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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 18, 2006
Filed:
May. 02, 2003
An Mei Chen, San Diego, CA (US);
Ling Hang, San Diego, CA (US);
Sajith Balraj, San Diego, CA (US);
Ben Saidi, San Diego, CA (US);
An Mei Chen, San Diego, CA (US);
Ling Hang, San Diego, CA (US);
Sajith Balraj, San Diego, CA (US);
Ben Saidi, San Diego, CA (US);
QUALCOMM, Inc., San Diego, CA (US);
Abstract
Methods and apparatus for exchanging information with a dormant target communication device provide for locating a dormant target communication device by a wireless infrastructure, forwarding information to the dormant target communication device by the wireless infrastructure, and allowing the dormant target communication device, upon receiving said information from the wireless structure, to start forwarding information to the wireless structure. The methods and apparatus further provides for piggybacking information sent to and/or received from the dormant target communication device.