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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 14, 2026
Filed:
Sep. 27, 2023
At&t Intellectual Property I, L.p., Atlanta, GA (US);
Yupeng Jia, Austin, TX (US);
Hongyan Lei, Plano, TX (US);
AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P., Atlanta, GA (US);
Abstract
A method for managing energy consumption in a traffic-aware manner includes monitoring a level of network traffic in a wireless network to which a plurality of user devices is connected, detecting, based on the monitoring, that a current level of traffic in the wireless network has exceeded a predefined threshold level of traffic, selecting, in response to the detecting, a subset of the plurality of user devices to put into an energy saving mode, and sending, to each user device in the subset, a signaling message, where the signaling message instructs the each user device to mute, for a defined number of symbols, at least one of: a transmit capability of the each user device or a receive capability of the each user device.