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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:
Dec. 06, 2011

Filed:

Apr. 30, 2008
Applicants:

William Reinisch, New York, NY (US);

Craig Watson, Bassett Southampton, GB;

David Wheatley, Tower Lakes, IL (US);

Nitya Narasimhan, Lake Zurich, IL (US);

Inventors:

William Reinisch, New York, NY (US);

Craig Watson, Bassett Southampton, GB;

David Wheatley, Tower Lakes, IL (US);

Nitya Narasimhan, Lake Zurich, IL (US);

Assignee:

Motorola Solutions, Inc., Schaumburg, IL (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 1/38 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

A method and apparatus are provided for operating a wireless communication device. The method includes the steps of providing a plurality of battery powered modules that are carried by a user and together operate as the wireless communication module (ensemble), detecting a battery reserve power level of a first module of the plurality of modules and transferring a processing function from the first module to a second module of the plurality of modules based upon the detected battery reserve power.


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