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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 14, 2020
Filed:
Aug. 04, 2015
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Maruti Gupta, Portland, OR (US);
Rath Vannithamby, Portland, OR (US);
Satish C. Jha, Hillsboro, OR (US);
Kathiravetpillai Sivanesan, Richardson, TX (US);
Mohammad Mamunur Rashid, Hillsboro, OR (US);
Jing Zhu, Portland, OR (US);
APPLE INC., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
Technology described herein provides systems and technologies that help avoid waste of wireless network resources due to frequent losses of wireless connectivity with energy-harvesting devices (EHDs). An energy-harvesting-indicator communication can be sent from a wireless device to a cellular base station to inform the cellular base station that the wireless device is an EHD. The cellular base station can preserve context information and/or DL data pertaining to a wireless connection with the EHD when a wireless connection is lost due to a temporarily low level of available energy at the EHD. The context information and/or DL data can be preserved by the cellular base station until the period of time elapsed exceeds a threshold time value. Upon receiving a connection-resumption communication from the EHD, the cellular base station can use preserved context information to restore the wireless connection and proceed to send preserved DL data to the EHD.