Apple Inc.

Kenneth U Victa

Brent Michael Ledvina

Robert William Mayor

Sriram Hariharan

Todd Wheeler

Benjamin A Detwiler

E Thomas Erdmann, Iv

Nikhil Nilakantan

Camille Chen

Yang Yu

Siva Ganesh Movva

Sanjay Mani

Ariane Cotte

Steven Douglas Laver

Tunc Ertan

Nohee Ko

Ping-Ko Chiu

Balaji Ravindran

Anita Desai

Kerry Nguyen

Michał Adam Kałużny

The presence of a wireless device and/or accessory that cannot maintain an independent network connection can be detected by network connected wireless devices and the location of the detected device and/or accessory can be reported to a device location service. As the wireless devices and/or accessories do not have independent network connections, periodic maintenance is performed on those devices by nearby owner devices to which the wireless devices and/or accessories are paired or associated. Described herein are systems, methods, and associated devices to maintain a locatable wireless device by a set of multiple owner devices for that wireless device.

Maintenance of wireless devices by electronic devices

Embodiments that relate to pairing and finding a group of accessory devices are described. In an embodiment, a pairing status is received from a first accessory device, a request is sent to the first accessory device for information on a number of accessory devices in a device group and a number of accessory devices that are proximate to the first accessory device in the device group, information on a second accessory device in the device group is received, a continue pairing message is sent to the second accessory device if the second accessory device is proximate, and a device group profile is created with information on the number of parts and received information on the second accessory device.

Pairing groups of accessories

Maintenance of wireless devices

Methods and apparatuses are presented to facilitate coexistence between multiple wireless communication protocols implemented by a wireless communication device, by dynamically adjusting priority between the two protocols. The wireless communication device may typically favor a first protocol (e.g. Bluetooth/BTLE), prioritizing resource requests by the first protocol. In certain use cases, the first protocol may demand high resource usage for an extended time, particularly for newer tracking and wearable devices, such as location tags, watches, headsets, etc. Such applications can disrupt existing use cases for a second protocol (e.g., Wi-Fi). Therefore, the wireless communication device may dynamically determine whether the second protocol is performing critical operations, such as latency-sensitive applications or high-performance operations. If so, the wireless communication device may allocate resources accordingly in real time, e.g., by reducing or limiting the resources assigned to the first protocol, to allow increased resources for the second protocol.

Wi-fi traffic aware system with wireless accessories

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San Jose, CA, United States of America

Kenneth U Victa