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Date of Patent:
Jan. 13, 2015

Filed:

May. 05, 2011
Applicants:

Jianqiang He, San Diego, CA (US);

Kai Bai, Laveen, AZ (US);

Gene Fong, San Diego, CA (US);

Inventors:

Jianqiang He, San Diego, CA (US);

Kai Bai, Laveen, AZ (US);

Gene Fong, San Diego, CA (US);

Assignee:

QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 52/02 (2009.01); H04W 8/00 (2009.01); H04B 1/38 (2006.01); H04W 88/06 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 52/0238 (2013.01); H04W 8/005 (2013.01); H04B 1/3805 (2013.01); H04W 52/028 (2013.01); Y02B 60/50 (2013.01); H04W 52/0235 (2013.01); H04W 88/06 (2013.01);
Abstract

A BT receiver RF front end receives RF energy in a sequence of BT scan windows. Throughout a scan window, the front end is tuned to one hop frequency. Before and after the window the front end is in a disabled state. A WLAN energy detector processes an output of the front end during the window and determines whether more than a predetermined amount of RF energy was received onto the front end during the window. A BT baseband processor attempts to demodulate the output of the front end. If the WLAN energy detector determines that the predetermined amount of RF energy was received and if a BT signal could not be demodulated, then a WLAN wake-up signal is asserted, thereby causing a WLAN transceiver to be powered up to receive WLAN signals. BT scan intervals are varied in duration to facilitate a BT scan window overlapping a WLAN beacon.


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