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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. 30, 2014

Filed:

Feb. 10, 2014
Applicant:

Nec Corporation, Tokyo, JP;

Inventors:

Andreas Maeder, Heidelberg, DE;

Jun Zhou, London, GB;

Michael Einhaus, Heidelberg, DE;

Yuefeng Zhou, Oxshott, GB;

Tetsu Ikeda, Kanagawa, JP;

Linghang Fan, Surrey, GB;

Assignee:

NEC Corporation, Tokyo, JP;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 40/00 (2009.01); H04W 4/00 (2009.01); H04W 52/02 (2009.01); H04W 72/08 (2009.01); H04W 84/04 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 72/082 (2013.01); Y02B 60/50 (2013.01); H04W 52/0216 (2013.01); H04W 52/0206 (2013.01); H04W 84/045 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method for operating a WiMAX femtocell base station, wherein the femtocell base station has an active operational mode, in which the radio interface subsystem of the femtocell base station is fully power supplied, is characterized in that a power saving mode with reduced radio interface activity is provided, wherein the femtocell base station is enabled to transit between the active operation mode and the power saving mode. Furthermore, a corresponding femtocell base station for deployment in a WiMAX network is disclosed.


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