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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 14, 2018
Filed:
Oct. 29, 2015
Applicant:
Netgear, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Inventor:
Steve Skeoch, Carlsbad, CA (US);
Assignee:
NETGEAR, INC., San Jose, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04M 1/00 (2006.01); H04N 5/232 (2006.01); H04W 52/02 (2009.01); H04W 84/12 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/23206 (2013.01); H04W 52/0235 (2013.01); H04W 84/12 (2013.01); Y02D 70/00 (2018.01); Y02D 70/142 (2018.01);
Abstract
The invention is directed to a radio unit contained within a housing of a wireless communication device or system, the radio unit including: a signal processing unit for performing one or more wireless protocol processing functions; a radio-frequency (RF) front end unit coupled to the signal processing unit; and a power unit coupled to the RF front end unit, wherein the power unit completely powers down the RF front end unit when the signal processing unit is in a sleep mode, and powers up the RF front end unit at a predetermined time before an anticipated reception of a RF signal transmitted by an external device.