Apple Inc.

Applie Inc.

Michael Jason Giles

Sriram Hariharan

Craig P Dooley

Akshay Mangalam Srivatsa

Camille Chen

Ganesha Adkasthala Ganapathi Batta

David John Shaw

Bob Bradley

Robert D Watson

Jaime Tolentino

Anjali S Sandesara

Lei Li

Sarang S Ranade

Daniel R Borges

Ariane Cotte

Brian D Pietsch

Michael A Robinson

Yilok L Wong

Matthew L Semersky

Artiom Shamis

Christopher R Whitney

Andre M Boule

Kang Sun

Huy Le

Tanya G Kancheva

Matt I Gillette

Friedrich W Drees

Chris Zimmermann

Chris Hartman

Arthur Lin

Gary S Thomason

Todd Wheeler

Christopher B Zimmermann

Duy N Phan

David A Hardell

Hsin-Yao Chen

Hyundoo Shin

Sean P Wilson

Ganesha Adkasthala Ganapathi Bata

Sujatha Viswanathan

David Chance Graham

Christiaan A Hartman

Mitchell David Adler

Yannick L Sierra

Alon Paycher

Deepak R Iyer

Peter N Heerboth

Aarti Kumar

Jason C Conn

David B Cheung

Astrid Yi

Siegfried Lehmann

Paul J Costa

David R Cox

Steven J Sfarzo

Venkatesh Rajendran

Natalia A Fornshell

Nicholas W Ruhter

Avinash Reddy Singireddy

Marco Pontil

Jacob S Weiss

Steven Ichung Kuo

Fiyinfolu O Adewale

Sergey Chemishkian

Ganesha A G Batta

Yong Liu

Taylor Gerard Carrigan

Syed Aon Mujtaba

Jianxiong Shi

Su Khiong Yong

Guoqing Li

Anthony Joseph Guetta

Lawrie Kurian

Jonathan Anderson Bennett

Baptiste Pierre Paquier

Prateek Sharma

Deepankar Bhattacharjee

Langford M Wasada

Michael A Cretella

Sanjay K Verma

Cesar De Camargo Barscevicius

Hassan Lashkari

Alexander Richter

Jack I-Chieh Fu

Alessio Centazzo

Donald Eng

Akshay Mangalam Srivastsa

John M Richey

Clifford J Hunt

Ashraya Arya

Abuzar Amini

Deepak C Iyer

Embodiments of the present disclosure provide systems, methods, and computer-readable medium for pairing two proximate devices. An advertisement message associated with an accessory device may be received by a host device (e.g., a smart phone). The advertisement message may be communicated using a Bluetooth protocol (e.g., BLE). Payload data may be extracted from the advertisement message and utilized to obtain a media asset (e.g., an image, a video, an icon, etc.) associated with the accessory device. The media asset may be presented via a user interface at the host device. Input may be received indicating a request and/or an approval to perform a pairing procedure with the accessory device. In accordance with the input, the host device may execute the pairing procedure with the accessory device.

Proximity pairing techniques for an accessory device

Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for providing a recommendation of a payment credential to be used by an electronic device in a commercial transaction based on merchant information received by the electronic device are provided. In one example embodiment, a method, at an electronic device that includes a secure element that includes at least one payment credential, includes, inter alia, accessing credential availability data indicative of the at least one payment credential, accessing merchant context data associated with a merchant subsystem, wherein the merchant context data is indicative of a preference for a first type of payment credential over a second type of payment credential, and presenting payment recommendation data based on the accessed credential availability data and the accessed merchant context data. Additional embodiments are also provided.

Recommendation of payment credential to be used based on merchant information

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 device implementing dynamic controller selection may include a processor configured to generate a connectivity graph based on a scan for accessory devices, the connectivity graph including a connectivity metric value for a discovered accessory device. The processor may be configured to broadcast the connectivity graph and receive another connectivity graph broadcasted by another electronic device that includes another connectivity metric value for the accessory device. The processor may be configured to receive a request to provide an instruction to the accessory device and determine which of the electronic devices will provide the instruction based on the connectivity metric values. The processor may be further configured to, when the electronic device is determined, provide the instruction for transmission to the accessory device, and when the other electronic device is determined, provide, for transmission to the other electronic device, the instruction to be provided to the accessory device.

Dynamic controller selection for a local area network

This document describes techniques for detecting and providing user notification of mismatched devices. A device mismatch of a pair of wireless devices may be detected. A wireless indication of the device mismatch may be provided to another wireless device. That wireless device may provide a user notification that the pair of wireless devices are mismatched.

Identification and user notification of mismatched devices

A system and method for routing communication to a common audio output device connected to each of two or more audio signal source devices. For each of the two or more audio signal source devices, a set of inputs are assessed. The set of inputs include: an operational state of the audio signal source device, an activity the audio signal source device, an audio-producing application being executed by the audio signal source device, and a degree of user activity with the audio-producing application being executed by the audio signal source. At a point in time, an audio routing score is generated for each of the two or more audio signal source devices according to a weighted calculation of the set of inputs based on the assessing. Finally, an audio signal routing decision is made, to route an audio signal from one of the two or more audio signal source devices to the audio output device, based on the audio routing score for each of the two or more audio signal source devices.

Smart routing for audio output devices

A device configured to generate audio output, receive an indication that a second device is to emit a signal, adjust the audio output from a first state to a second state based at least on the indication that the second device is to emit the signal, identify a predetermined condition and adjust the audio output from the second state to the first state based on at least the predetermined condition.

Adaptive audio output

The embodiments set forth herein disclose techniques for enabling a user device to seamlessly establish a secure, high-bandwidth wireless connection with a vehicle accessory system to enable the user device to wirelessly stream user interface (UI) information to the vehicle accessory system. To implement this technique, a lower-bandwidth wireless technology (e.g., Bluetooth) is used as an initial means for establishing a Wi-Fi pairing between the user device and the vehicle accessory system. Wi-Fi parameters associated with a Wi-Fi network provided by the vehicle accessory system can be communicated to the user device using the lower-bandwidth wireless technology. A secure Wi-Fi connection can then be established between the user device and the vehicle accessory system using the provided Wi-Fi parameters. The embodiments also disclose a technique for enabling the user device to automatically reconnect with the vehicle accessory system in a seamless manner (e.g., when returning to a vehicle).

In-vehicle wireless communication

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

A device providing concurrent audio streaming to multiple wireless audio output devices may include at least one processor configured to receive a user selection of at least two paired audio output devices. The at least one processor may be further configured to connect to each of the at least two of the paired audio output devices. The at least one processor may be further configured to synchronize at least one audio output synchronization parameter across each of the at least two of the paired audio output devices. The at least one processor may be further configured to concurrently stream a respective audio stream to each of the at least two of the paired audio output devices.

Concurrent audio streaming to multiple wireless audio output devices

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Michael Jason Giles