公开(公告)号：US20240202787A1

公开(公告)日：2024-06-20

申请号：US18589144

申请日：2024-02-27

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Tom Bert Etienne Hauspy ,  Biljana Badic ,  Christian Drewes ,  Christian W. Mucke

IPC: G06Q30/0601 ,  G06N20/00 ,  G06Q20/32

CPC classification number: G06Q30/0601 ,  G06N20/00 ,  G06Q20/321

Abstract: Smart gesturing may facilitate smart shopping and other contactless experiences by enabling a user to perform a natural gesture toward one or more desired items with or while wearing a wearable or non-wearable electronic device. The electronic device may identify the smart gesture, and determine the one or more desired items are indicated by the smart gesture. The electronic device may identify the desired items by receiving location data of multiple items, determining a vector based on a first position a second position of the smart gesture, extending the vector to a location, and using the location data to determine which item or items correspond to the location. If more than one item is indicated by the smart gesture, the electronic device may enable selection of the items and, if at least one item is selected, provide information on the selected items or enable additional interaction with the selected items.

公开(公告)号：US11991260B2

公开(公告)日：2024-05-21

申请号：US17439481

申请日：2020-12-17

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Biljana Badic ,  Christian Drewes ,  Ralph Hasholzner ,  Krisztian Kiss ,  Teck Yang Lee ,  Matthias Sauer ,  Mikhail Vilgelm ,  Babar Qaisrani ,  Vijay Venkataraman ,  Robert Zaus

IPC: H04L67/59 ,  H04L67/51 ,  H04W4/50

CPC classification number: H04L67/59 ,  H04L67/51 ,  H04W4/50

Abstract: A user equipment (UE) or other device performs service discovery of edge computing resources in a cellular network system and dynamic offloading of UE application tasks to discovered edge computing resources. As part of the discovery process, the device (e.g., the UE) may request edge server site capability information. When performing dynamic offloading, the UE may obtain (collect and/or receive) information regarding channel conditions, cellular network parameters or application requirements and dynamically determine whether a task of the application executing on the UE should be offloaded to an edge server or executed locally on the UE. In making decisions between offloaded or local execution, the UE may use a utility function that takes into account factors such as relative differences in application latency, energy consumption and offloading cost.

公开(公告)号：US20230262576A1

公开(公告)日：2023-08-17

申请号：US18078899

申请日：2022-12-09

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Sudeep Manithara Vamanan ,  Babar Qaisrani ,  Biljana Badic ,  Haijing Hu ,  Krisztian Kiss ,  Vivek G. Gupta ,  Zhibin Wu

IPC: H04W40/22 ,  H04M3/51 ,  H04W4/90 ,  H04W40/24

CPC classification number: H04W40/22 ,  H04M3/5116 ,  H04W4/90 ,  H04W40/246 ,  H04W88/04

Abstract: The present application relates to improving coverage and reliability of cellular emergency service. In an example, a relay UE is authorized by a core network to provide a U2N relay for emergency services, where this authorization is based on UE capability information sent to the core network indicating the support of U2N relay emergency functionalities. During a U2N relay discovery, the relay UE indicates, to a remote UE, that this capability can be provided. Accordingly, the remote UE selects the relay UE from a candidate set of relay UEs and a relay communication is established.

公开(公告)号：US20220110187A1

公开(公告)日：2022-04-07

申请号：US17484024

申请日：2021-09-24

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Babar Qaisrani ,  Biljana Badic ,  Gaurav Lamba ,  Krisztian Kiss ,  Mona Agnel ,  Rafael L. Rivera-Barreto ,  Rohan C. Malthankar ,  Sudeep Manithara Vamanan ,  Vijay Venkataraman

IPC: H04W76/50 ,  H04W4/90 ,  H04W40/22 ,  H04W4/029 ,  H04W48/14 ,  H04W40/28 ,  H04W76/14

Abstract: Apparatuses, systems, and methods for emergency communications (e.g., voice calls and/or SMS messages) for UE's without cellular coverage (e.g., in non-cellular coverage). A function of a core network may receive, from a relay UE, a request to establish an SOS APN for a host UE, where the request may include at least an approximate location of the host UE, and where the host UE may be out of range of cellular service. The function of the core network may route, based, at least in part, on the approximate location of the host UE, traffic to a PSAP with a coverage area that includes the approximate location of the host UE using the established SOS APN. The approximate location of the host UE may be based, at least in part, on a location of the relay UE.

公开(公告)号：US11076424B2

公开(公告)日：2021-07-27

申请号：US16489722

申请日：2017-09-12

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Markus Dominik Mueck ,  Biljana Badic ,  Zhibin Yu

IPC: H04W74/08 ,  H04L27/26 ,  H04M7/00 ,  H04W16/14

Abstract: Devices and methods of transmit opportunity (TXOP) with continued listen-before-talk (LBT) are generally described. A user equipment (UE) can be configured to perform a single LBT during an LBT scanning instance, to detect availability of an unlicensed wireless channel. Upon detecting availability of the channel, data is encoded for transmission during a TXOP with a TXOP duration. A pause in the transmission of the data is initiated upon expiration of a first time interval of the TXOP. A continuous LBT procedure is performed upon expiration of the pause, to determine a plurality of sensing metrics indicating occupancy of the unlicensed wireless channel. The transmission of the data is resumed during the TXOP for a second time interval, when at least one sensing metric of the plurality of sensing metrics is below a threshold.

公开(公告)号：US20240105043A1

公开(公告)日：2024-03-28

申请号：US18371327

申请日：2023-09-21

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Biljana Badic

IPC: G08B21/08 ,  G08B31/00

CPC classification number: G08B21/088 ,  G08B31/00

Abstract: Embodiments are disclosed for a wearable device used as a digital pool attendant. In some embodiments, a method comprises: determining, with at least one processor of a wearable device, whether a user is swimming or not swimming based on sensor data; in accordance with the user not swimming, determining with the at least one processor and based on the sensor data, whether the user is showing regular or irregular behavior while swimming; and in accordance with the user showing irregular behavior, sending an alert message from the water over air to one or more other devices.

公开(公告)号：US11924732B2

公开(公告)日：2024-03-05

申请号：US17483936

申请日：2021-09-24

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Babar Qaisrani ,  Biljana Badic ,  Gaurav Lamba ,  Krisztian Kiss ,  Mona Agnel ,  Rafael L Rivera-Barreto ,  Rohan C Malthankar ,  Sudeep Manithara Vamanan ,  Vijay Venkataraman

IPC: H04W4/90 ,  H04W4/029 ,  H04W4/80 ,  H04W76/14 ,  H04W76/50 ,  H04W92/18

CPC classification number: H04W4/90 ,  H04W4/029 ,  H04W4/80 ,  H04W76/14 ,  H04W76/50 ,  H04W92/18

Abstract: Apparatuses, systems, and methods for emergency communications (e.g., voice calls and/or SMS messages) for UE's without cellular coverage (e.g., in non-cellular coverage). A UE may establish, while out of range of cellular service, a peer-to-peer communication session with a relay UE using a channel in an unlicensed frequency band. The UE may transmit, using the peer-to-peer communication session, an emergency notification to the relay UE. The emergency notification may include an approximate location of the UE. Further the UE may communicate with a Public Safety Answering Point (PSAP), where the communications may be relayed between the UE and the PSAP by the relay UE. The approximate location of the UE may be based, at least in part, on a location of the relay UE and determining the approximate location of the UE may include performing a ranging procedure with the relay UE.

公开(公告)号：US20230328823A1

公开(公告)日：2023-10-12

申请号：US18328621

申请日：2023-06-02

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Jan K. Ellenbeck ,  Biljana Badic ,  Christian Drewes

IPC: H04W36/22 ,  H04W76/15 ,  H04W4/70 ,  H04W28/02

CPC classification number: H04W76/15 ,  H04W4/70 ,  H04W28/0263 ,  H04W36/22

Abstract: A communications network may include a relay device that receives device-to-device (D2D) signals. In an ad hoc mode, the relay may consume relatively little power while receiving relatively few messages from relatively few transmitting devices in the D2D signals. In an organized mode, the device may consume relatively high power while receiving many messages from many transmitting devices in the D2D signals. A receiver on the device may transition from the ad hoc mode to the organized mode in response to a first criterion and may transition from the organized mode to the ad hoc mode in response to a second switching criterion. This may allow the device to balance communications load and power consumption while relaying messages such as emergency messages received over D2D signals given that the signals may arrive rarely or in clusters due to an unforeseen event.

公开(公告)号：US20230013335A1

公开(公告)日：2023-01-19

申请号：US17379458

申请日：2021-07-19

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Jan Ellenbeck ,  Biljana Badic ,  Christian Drewes

IPC: H04W4/90 ,  H04B1/00 ,  H04W76/14 ,  H04W76/28 ,  H04W40/22

Abstract: A communications network may include user equipment (UE) devices. When a first UE device becomes off-grid and has an emergency message, the first UE device may transmit device-to-device signals for receipt by a second UE device. The signals may include one or more preambles that precede the emergency message and that are used by the second UE device to perform synchronization with the first UE device. The second UE device may periodically activate a receiver during a series of windows to listen for the signals, may receive a preamble sequence during one of the windows, and may synchronize its timing to the first UE device for receipt of the emergency message based on the preamble sequence. This may allow the UE devices to be synchronized for transfer of the emergency message over long distances while consuming a minimal amount of power on the second UE device.

公开(公告)号：US20220391955A1

公开(公告)日：2022-12-08

申请号：US17337783

申请日：2021-06-03

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Tom Bert Etienne Hauspy ,  Biljana Badic ,  Christian Drewes ,  Christian W. Mucke

IPC: G06Q30/06 ,  G06Q20/32 ,  G06N20/00

Abstract: Smart gesturing may facilitate smart shopping and other contactless experiences by enabling a user to perform a natural gesture toward one or more desired items with or while wearing a wearable or non-wearable electronic device. The electronic device may identify the smart gesture, and determine the one or more desired items are indicated by the smart gesture. The electronic device may identify the desired items by receiving location data of multiple items, determining a vector based on a first position a second position of the smart gesture, extending the vector to a location, and using the location data to determine which item or items correspond to the location. If more than one item is indicated by the smart gesture, the electronic device may enable selection of the items and, if at least one item is selected, provide information on the selected items or enable additional interaction with the selected items.