Qualcomm Incorporated

Surendra Kompala

Naga Chandan Babu Gudivada

Anand Krishna Puranik

Vishnu Vardhan Kasilya Sudarsan

Mihir Vijay Laghate

Raghavendra Shyam Ananda

Prakash Tiwari

Tushar Gupta

Venkata Raji Reddy Kanthala

Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A first wireless device may communicate with a second wireless device using a first set of beams including a first beam and a second beam, where the first and second beams are generated via first and second sets of antenna elements, respectively. The first wireless device may compare a first power associated with the first beam and a second power associated with the second beam, and may determine that at least one antenna element from the first set of antenna elements, the second set of antenna elements, or both, is defective based on the comparison. The first wireless device may switch from the first set of beams to a second set of beams based on the at least one antenna element being defective, and communicate with the second wireless device using the second set of beams.

Beam management techniques for damaged antenna elements

Aspects generally relate to an apparatus for authenticating a user. The apparatus can include a screen, and located under the screen are a plurality of fingerprint scanners, the plurality of fingerprint scanners corresponding to respective regions of the screen. An interface requests a location of the screen that an application uses for a fingerprint scan. A screen location touched by a user is identified, and based on the screen location touched by the user and the location of the screen that an application uses for a fingerprint scan, enabling fingerprint scanners covering the region of the location of the screen.

Power saving in device with ultrasonic fingerprint sensors

The disclosure is related to locking an orientation of a display screen of a mobile display device. In an aspect, the mobile display device stores a first local orientation lock associated with a first application, wherein the first local orientation lock specifies a first orientation of the display screen to which the orientation of the display screen is to be set when the first application is displayed on the display screen, receives an instruction to display the first application, determines whether a global orientation lock for the display screen is set, wherein the global orientation lock specifies a global orientation of the display screen to which the orientation of the display screen is to be set, and sets, based on the global orientation lock being set, the orientation of the display screen to the global orientation and displaying the first application on the display screen in accordance with the global orientation.

Customizable orientation lock for a mobile display device

In currently available mobile devices (e.g., a user equipment (UE)), no authentication occurs at the mobile device to answer an incoming call at the mobile device. In an aspect of the disclosure, a method, a computer-readable medium, and an apparatus for secure call answering are provided. The apparatus is a first UE. The apparatus receives an incoming call originated from a second UE. The apparatus determines whether the incoming call originated from the second UE is a secure incoming call. The apparatus also receives a secure authentication input upon determining that the incoming call is a secure incoming call. Further, the apparatus determines whether the secure authentication input matches with authentication information upon receiving the secure authentication input. Additionally, the apparatus answers the received secure incoming call originated from the second UE when the received secure authentication input matches the authentication information.

Secure call answering

Various features related to selectively forwarding alerts/notifications for communications received at a first device to a paired device based on a user's privacy settings, are described. In an aspect of the disclosure, a method and an apparatus are provided. The apparatus maybe a first device, e.g., a UE, including at least one processor. In some configurations, the at least one processor is configured to receive a communication, and determine whether the communication is from a contact associated with a restricted group. The at least one processor maybe further configured to perform, based on the determining, one of: blocking an alert corresponding to the communication from being forwarded to a second device, or forwarding the alert corresponding to the communication to the second device. The second device maybe one of a wearable device, a car infotainment unit, a home entertainment unit, or a business conferencing unit, paired with the first device.

Methods and apparatus for selectively providing alerts to paired devices

A method for performing emergency calls includes: camping a first subscription of a mobile communication device on a first cell on a first communication network; camping a second subscription of the mobile communication device on a second cell on a second communication network; determining by the mobile communication device whether one of the first and second subscriptions supports emergency calls; and initiating an emergency call on the determined subscription.

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