various embodiments include a hybrid sensor shift platform comprising a multi-core substrate for a camera. The hybrid sensor shift platform may be coupled with an image sensor. The camera may include one or more actuators configured to move the hybrid sensor shift platform together with the image sensor. The multi-core substrate may be coupled with one or more other substrates to form the hybrid sensor shift platform. For example, the hybrid sensor shift platform may include a multi-core…

System and method for fast single-DCI and multi-DCI mode switching

Granted: April 30, 2024
Patent Number: 11973591
Embodiments are presented herein of apparatuses, systems, and methods for a user equipment device (UE) and/or cellular network to perform downlink control information (DCI) mode signaling and control resource set (CORESET) selection. A DCI mode may be signaled based on a predefined rule, media access control (MAC) control element (CE), and/or group based beam reporting. One or more CORESETs may be selected based on configuration of an active bandwidth part (BWP), CORESET identifier,…

Electronic device with flexible display structures

Granted: April 30, 2024
Patent Number: 11971753
An electronic device may have a flexible display. The electronic device may have housing portions that are rotatably coupled to each other so that the flexible display may fold along one or more bend axes. A device may have rollers that store a flexible display and that help deploy the display from within a housing when additional display area is desired. A touch screen in a housing may be overlapped by a flexible display that has been scrolled outwardly from the housing. Wireless…

Hashing with soft memory folding

Granted: April 30, 2024
Patent Number: 11972140
In an embodiment, a system may support programmable hashing of address bits at a plurality of levels of granularity to map memory addresses to memory controllers and ultimately at least to memory devices. The hashing may be programmed to distribute pages of memory across the memory controllers, and consecutive blocks of the page may be mapped to physically distant memory controllers. In an embodiment, address bits may be dropped from each level of granularity, forming a compacted pipe…

Device, method, and graphical user interface for manipulating user interface objects

Granted: April 30, 2024
Patent Number: 11972104
A computing device with a touch screen display simultaneously displays on the touch screen display a plurality of user interface objects and at least one destination object. The computing device detects a first input by a user on a destination object displayed on the touch screen display. While continuing to detect the first input by the user on the destination object, the computing device detects a second input by the user on a first user interface object displayed on the touch screen…

Portable electronic device, method, and graphical user interface for displaying electronic documents and lists

Granted: April 30, 2024
Patent Number: 11972103
In a computer-implemented method, a portion of an electronic document is displayed on a touch screen display of a portable multifunction device. The displayed portion has a vertical position and a horizontal position in the electronic document. An object is detected on or near the displayed portion of the electronic document. In response to detecting the object, a vertical bar and a horizontal bar are displayed on top of the displayed portion. The vertical bar has a vertical position on…

Scene information access for electronic device applications

Granted: April 30, 2024
Patent Number: 11972088
Aspects of the subject technology provide for constrained access to scene information by applications running on an electronic device. A system process of an electronic device may assign a region of a physical environment to an application. A user interface of the application may be displayed in the assigned region. The system process may provide scene information and/or user information to the application only when the scene information and/or user information occurs and/or originates…

Continuous touch input over multiple independent surfaces

Granted: April 30, 2024
Patent Number: 11972083
Touch input devices are provided with the capability of sensing a capacitive load in a two-dimensional array while also being able to sense deflection or movement of the input device in multiple different locations under an input pad. A touch input device can beneficially be used in a remote control device and can be used with multiple input buttons or platforms overlaying multiple capacitive touch input regions on a capacitive touch sensor substrate. Movement and position of a…

Noise mitigation techniques for touch screen in proximity to wireless communication circuitry

Granted: April 30, 2024
Patent Number: 11972070
Mitigation techniques can be used to reduce noise generated by wireless communication circuitry (e.g., near-field communication circuitry) in an electronic device including a display, touch, and wireless communication circuitry. In some examples, a touch screen can have a backplane including a mesh of routing traces connected to an array of chiplets. In some examples, the chiplets can repeat signals to prevent the accumulation of noise induced by an NFC coil. In some examples, the ratio…

Keyboard with touch sensor and illumination

Granted: April 30, 2024
Patent Number: 11972062
A keyboard may be provided that has keys overlapped by a touch sensor. The keyboard may have key sensor circuitry for monitoring switching in the keys for key press input. The keyboard may also have touch sensor circuitry such as capacitive touch sensor circuitry that monitors capacitive electrodes in the touch sensor for touch sensor input such as multitouch gesture input. The keyboard may include an outer layer of fabric that overlaps the keys. The fabric may have openings that are…

Systems and methods for cloud-based content management and distribution

Granted: April 30, 2024
Patent Number: 11971931
The present disclosure relates to cloud-based techniques that may be used to manage how digital content is arranged and distributed. For example, a non-transitory, computer-readable medium may include instructions that, when executed, are configured to cause processing circuitry to provide a cloud-based application that maintains an editable draft issue comprising a plurality of draft articles, generate a published issue that has a plurality of published articles corresponding to the…

Computer tower architecture thermal management

Granted: April 30, 2024
Patent Number: 11971759
An electronic device can include a housing that defines an internal volume. The electronic device can also include a component within the internal volume that divides the internal volume into a first volume and a second volume. The first volume and second volume can be fluidically isolated except at an aperture defined by the component. An air-moving system can produce a positive air pressure in the first volume and a negative air pressure in the second volume.