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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 20, 2026
Filed:
Sep. 09, 2022
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Qiang Chen, Freemont, CA (US);
Robert W. Brumley, San Jose, CA (US);
Robert Golshan, San Francisco, CA (US);
Jinjing Jiang, Campbell, CA (US);
APPLE INC., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
A mobile device may receive a plurality of polling messages with each polling message including an identifier of a particular access device transmitting the polling message. Each polling message of the plurality of polling messages may be transmitted during a polling phase. The mobile device may select a timeslot of a response phase of a communication session. The mobile device may transmit a response message during the timeslot of the response phase. The mobile device may receive, during a third phase, an assignment message including an assigned timeslot for a response phase of a future session. The mobile device may perform secure ranging with one or more access devices of the plurality of access devices during the future session using the assigned timeslot. The mobile device may provide an access credential to the one or more access devices based on a location determined using the secure ranging.
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