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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 15, 2019
Filed:
May. 22, 2018
Google Llc, Mountain View, CA (US);
Jibing Wang, Saratoga, CA (US);
Neil Hendin, Mountain View, CA (US);
Erik Richard Stauffer, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Aamir Akram, San Jose, CA (US);
Google LLC, Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
The present disclosure describes methods and apparatuses for enhancing emergency communications in a wireless system. Implementations can be realized with an end-user device, a base station, or a combination thereof. Described implementations facilitate the institution of emergency communications with a heightened level of reliability to increase the safety of an end-user that is relying on a wireless connection to make an emergency communication. Example implementations include local transmission priority elevation, automatic audio channel modification, transmission power boosting, end-user interaction control, modulation scheme adjustment, robust category selection, prioritized resource assignment, and so forth. In some aspects, an end-user device includes a transmission data buffer to store emergency communication data having a first priority level and other communication data having a second priority level. A transmission priority elevation module elevates the first priority level above the second priority level based on the first priority level being associated with the emergency communication data.