Google's New Patent Stops Your Phone From Waiting on Its Own SIM Card
Every time your phone connects to a carrier network, your SIM card and modem go through a slow back-and-forth handshake. Google has…
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Every time your phone connects to a carrier network, your SIM card and modem go through a slow back-and-forth handshake. Google has…
When your cloud server sends thousands of data packets at once, they don't always arrive in the right order. Amazon is patenting…
Running AR or VR on a headset is brutally power-hungry, so the heavy computer-vision work gets pushed to a server. The catch:…
Most location tech relies on a cell tower or satellite to tell your phone where it is. Apple's new patent describes a…
Apple is patenting a way to let one device act as a mini traffic controller for a cluster of nearby devices borrowing…
Most cloud monitoring watches the whole network at once, which means small problems affecting specific customers get buried in the noise. Microsoft's…
Your phone's radio chip is doing nothing for tiny fractions of every second. Apple wants to use those gaps to sneak in…
Most Wi-Fi networks let any device in range start probing them for information. Apple's new patent describes a system where a device…
Your phone figures out where you are by measuring how long signals take to arrive from nearby cell towers. Samsung has filed…
Every time your phone silently switches from one Wi-Fi access point to another in your office or home, there's a brief moment…
Every so often, your phone's SIM card issues a refresh command to update its settings, and if your phone acts on it…
5G networks carve themselves into separate 'slices' for different customers, and those slices don't normally share data. Samsung's new patent describes a…
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