US 12,143,895 B2
Pairing groups of accessories
Siva Ganesh Movva, Cupertino, CA (US); Tunc Ertan, San Francisco, CA (US); Ariane Cotte, San Francisco, CA (US); Kerry Nguyen, Milpitas, CA (US); Anita Desai, San Francisco, CA (US); Steven Douglas Laver, San Diego, CA (US); Brent Ledvina, San Francisco, CA (US); Kenneth U. Victa, San Jose, CA (US); Ping-Ko Chiu, San Francisco, CA (US); and Michał Adam Kałużny, Berlin (DE)
Assigned to Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US)
Filed by Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US)
Filed on Oct. 22, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/508,334.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/197,293, filed on Jun. 4, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0394428 A1, Dec. 8, 2022
Int. Cl. H04W 4/029 (2018.01); H04W 12/50 (2021.01); H04W 76/14 (2018.01)
CPC H04W 4/029 (2018.02) [H04W 12/50 (2021.01); H04W 76/14 (2018.02)] 22 Claims
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1. A method for finding a device group, the method comprising:
receiving an indication that a first accessory device is part of a device group, wherein the first accessory device is connected to a second accessory device in the device group;
receiving a beacon signal from the first accessory device in the device group, wherein the beacon signal includes at least connection status information between the first accessory device and the second accessory device;
determining, based on the at least connection status information, to attribute location data for the first accessory device to the second accessory device; and
storing the location data corresponding to the beacon signal for the device group.