US 12,150,209 B2
Identification and user notification of mismatched devices
Michael Jason Giles, San Jose, CA (US); Ariane Cotte, San Francisco, CA (US); Sriram Hariharan, San Jose, CA (US); Robert D. Watson, Menlo Park, CA (US); Sarang S. Ranade, San Jose, CA (US); and David C. Graham, San Jose, CA (US)
Assigned to Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US)
Filed by Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US)
Filed on Jun. 1, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/335,724.
Application 17/335,724 is a continuation of application No. 16/143,745, filed on Sep. 27, 2018, granted, now 11,026,083.
Prior Publication US 2021/0289346 A1, Sep. 16, 2021
Int. Cl. H04W 8/22 (2009.01); G06F 9/54 (2006.01); H04M 1/72412 (2021.01); H04W 24/00 (2009.01); H04W 92/18 (2009.01)
CPC H04W 8/22 (2013.01) [G06F 9/542 (2013.01); H04M 1/72412 (2021.01); H04W 24/00 (2013.01); H04W 92/18 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A user equipment (UE), comprising:
a radio; and
a processor operably coupled to the radio and configured to cause the UE to:
receive, from a second device, one or more items of match information indicating that two wireless earphones placed in a smart storage case differ;
determine, based on the one or more items of match information, that the two wireless earphones are mismatched; and
provide, based on the determination that the two wireless earphones are mismatched, a mismatch notification.