US 12,156,040 B2
Connection assessment system
Ranjit Desai, Cupertino, CA (US); Joel N. Kerr, San Jose, CA (US); and Borna Ghavam, San Francisco, CA (US)
Assigned to Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US)
Filed by Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US)
Filed on May 13, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/320,178.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/083,085, filed on Sep. 24, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0095123 A1, Mar. 24, 2022
Int. Cl. H04W 16/22 (2009.01); G06T 11/00 (2006.01); G08B 6/00 (2006.01); H04W 4/029 (2018.01)
CPC H04W 16/225 (2013.01) [G06T 11/00 (2013.01); G08B 6/00 (2013.01); H04W 4/029 (2018.02)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A non-transitory computer readable medium having program instructions stored thereon that are executable to cause a first computing device to perform operations comprising:
collecting environment information pertaining to a layout of an environment in which the first computing device and a second computing device are located, wherein the first computing device is in wireless communication with the second computing device;
determining, based on the environment information, a location within the environment to be provided to a user of the first computing device, wherein the determined location is a location to relocate the first computing device to improve the wireless communication such that the location corresponds to a connection quality to the second computing device that satisfies a particular threshold, and wherein determining the location includes:
extrapolating a radio signal strength for the location from a radio signal strength at a current location of the first computing device within the environment; and
providing, via a display of the first computing device, an indication of the determined location to the user of the first computing device.