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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:
Apr. 14, 2020
Filed:
Aug. 17, 2017
Applicant:
Blackberry Limited, Waterloo, CA;
Inventor:
Carsten Hoirup, Crystal Lake, IL (US);
Assignee:
BLACKBERRY LIMITED, Waterloo, CA;
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 1/04 (2006.01); H04B 1/18 (2006.01); H04W 52/24 (2009.01); H04W 52/14 (2009.01); H04W 72/04 (2009.01); H04W 36/24 (2009.01); H04W 52/04 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 72/0453 (2013.01); H04B 1/0458 (2013.01); H04B 1/18 (2013.01); H04W 36/24 (2013.01); H04W 52/04 (2013.01); H04W 52/146 (2013.01); H04W 52/243 (2013.01);
Abstract
A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, adjusting a tuning state of a matching network of the communication device, selecting a power offset from among a group of power offsets where the selected power offset is associated with a sub-band of operation of the communication device, and adjusting a value associated with a measured receive power or a transmit power of the communication device based on the selected power offset to generate an offset power value. Additional embodiments are disclosed.