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Date of Patent:
Oct. 21, 2025

Filed:

Aug. 02, 2022
Applicant:

Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);

Inventors:

Biljana Badic, Munich, DE;

Babar Qaisrani, Issaquah, WA (US);

Assignee:

Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 40/22 (2009.01); H04W 4/90 (2018.01); H04W 72/12 (2023.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 40/22 (2013.01); H04W 72/12 (2013.01); H04W 4/90 (2018.02);
Abstract

Implementations relate to identifying, by a relay device, a first message received from a first requesting device of a plurality of requesting devices; identifying, by the relay device, a second message received from a second requesting device of the plurality of requesting devices; determining, by the relay device based at least in part on a parameter of the first message, that the first message has a first priority level that satisfies a priority threshold; determining, by the relay device based at least in part on a parameter of the second message, that the second message has a second priority level that does not satisfy the priority threshold; transmitting a relay message to a remote device based at least in part on the first message; and transmitting a backoff message to the second requesting device.


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