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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 11, 2020
Filed:
May. 30, 2018
Applicant:
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Inventors:
Jia Tang, San Jose, CA (US);
Zhu Ji, San Jose, CA (US);
Yu-Lin Wang, Fremont, CA (US);
Wei Zhang, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Assignee:
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 52/02 (2009.01); H04W 72/12 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 52/0258 (2013.01); H04W 72/1268 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method and user equipment for transmission slot blank. The method includes, at the user equipment ('UE'), establishing a voice call, determining whether the voice call currently comprises a silence period, blanking at least two slots of a control frame according to a predetermined pattern, wherein the predetermined pattern includes at least one slot that is not blanked between the at least two slots that are blanked, and transmitting the control frame.