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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.

Date of Patent:
Nov. 30, 2021

Filed:

Jun. 08, 2020
Applicant:

Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);

Inventors:

Li Su, San Jose, CA (US);

Stephan V. Schell, San Mateo, CA (US);

Jianxiong Shi, Dublin, CA (US);

Sami M. Almalfouh, San Jose, CA (US);

Assignee:

Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 52/02 (2009.01); H04W 72/02 (2009.01); H04J 3/16 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 52/0251 (2013.01); H04J 3/1694 (2013.01); H04W 52/0261 (2013.01); H04W 52/0277 (2013.01); H04W 72/02 (2013.01); Y02B 70/30 (2013.01); Y02D 30/70 (2020.08);
Abstract

A user equipment device (UE) may implement improved communication methods which include radio resource time multiplexing, dynamic sub-frame allocation, and UE transmit duty cycle control. The UE may communicate with base stations using radio frames that include multiple sub-frames, transmit information regarding allocation of a portion of the sub-frames of a respective radio frame for each of a plurality of the radio frames, and transmit and receive data using allocated sub-frames and not using unallocated sub-frames. Additionally, the UE may operate according to a sub-frame allocation based on its current power state. The UE may transmit information to the base station and receive the sub-frame allocation based on at least the information and switch transmit duty cycles based on an occurrence of a condition at the UE. The UE may inform the network of the switch.


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