Qualcomm Patents a Way for 5G Networks to Ask Your Phone How Much AI It Can Handle
Before a 5G network can offload AI tasks to your phone, it needs to know how much AI horsepower your phone actually…
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Qualcomm Patents a Chip That Tightens Its Own Security When It Overheats
Hackers don't just attack software — they attack physics. By deliberately overheating a chip, they can cause it to make computational errors…
Qualcomm Patents a Wi-Fi Radar Detector That Knows Where It Is
Wi-Fi devices already have to play nice with radar systems by quickly vacating certain radio frequencies when radar is detected. Qualcomm's new…
Qualcomm Patents a Way to Pull Video from Multiple Streaming Servers at Once
Instead of your phone picking one video server and hoping for the best, Qualcomm is patenting a method that lets a device…
Qualcomm Patents a Video Decoder That Stops Waiting for Data to Arrive in Order
Qualcomm's latest patent targets a surprisingly mundane but costly problem in video decoding: processor cores sitting idle while waiting for the 'right'…
Qualcomm's New Patent Wants to Replace Wireless Rule Books with ML
Every wireless transmission involves dozens of configuration decisions — modulation scheme, power level, antenna mode — that today are handled by rigid…
Qualcomm's New Patent Patches Dropped Frames Before You Ever See Them
When you stream a game or VR scene over Wi-Fi, dropped packets can tear apart the image in ways that feel jarring…
Qualcomm's New Patent Wants to Move XR Rendering Off Your Face
Rendering a full 3D scene on a lightweight headset is brutally hard — so Qualcomm wants to move that work to a…
Qualcomm's New Patent Wants Your Phone to Bundle Related Videos Before You Hit Send
Sharing a bunch of related clips from a night out usually means hunting through your camera roll and stitching things together manually.…
Salesforce Patents a Universal Adapter That Runs Any AI Model, Anywhere
Salesforce is patenting a middleware layer that lets companies deploy machine learning models built in any framework — TensorFlow, PyTorch, you name…
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