公开(公告)号：US20220201429A1

公开(公告)日：2022-06-23

申请号：US17603892

申请日：2020-04-15

申请人： Apple Inc.

发明人： Jonathan R. Schoenberg ,  Adam M. Driscoll ,  E. Thomas Erdmann, IV ,  Emmanuel Lalande ,  Michael C. Laster ,  Scott Lopatin ,  Robert W. Mayor ,  Siva Ganesh Movva ,  Munish K. Poonia ,  Tommy Rochette ,  Christina Selle ,  Langford M. Wasada ,  Swadesh Bhattacharya ,  Raghunandan K. Pai ,  Brent M. Ledvina

IPC分类号： H04W4/02 ,  H04W4/029 ,  H04W4/20 ,  H04W52/02

摘要： Embodiments described herein provide for an electronic device comprising a wireless processor coupled with a wireless radio, memory to store instructions, and one or more processors to execute the instructions. The one or more processors, based on the instructions, are to scan for a beacon advertisement using the wireless processor, store the beacon and a timestamp in a beacon advertisement buffer in response to detection of the beacon via the wireless processor, correlate a beacon advertisement with stored location data to determine a location estimate for a device associated with the beacon advertisement, encrypt the location estimate for the beacon advertisement using a beacon identifier broadcast with the beacon identifier, and transmit a hash of the beacon identifier and an encrypted location estimate for the beacon advertisement to a device locator server. Embodiments also provide techniques to enable known device matching and horizontal accuracy adjustment during location data harvesting for wireless accessory devices.

公开(公告)号：US11606669B2

公开(公告)日：2023-03-14

申请号：US17813897

申请日：2022-07-20

申请人： Apple Inc.

发明人： Scott Lopatin ,  Emmanuel Lalande ,  Lawrence T. Lu ,  Robert W. Mayor ,  Siva Ganesh Movva ,  Raghunandan K. Pai ,  Munish K. Poonia ,  Tommy Rochette ,  Sam Schaevitz ,  Yannick L. Sierra ,  Navin Bindiganavile Suparna ,  Langford Wasada

IPC分类号： H04W4/00 ,  H04W4/029 ,  H04W4/80 ,  H04W12/50 ,  H04W12/126 ,  H04W12/63

摘要： Embodiments described herein provide for system and methods to crowdsource the location of wireless devices and accessories that lack a connection to a wide area network. One embodiment provides for a data processing system configured to perform operations comprising loading a user interface on an electronic device, the user interface to enable the determination of a location of a wireless accessory that is associated with the electronic device, generating a set of public keys included within a signal broadcast by the wireless accessory, the signal broadcast during a first period, sending the set of public keys to a server with a request to return data that corresponds with a public key in the set of public keys, decrypting the location data using a private key associated with the public key, and processing the location data to determine a probable location for the wireless accessory.

公开(公告)号：US12075313B2

公开(公告)日：2024-08-27

申请号：US17818859

申请日：2022-08-10

申请人： Apple Inc.

发明人： Scott Lopatin ,  Emmanuel Lalande ,  Lawrence T. Lu ,  Robert W. Mayor ,  Siva Ganesh Movva ,  Raghunandan K. Pai ,  Munish K. Poonia ,  Tommy Rochette ,  Sam Schaevitz ,  Yannick L. Sierra ,  Navin Bindiganavile Suparna ,  Langford Wasada

IPC分类号： H04W4/20 ,  H04W4/029 ,  H04W4/80 ,  H04W12/126 ,  H04W12/50 ,  H04W12/63

CPC分类号： H04W4/029 ,  H04W4/80 ,  H04W12/126 ,  H04W12/50 ,  H04W12/63

摘要： Embodiments described herein provide for system and methods to crowdsource the location of wireless devices and accessories that lack a connection to a wide area network. One embodiment provides for a data processing system configured to perform operations comprising loading a user interface on an electronic device, the user interface to enable the determination of a location of a wireless accessory that is associated with the electronic device, generating a set of public keys included within a signal broadcast by the wireless accessory, the signal broadcast during a first period, sending the set of public keys to a server with a request to return data that corresponds with a public key in the set of public keys, decrypting the location data using a private key associated with the public key, and processing the location data to determine a probable location for the wireless accessory.

公开(公告)号：US20220200789A1

公开(公告)日：2022-06-23

申请号：US17603562

申请日：2020-04-15

申请人： Apple Inc.

发明人： Emmanuel Lalande ,  Michael C. Laster ,  Scott Lopatin ,  Munish K. Poonia ,  Tommy Rochette ,  Yannick L. Sierra

IPC分类号： H04L9/08 ,  H04W4/029 ,  H04W12/0431

摘要： Embodiments described herein provide for a non-transitory machine-readable medium storing instructions to cause one or more processor to perform operations to share a set of keys used to communicate with a wireless accessory device. By sharing the set of keys, functionality of the wireless accessory device can be delegated by an owner to other individuals.

公开(公告)号：US20170359681A1

公开(公告)日：2017-12-14

申请号：US15273550

申请日：2016-09-22

申请人： Apple Inc.

发明人： Scott Lopatin ,  Emmanuel Lalande ,  Navin Bindiganavile Suparna ,  Raghunandan K. Pai ,  Sarish Jain ,  Siva Ganesh Movva ,  Tommy Rochette

IPC分类号： H04W4/02 ,  H04W4/20

CPC分类号： H04W4/02 ,  H04W4/20 ,  H04W4/21 ,  H04W4/80

摘要： Systems, methods, devices and computer-readable storage mediums are disclosed for managing location sharing requests. In various implementations, a requesting device or a server computer in communication with the requesting device, receives a location sharing request associated with a user and, in response, sends a notification to a companion device associated with the user. A location of the companion device is received from the companion device together with a list of one or more devices associated with the user that are paired with the companion device and a connection status for at least one of the one or more paired devices. The connection status indicates if there is a direct communication link established between the paired device and the companion device. A notification is sent to each disconnected paired device based on the connection status. Each disconnected device that is worn or carried by the user responds with their location.

公开(公告)号：US11051105B2

公开(公告)日：2021-06-29

申请号：US17010473

申请日：2020-09-02

申请人： Apple Inc.

发明人： Sorin V. Dusan ,  Raghunandan K. Pai ,  Scott Lopatin ,  Tommy Rochette ,  Navin Bindiganavile Suparna ,  Emmanuel Lalande ,  Siva Ganesh Movva ,  Robert Watson ,  Scott Grinker

IPC分类号： H04R3/00 ,  H04R5/033 ,  G08B3/10 ,  H04W64/00 ,  G08B1/08 ,  H04W4/02 ,  H04R1/10 ,  G08B25/10 ,  H04M1/60 ,  G08B25/08

摘要： Systems, methods, devices and non-transitory, computer-readable storage mediums are disclosed for location-tracking wireless devices. In an embodiment, a method performed by an electronic device comprises: playing, or initiating the playing of, a sound through a loudspeaker of an accessory device via a communication link. The sound is played at a specified frequency that utilizes a frequency response of the loudspeaker (or loudspeaker plus speaker enclosure). The sound is received through two or more microphones of the electronic device and filtered by one or more filters. The one or more filters are configured to pass the sound at or around the specified frequency and to reduce masking of the sound by ambient noise. The filtered sound is associated with direction data generated from sensor data provided by one or more inertial sensors of the electronic device. In another embodiment, the specified frequency is higher than the maximum human hearing range.

公开(公告)号：US10771898B2

公开(公告)日：2020-09-08

申请号：US15721666

申请日：2017-09-29

申请人： Apple Inc.

发明人： Sorin V. Dusan ,  Raghunandan K. Pai ,  Scott Lopatin ,  Tommy Rochette ,  Navin Bindiganavile Suparna ,  Emmanuel Lalande ,  Siva Ganesh Movva ,  Robert Watson ,  Scott Grinker

IPC分类号： H04R5/033 ,  H04M1/60 ,  G08B3/10 ,  H04W64/00 ,  G08B1/08 ,  H04W4/02 ,  H04R1/10 ,  G08B25/10 ,  G08B25/08 ,  H04R3/00

摘要： Systems, methods, devices and non-transitory, computer-readable storage mediums are disclosed for location-tracking wireless devices. In an embodiment, a method performed by an electronic device comprises: playing, or initiating the playing of, a sound through a loudspeaker of an accessory device via a communication link. The sound is played at a specified frequency that utilizes a frequency response of the loudspeaker (or loudspeaker plus speaker enclosure). The sound is received through two or more microphones of the electronic device and filtered by one or more filters. The one or more filters are configured to pass the sound at or around the specified frequency and to reduce masking of the sound by ambient noise. The filtered sound is associated with direction data generated from sensor data provided by one or more inertial sensors of the electronic device. In another embodiment, the specified frequency is higher than the maximum human hearing range.

公开(公告)号：US20180199138A1

公开(公告)日：2018-07-12

申请号：US15721666

申请日：2017-09-29

申请人： Apple Inc.

发明人： Sorin V. Dusan ,  Raghunandan K. Pai ,  Scott Lopatin ,  Tommy Rochette ,  Navin Bindiganavile Suparna ,  Emmanuel Lalande ,  Siva Ganesh Movva ,  Robert Watson ,  Scott Grinker

IPC分类号： H04R5/033 ,  G08B3/10 ,  H04W4/02 ,  G08B1/08 ,  H04W64/00

CPC分类号： H04R5/0335 ,  G08B1/08 ,  G08B3/1016 ,  G08B25/08 ,  G08B25/10 ,  H04M1/6008 ,  H04R1/1091 ,  H04R3/005 ,  H04R2499/11 ,  H04W4/02 ,  H04W64/006

摘要： Systems, methods, devices and non-transitory, computer-readable storage mediums are disclosed for location-tracking wireless devices. In an embodiment, a method performed by an electronic device comprises: playing, or initiating the playing of, a sound through a loudspeaker of an accessory device via a communication link. The sound is played at a specified frequency that utilizes a frequency response of the loudspeaker (or loudspeaker plus speaker enclosure). The sound is received through two or more microphones of the electronic device and filtered by one or more filters. The one or more filters are configured to pass the sound at or around the specified frequency and to reduce masking of the sound by ambient noise. The filtered sound is associated with direction data generated from sensor data provided by one or more inertial sensors of the electronic device. In another embodiment, the specified frequency is higher than the maximum human hearing range.

公开(公告)号：US09936344B2

公开(公告)日：2018-04-03

申请号：US15273550

申请日：2016-09-22

申请人： Apple Inc.

发明人： Scott Lopatin ,  Emmanuel Lalande ,  Navin Bindiganavile Suparna ,  Raghunandan K. Pai ,  Sarish Jain ,  Siva Ganesh Movva ,  Tommy Rochette

IPC分类号： H04W4/02 ,  H04W4/20

CPC分类号： H04W4/02 ,  H04W4/20 ,  H04W4/21 ,  H04W4/80

摘要： Systems, methods, devices and computer-readable storage mediums are disclosed for managing location sharing requests. In various implementations, a requesting device or a server computer in communication with the requesting device, receives a location sharing request associated with a user and, in response, sends a notification to a companion device associated with the user. A location of the companion device is received from the companion device together with a list of one or more devices associated with the user that are paired with the companion device and a connection status for at least one of the one or more paired devices. The connection status indicates if there is a direct communication link established between the paired device and the companion device. A notification is sent to each disconnected paired device based on the connection status. Each disconnected device that is worn or carried by the user responds with their location.

公开(公告)号：US20240349042A1

公开(公告)日：2024-10-17

申请号：US18637105

申请日：2024-04-16

申请人： Apple Inc.

发明人： Benjamin A. Detwiler ,  Brent M. Ledvina ,  Chen Ganir ,  Emmanuel Lalande ,  Michael C. Laster ,  Siva Ganesh Movva ,  Ernst T. Erdmann ,  Yannick L. Sierra

IPC分类号： H04W12/04 ,  H04W12/121

CPC分类号： H04W12/04 ,  H04W12/121

摘要： Portable electronic devices can be used to perform tracking functionality through the exchange of proximity messages. Based on the payload in these messages, a mobile device can detect whether a portable electronic device is likely performing unwanted tracking. The mobile device user may wish to identify an account that is associated with the portable device. In response to a request from the mobile device, the portable electronic device can provide a partial identifier that can be used to determine an associated account. The portable electronic device can also provide information that the mobile device can use to locate disablement instructions that can show how to stop the portable device from performing tracking functionality.