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Sriram Hariharan

Michael Jason Giles

Robert D Watson

David John Shaw

Ganesha Adkasthala Ganapathi Batta

Craig P Dooley

Alon Paycher

Brent Michael Ledvina

Matthew L Semersky

Daniel R Borges

Robert W Brumley

Syed Aon Mujtaba

Marc Jason Krochmal

Anthony Joseph Guetta

Ashley N Saulsbury

Augustin Prats

Jonathan Anderson Bennett

Deepak R Iyer

Patrick L Coffman

Yong Liu

Wen Zhao

Robert William Mayor

Gregory B Novick

Nathan De Vries

Bob Bradley

Yannick L Sierra

Paul V Flynn

David Chance Graham

Christiaan A Hartman

Mitchell David Adler

Ajoy K Singh

Taylor Gerard Carrigan

Naftali Sommer

Jianxiong Shi

Su Khiong Yong

Arian Behzadi

Shahrooz Shahparnia

Joakim Linde

Christopher John Sanders

Xiaowen Wang

Gregory R Chapman

Sean Anthony Ramprashad

Oren Shani

Camille Chen

Johannes P Schmidt

Joseph Hakim

Baptiste Pierre Paquier

Chiu Ngok E Wong

Julien F Freudiger

Yoel Boger

Raghunandan K Pai

Akshay Mangalam Srivatsa

Ariane Cotte

Duy N Phan

Todd Wheeler

Sarang S Ranade

Langford M Wasada

Kang Sun

Artiom Shamis

Gregory Robert Burns

Chandrahas Aralaguppe Chandramohan

Christopher R Whitney

Andre M Boule

Brian D Pietsch

Albert Riley Howard

Sreeraman Anantharaman

Jason C Conn

Aarti Kumar

Dennis Mathews

Benjamin A Detwiler

Robert Denton Silfvast

Axel Dominique Berny

Vijay Sundaram

Scott Lopatin

Kyle C Brogle

Jeffrey Chandler Moore

William M Bumgarner

Eric A Allamanche

Tommy Rochette

Helena Deirdre O'Shea

Siva Ganesh Movva

Tad J Dreier

Patrick Ian Bernhard

Natalia A Fornshell

Venkatesh Rajendran

David P Saracino

Astrid Yi

Siegfried Lehmann

Li-Quan Tan

Frederic Jacobs

Samuel B Schaevitz

Raman S Thiara

Arun Unkn

Anjali S Sandesara

Tal Inbar

Jay N Bruins

Ahmad Rahmati

Adam Geboff

Emmanuel Lalande

Adam M Driscoll

Embodiments described herein provide for a non-transitory machine-readable medium storing instructions to cause one or more processor to perform operations comprising establishing a wireless connection with a beacon peripheral, monitoring a connection state of the wireless connection, in response to detecting a loss of connection with the beacon peripheral, posting a separation notification for the beacon peripheral to a notification framework of the electronic device, deferring display of the notification during a reconnect interval, attempting to reconnect with the beacon peripheral during the reconnect interval, and displaying the separation notification via a user interface in response to a failure to reconnect with the beacon peripheral.

Separation notifications for wireless accessories

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

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 mobile device can include ranging circuitry to determine distance to another mobile device. A first wireless protocol can establish an initial communication session to perform authentication and/or exchange ranging settings. A second protocol can perform ranging, and other wireless protocols can transmit content. In one example, the distance information can be used to display a relative position of another device on a user interface of a sending device. The user interface can allow a user to quickly and accurately select the recipient device for sending the data item. As another example, the distance information obtained from ranging can be used to trigger a notification (e.g., a reminder) to be output from a first mobile device or used to display a visual indicator on a receiving device. Proximity of a device (e.g., as determined by a distance) can be used to suggest recipient for a new communication.

Ranging between mobile devices

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

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

An audio output device may join an existing session between a source device and another audio output device. The source device may transmit audio data associated with an audio session, using a first frequency band, to a first wireless audio output device and transmit connection information associated with the audio session to a second wireless audio output device over a second frequency band. The second frequency band differs from the first frequency band and the connection information allows the second wireless audio output device to join the audio session. After transmitting the connection information, the source device may transmit subsequent audio data associated with the audio session to the first wireless audio output device and the second wireless audio output device.

Joining an existing audio session

In some embodiments, an electronic device presents user interfaces for defining identifiers for remote locator objects. In some embodiments, an electronic device locates a remote locator object. In some embodiments, an electronic device provides information associated with a remote locator object. In some embodiments, an electronic device displays notifications associated with a trackable device. In some embodiments, a first device generates alerts.

User interfaces for tracking and finding items

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

Embodiments of the current disclosure facilitate the creation of a wireless connection between a host device and an accessory device over a wireless medium. For instance, according to some embodiments, a method of connecting an accessory device to a host device includes transmitting a plurality of advertising beacons over a wireless medium. Each wireless beacon can contain information identifying a predetermined time when the accessory device will begin a page scan. The accessory device can begin the page scan at the predetermined time and can receive pages from a host device during a page scan window of the page scan over the wireless medium. The received pages can then be subsequently used to establish an ad hoc network connection between the accessory device and the host device.

Bluetooth connection establishment

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

Maintenance of wireless devices

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Sriram Hariharan