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Date of Patent:
Jun. 30, 2015

Filed:

Oct. 03, 2013
Applicant:

Qualcomm Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);

Inventors:

Sandip Homchaudhuri, San Jose, CA (US);

Pradeep Baliganapalli Nagaraju, Milpitas, CA (US);

Nitin Ashok Changlani, San Jose, CA (US);

Jason Alexander Young, Sacramento, CA (US);

Arunkumar Jayaraman, San Jose, CA (US);

Assignee:

QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04J 1/16 (2006.01); H04W 52/02 (2009.01); H04W 28/02 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 52/0238 (2013.01); H04W 28/0284 (2013.01);
Abstract

Power saving for wireless communication devices by adjusting the amount of time, after a last transmission/reception of data, that the device remains in an awake mode listening for more data before the device enters a sleep mode. This time period may be referred to as inactivity time interval or inactivity timeout (ITO). The described features may be employed to improve power savings by taking metrics of channel congestion into account for determining the ITO. The appropriate ITO may be determined to be commensurate with ongoing transmission and/or reception activity. Because error may occur in estimating channel congestion and/or transmission/reception activity, latency bounds based on estimation errors may be managed by classifying the operational mode into multiple regions and employing techniques for mitigating error in congestion estimation based at least in part on the operational mode.


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