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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:
Apr. 14, 2015

Filed:

Sep. 11, 2012
Applicants:

Bin Tian, San Diego, CA (US);

Alok K. Gupta, San Diego, CA (US);

Ahmad Jalali, Rancho Santa Fe, CA (US);

Inventors:

Bin Tian, San Diego, CA (US);

Alok K. Gupta, San Diego, CA (US);

Ahmad Jalali, Rancho Santa Fe, CA (US);

Assignee:

QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04J 3/16 (2006.01); H04W 4/00 (2009.01); H04W 72/04 (2009.01); H04W 52/02 (2009.01); H04W 28/02 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04J 3/1694 (2013.01); H04W 4/005 (2013.01); H04W 72/0406 (2013.01); H04W 52/0216 (2013.01); H04W 52/0219 (2013.01); H04W 72/0446 (2013.01); H04W 28/0215 (2013.01);
Abstract

Methods, systems, and devices are described for managing wireless communications in a machine-to-machine (M2M) wireless Wide Area Network (WAN). A physical layer frame is generated. The frame being used for wireless M2M communications on a forward link in the M2M wireless WAN. The frame including no more than three channels. The physical layer frame including a first channel including paging channel, a second channel including a traffic channel, and a third channel including an acknowledgment (ACK) channel. A time division multiplexing (TDM) operation is performed on pilot symbols and data symbols to obtain a TDM pilot burst. At least one TDM pilot burst is inserted into each channel of the physical layer frame. The physical layer frame is transmitted on the forward link at a low data rate.


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