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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:
Jul. 15, 2014

Filed:

Nov. 10, 2010
Applicants:

Brendan Mcwilliams, Madrid, ES;

Francisco Javier Dominguez Romero, Madrid, ES;

Yannick Le Pezennec, Madrid, ES;

Inventors:
Assignee:

Vodafone Group PLC, Newbury, Berkshire, GB;

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 52/02 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

Method and network element for reducing energy consumption in WCDMA cells of a mobile network, the method comprising: monitoring traffic conveyed in the traffic channels of a cell; analyzing certain predetermined parameters in the monitored traffic; determining whether said predetermined parameters meet corresponding predetermined conditions; and when said predetermined conditions are met, switching off continuous transmission of common channels and facilitating the intermittent transmission of the common channels during one or more transmission events, thereby causing the cell to enter a cell standby mode.


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