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Date of Patent:
Nov. 17, 2015

Filed:

Sep. 13, 2012
Applicants:

Rashid Ahmed Akbar Attar, San Diego, CA (US);

Jing Sun, San Diego, CA (US);

Won-joon Choi, San Diego, CA (US);

Christopher Gerard Lott, San Diego, CA (US);

Inventors:

Rashid Ahmed Akbar Attar, San Diego, CA (US);

Jing Sun, San Diego, CA (US);

Won-Joon Choi, San Diego, CA (US);

Christopher Gerard Lott, San Diego, CA (US);

Assignee:

QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 4/00 (2009.01); H04B 17/02 (2006.01); H04W 52/02 (2009.01); H04B 7/08 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 52/0274 (2013.01); H04B 7/0871 (2013.01); H04B 7/0877 (2013.01); H04W 52/0225 (2013.01);
Abstract

Methods and devices performing the method for wireless communications are disclosed, where the method includes retrieving historical communications information for a plurality of receive chains for receiving communications from a wireless node; determining a number of receive chains from the plurality of receive chains to enable in a discontinuous reception mode based on the historical communications information; and enabling the number of receive chains to receive a communication from the wireless node in a communications cycle. Other aspects, embodiments, and features are also claimed and described.


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