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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 22, 2019
Filed:
Oct. 16, 2015
Applicant:
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Inventors:
Jeffrey C. Moore, Belmont, CA (US);
Richard M. Powell, Mountain View, CA (US);
Alexander C. Powers, San Jose, CA (US);
Anthony J. Guetta, San Carlos, CA (US);
Assignee:
APPLE INC., Cupertino, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/00 (2019.01); G06F 3/16 (2006.01); G06F 13/20 (2006.01); G11B 20/10 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/165 (2013.01); G06F 3/162 (2013.01); G06F 13/20 (2013.01); G11B 2020/10666 (2013.01);
Abstract
In one embodiment, a device-side audio handling input/output unit (DIO) of a microphone writes audio data generated by the microphone into a ring buffer. A system-side audio handling I/O unit (SIO) receives a request from a software program to consume past audio data from the ring buffer. The SIO provides the past audio data from the ring buffer to the software program. Other embodiments are also described and claimed.