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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 03, 2005
Filed:
Oct. 16, 2000
Applicant:
Arthur James Neufeld, San Diego, CA (US);
Inventor:
Arthur James Neufeld, San Diego, CA (US);
Assignee:
Qualcomm Inc., San Diego, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04Q007/32 ; H04Q007/20 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method and system of reducing average power consumption in a wireless communication device (WCD) that operates in sleep and awake modes during monitoring of a slotted paging channel includes the steps of providing a plurality of counters; establishing a roll over point for each counter at a predetermined offset relative to each other counter; identifying a timing, point for at least one roll over point; and transitioning between the sleep and awake modes during the occurrence of an identified timing point.