Apple's New Patent Helps iPhones and Cell Towers Agree on How to Run AI Together
Before your iPhone can use AI to improve its cellular connection, the phone and the tower need to be speaking the same…
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Before your iPhone can use AI to improve its cellular connection, the phone and the tower need to be speaking the same…
Most big companies run software both in the cloud and on their own physical servers, and getting those two worlds to talk…
GPS is useless inside a mall or hospital, and Samsung thinks a combination of Wi-Fi signals and your phone's motion sensors can…
Every time your phone needs a nearby server, it has to ask the network where to go. Samsung is patenting a way…
Every wireless call or data session rides on the network's ability to measure how distorted the radio signal got in transit. Samsung…
Samsung is patenting a way to bounce 5G synchronization signals off programmable reflective panels, with a timing trick that makes sure your…
Your phone already knows where you spend most of your time. Samsung is patenting a way for the network itself to figure…
Running a 5G cell tower on general-purpose server hardware is harder than it sounds. Samsung wants to give each software layer exactly…
When your phone is connected to a satellite network and tries to hand off to a cell tower, it has a timing…
Qualcomm is working on a way for wireless devices to tell the network exactly where their radio-based sensing signals are actually reaching,…
Before a drone can use a cellular connection to operate, Qualcomm's new patent would require it to pass an identity check and…
What if your city's 5G towers could track moving cars and pedestrians without a single dedicated radar unit? Intel has a patent…
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