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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 22, 2014
Filed:
Feb. 23, 2010
Applicants:
Shlomo Avital, Doar N'a Harie Yehuda, IL;
Miri Ratner, Ramat-Gan, IL;
Ofer Markovits, Haifa, IL;
Giora Rayzman, Portland, OR (US);
Eran Sudak, Tel Aviv, IL;
Inventors:
Shlomo Avital, Doar N'a Harie Yehuda, IL;
Miri Ratner, Ramat-Gan, IL;
Ofer Markovits, Haifa, IL;
Giora Rayzman, Portland, OR (US);
Eran Sudak, Tel Aviv, IL;
Assignee:
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 88/02 (2009.01); H04W 36/00 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 36/0083 (2013.01); Y02B 60/50 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method, apparatus and a wireless communication system to reduce power consumption of a wireless Multicomm device by using a location-aware scanning for detecting WLAN networks. The location awareness is obtained from a base station identifier of a wireless wide area network (WWAN) and is based on a preconfigured database that associates WWAN BS IDs with potential WLAN networks.