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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.

Date of Patent:
May. 06, 2025

Filed:

Nov. 02, 2023
Applicant:

Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);

Inventors:

Akshay Mangalam Srivatsa, Santa Clara, CA (US);

Craig P. Dooley, Los Gatos, CA (US);

David John Shaw, Ramona, CA (US);

Ganesha Adkasthala Ganapathi Batta, San Jose, CA (US);

Michael Jason Giles, San Jose, CA (US);

Sriram Hariharan, San Jose, CA (US);

Assignee:

Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 76/10 (2017.12); H04B 7/185 (2005.12); H04L 67/104 (2021.12); H04M 1/72412 (2020.12); H04W 4/08 (2008.12); H04W 4/80 (2017.12); H04W 12/04 (2020.12); H04W 12/50 (2020.12); H04W 76/14 (2017.12); H04W 84/18 (2008.12);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 4/80 (2018.01); H04L 67/104 (2012.12); H04M 1/72412 (2020.12); H04W 4/08 (2012.12); H04W 12/04 (2012.12); H04W 12/50 (2020.12); H04W 76/14 (2018.01); H04W 84/18 (2012.12);
Abstract

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.


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