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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Aug. 07, 2018

Filed:

Feb. 12, 2015
Applicant:

Qualcomm Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);

Inventors:

Tamer Adel Kadous, San Diego, CA (US);

Ahmed Kamel Sadek, San Diego, CA (US);

Tingfang Ji, San Diego, CA (US);

Mingxi Fan, San Diego, CA (US);

Assignee:

QUALCOMM, Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 7/26 (2006.01); H04W 16/14 (2009.01); H04W 74/04 (2009.01); H04W 72/12 (2009.01); H04W 24/10 (2009.01); H04W 84/12 (2009.01); H04W 88/10 (2009.01); H04W 84/04 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 7/2643 (2013.01); H04W 16/14 (2013.01); H04W 24/10 (2013.01); H04W 72/1215 (2013.01); H04W 74/04 (2013.01); H04W 84/045 (2013.01); H04W 84/12 (2013.01); H04W 88/10 (2013.01);
Abstract

Techniques for managing operation on a communication medium shared between Radio Access Technologies (RATs) are disclosed. The management may comprise, for example, monitoring the medium for first RAT signaling in accordance with a first RAT; determining a utilization metric associated with utilization of the medium by the first RAT signaling; cycling operation in accordance with a second RAT between activated periods and deactivated periods of communication over the medium in accordance with a Time Division Multiple Access (TDM) communication pattern based on the utilization metric; and periodically disabling the cycling to provide an AOS period of activated communication over the medium for operation in accordance with the second RAT, with the AOS period being longer than an individual activated period of the TDM communication pattern. The management may also comprise, for example, techniques for enabling/disabling monitoring by an access terminal in accordance with the TDM communication pattern.


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