Apple Inc.

Gurtej Singh Chandok

Christopher M Garrido

Ming Jin

Ajoy K Singh

David L Biderman

Najeeb M Abdulrahiman

Keith Walter Rauenbuehler

Srinivasan Vasudevan

Luciano Miguel Verger

Eric A Allamanche

Patrick Miauton

Nicholas M Fraioli

Thomas Christopher Jansen

Anil G Naik

Deepak Chitlur Lakshman

Jason Adam Bernardo

Hsi-Jung Wu

Xiaosong Zhou

Beibei Wang

Dazhong Zhang

Karthick Santhanam

Hang Yuan

Eric L Chien

Xiaohua Yang

Peikang Song

Albert E Keinath

Vikrant Kasarabada

David R Conrad

Davide Concion

Bess C Chan

Giribalan Gopalan

Jason A Bernardo

Thomas Jansen

Techniques are disclosed for coding video data in which frames from a video source are partitioned into a plurality of tiles of common size, and the tiles are coded as a virtual video sequence according to motion-compensated prediction, each tile treated as having respective temporal location of the virtual video sequence. The coding scheme permits relative allocation of coding resources to tiles that are likely to have greater significance in a video coding session, which may lead to certain tiles that have low complexity or low motion content to be skipped during coding of the tiles for select source frames. Moreover, coding of the tiles may be ordered to achieve low coding latencies during a coding session.

Efficient coding of source video sequences partitioned into tiles

A client device may be used to initiate or answer calls using a host device connected to a network. For example, when a phone operating as a host device receives an incoming call from a network, the phone may communicate the presence of the incoming call to one or more client devices such as laptop, desktop, tablet, or wearable devices that are associated with the host device. When an answer call selection is made at a client, a call answered communication may be sent from the client device to the host device. The host device may then communicate with the network to connect the call to the host, and when the call is connected, the host may hand-off the call to the client that sent the call answered communication.

Answering a call with client through a host

Methods and apparatus to manage communication sessions to handover between a direct connection at a secondary wireless device and a relayed connection to the secondary wireless device via a primary wireless device. A connection manager of a secondary wireless device can trigger transfer of a communication session based on measurements of performance metrics for the communication session. Upon detection of performance degradation in a local connection or a backhaul connection or both, the connection manager of the secondary wireless device can determine proximity of and/or capabilities for connections of the primary wireless device and instigate transfer of the communication session between different connection types, such as between a direct connection and a relayed connection. The transfer of the communication session can occur without user intervention or in response to input from the user without interrupting or reestablishing the communication session.

Active communication session handover between direct and relayed connections

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Gurtej Singh Chandok