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Date of Patent:
Jan. 08, 2013

Filed:

Feb. 09, 2010
Applicants:

Steven D. Cheng, San Diego, CA (US);

Patrick Lim, San Diego, CA (US);

Fangqi HU, San Diego, CA (US);

Inventors:

Steven D. Cheng, San Diego, CA (US);

Patrick Lim, San Diego, CA (US);

Fangqi Hu, San Diego, CA (US);

Assignee:

QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G08C 17/00 (2006.01); H04B 7/185 (2006.01); H04B 7/208 (2006.01); H04W 4/00 (2009.01); H04W 72/00 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

Methods and apparatus for waking a mobile station (MS) from a power saving mode to receive a media access control (MAC) management message (e.g., DCD/UCD, MOB_NBR-ADV, and SII-ADV) the MS has not yet received. The MS may wake from the power saving mode after detecting a mismatch between a set of media access control (MAC) management message parameters last received by the MS and the information found in an enhanced broadcast control pointer information element (BCP-IE) transmitted in a downlink map (DL-MAP). In this manner, the MS may be prevented from waking up unnecessarily, thereby providing high power efficiency.


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