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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 24, 2016
Filed:
Jul. 19, 2012
Applicants:
Lizhong Zhu, Waterloo, CA;
Joseph Caci, Waterloo, CA;
Keith Manssen, Bull Valley, IL (US);
Inventors:
Assignee:
BlackBerry Limited, Waterloo, ON, CA;
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 1/40 (2015.01); H04B 1/18 (2006.01); H04B 1/04 (2006.01); H01Q 3/26 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 1/18 (2013.01); H04B 1/0458 (2013.01); H01Q 3/267 (2013.01);
Abstract
A system that incorporates teachings of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a controller that determines a radiated throughput for at least one of an uplink throughput or a downlink throughput of the communication device, reduces transmit power for the communication device responsive to the radiated throughput satisfying a throughput threshold, and tunes a matching network of the communication device responsive to the radiated throughput not satisfying the throughput threshold. Other embodiments are disclosed.