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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 31, 2016
Filed:
Jun. 22, 2012
Applicants:
Thomas Sexton, Fort Worth, TX (US);
Sagar Dhakal, Richardson, TX (US);
Paul James Lusina, Vancouver, CA;
Inventors:
Thomas Sexton, Fort Worth, TX (US);
Sagar Dhakal, Richardson, TX (US);
Paul James Lusina, Vancouver, CA;
Assignee:
BlackBerry Limited, Waterloo, Ontario, CA;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 12/26 (2006.01); H04L 7/04 (2006.01); H04W 52/38 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 7/04 (2013.01); H04W 52/386 (2013.01); Y02B 60/50 (2013.01);
Abstract
An apparatus and an associated method selects rates at which received signals are sampled in a multi-user communication system. The signals are sampled at initial sampling rates during a first period. An estimate is made of the number of received signals, and selection is made of an updated sampling rate, based in part upon the estimate.