Apple Inc.

David John Shaw

Robert D Watson

Ganesha Adkasthala Ganapathi Batta

Sriram Hariharan

Craig P Dooley

Jahan C Minoo

Michael Jason Giles

Arun Dhyaneshwar Chawan

Augustin Prats

Akshay Mangalam Srivatsa

Gregory Robert Burns

Chandrahas Aralaguppe Chandramohan

Patrick L Coffman

Anthony Joseph Guetta

Jonathan Anderson Bennett

Jeffrey Chandler Moore

Ariane Cotte

Duy N Phan

Patrick Ian Bernhard

Kurt R Stiehl

Jonathan Sarjeant Aase

Jerzy S Guterman

Esge Brandt Andersen

Yacine Azmi

Michael B Howes

Baptiste Pierre Paquier

Zachary C Rich

Axel Dominique Berny

Benjamin W Cook

Aarti Kumar

Benjamin Huth Byer

Ashley N Saulsbury

Alon Paycher

Keith Walter Rauenbuehler

Tad J Dreier

Baek San Chang

Jonathan Shavit

Christopher S Wiebe

Matthew Gillette

Adir Eini

Gregory B Novick

Nathan De Vries

Deepak R Iyer

Albert Riley Howard

Jason C Conn

Todd Wheeler

Sarang S Ranade

Benjamin Adair Cousins

Kang Sun

Hyundoo Shin

Yilok L Wong

Matt I Gillette

Ganesh Adkasthala Ganapathi Batta

Chris Saari

Dana McLaughlin

Sean P Wilson

Sujatha Viswanathan

Benjamin A Cousins

Jahan Christian Minoo

Patrick Lee Coffman

Chadrahas Aralaguppe Chandramohan

Robert Doran Watson

Jonathan A Bennet

Dana Mclaughlin

Riley Howard

A first device is configured to establish a connection over a short-range communication link with a second device. The first device may transition to a sleep state, terminate (i) a paging operation and a page scanning operation associated with a paging protocol and (ii) an advertisement scanning operation associated with an advertisement protocol and perform an advertisement broadcast operation associated with the advertisement protocol, the advertisement broadcast operation generating an advertisement to be broadcast at a first interval, wherein the first interval is greater than a second interval for performing advertisement broadcast operations in an active state.

Low-power activation of accessory in sleep state

A first wireless communication device (UE device) associated with a certain user (or included in a specified set/group of UE devices) may establish a first communication link with an accessory device according to a short-range radio access technology, and transmit link (pairing) information associated with the first communication link to a server, such as a cloud-based server. The server may share this (first) link information with other UE devices associated with the same user (or belonging to the same specified group of UE devices as the first UE device). Link information associated with the other UE devices (i.e. second link information) may equally be shared with the accessory device, and the other UE devices and accessory device may use the first link information and second link information in establishing respective communication links between any of the other UE devices and the accessory device without having to undergo a pairing procedure.

Cloud-based proximity pairing and switching for peer-to-peer devices

A housing has a bud portion abutting an elongated stem portion. The bud portion is to fit within an ear. The bud portion has a primary sound outlet at its far end that is to be inserted into an outer ear canal, and abuts the stem portion at its near end. A speaker driver is inside the bud portion. Electronic circuitry inside the housing includes a wireless communications interface to receive audio content over-the-air and in response provides an audio signal to the speaker driver. A rechargeable battery as a power source for the electronic circuitry is located inside a cavity of the stem portion. Other embodiments are also described and claimed.

Wireless earphone

Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media for detecting a wearing status of a wearable device, the wearing status indicating whether a user is wearing the wearable device and sending wearing status data to a companion communication device to control a behavior of the companion communication device.

Changing companion communication device behavior based on status of wearable device

Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media for performing a role swapping operation between a pair of non-tethered wireless ear buds after detecting a triggering event. Further, state information can be coordinated between devices, including in connection with performing a role swap between buds in a pair of wireless, untethered ear buds, where one wireless ear bud is in a primary role and is responsible for a connection with a companion device, and another wireless ear bud in the pair is in a secondary role.

Swapping roles between untethered wirelessly connected devices

Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media for determining when to wirelessly communicatively couple together a pair of untethered wireless audio output devices and for determining when to erase a connection history stored on one or both of the wireless audio output devices.

Wireless audio output devices

Apparatus and methods to communicate audio data from either an active wireless device or a requesting wireless device to one or more audio reproduction devices that are simultaneously communicatively coupled to both the active wireless device and to the requesting wireless device are disclosed. Responsive to a request from the requesting wireless device to transmit audio data to the one or more audio reproduction devices, the active wireless device determines whether to transmit audio data from the requesting wireless device based at least in part on an audio status of the active wireless device and a set of predetermined arbitration criteria that prioritizes among applications and operating system processes that generate the audio data.

Audio data routing between multiple wirelessly connected devices

Methods for aggregating Bluetooth profiles for faster connection and configuration are disclosed, including transmitting, subsequent to establishing a connection, a request message to a peer device that indicates support of a fast connection protocol for Bluetooth profiles configuration and receiving a response message from the peer device that indicates the peer device supports the fast connection protocol. After pairing with the peer device, a first list of profile descriptors for a plurality of Bluetooth profiles supported by the device may be transmitted to the peer device and a second list of profile descriptors for a plurality of Bluetooth profiles supported by the peer device may be received. A configuration of a plurality of Bluetooth profiles base, at least in part, on a comparison of the first list of profile descriptors to the second list of profile descriptors may be determined and transmitted to the peer device.

Bluetooth profile fast connect

Cloud based proximity pairing and switching for peer-to-peer devices

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David John Shaw