公开(公告)号：US09678734B2

公开(公告)日：2017-06-13

申请号：US14861995

申请日：2015-09-22

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Gordon R. Meyer ,  Albert R. Howard, Jr. ,  Wayne Loofbourrow

IPC: G06F9/44 ,  G06F9/445 ,  H04L29/08

CPC classification number: G06F8/61 ,  G06F8/65 ,  H04L67/34

Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed that monitor upgrade availability for computer information on a user's computer and allows the user to determine which of the available upgrades will be downloaded to the user's computer and installed. The upgrade availability for computer information on the user's computer is monitored in the background, without user-intervention when the user connects to a network, such as the Internet. If any such upgrades are available, a flag is set to notify the user of such upgrades. The user is notified of any available upgrades when computer information is accessed for which an upgrade is available, and given a choice of whether or not to download the available upgrade(s). The downloaded upgrade(s) may then be installed by an installation means. In this manner, the present invention allows for the user to download only those upgrades desired by the user.

公开(公告)号：US11382017B2

公开(公告)日：2022-07-05

申请号：US16862415

申请日：2020-04-29

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Luciano M. Verger ,  Ajoy K. Singh ,  Albert R. Howard, Jr. ,  Ariane Cotte ,  Christopher M. Garrido ,  Faraz Faheem ,  Gregory R. Burns ,  Ian J. Baird ,  Imran Ahmed ,  Nicholas J. Circosta ,  Robert D. Watson ,  Rohan C. Malthankar ,  Ryan A. Williams ,  Sergey Sitnikov ,  Srinivasan Nimmala ,  Thomas Chathoth Abraham ,  Vikram B. Yerrabommanahalli

IPC: H04W36/30 ,  H04W76/15 ,  H04W36/28 ,  H04W36/36 ,  H04W76/22

Abstract: A device providing inter-device call continuity facilitated by a wireless audio output device may include a processor configured to initiate, over a peer-to-peer connection with a second device, a communication session between the second device and a third device. The processor may be further configured to establish, over the peer-to-peer connection with the second device, an audio link corresponding to the communication session. The processor may be further configured to determine, based at least in part on the audio link, that a connection quality of the peer-to-peer connection satisfies a connection degradation condition. The processor may be further configured to request, over a wide area network connection, for the communication session with the third device to be handed-off from the second device to the first device, and to establish, over the wide area network connection, the communication session with the third device.