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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 07, 2016
Filed:
Dec. 06, 2013
Qualcomm Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);
Lijun Lin, Chula Vista, CA (US);
Kamalakar Ganti, San Diego, CA (US);
QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);
Abstract
Access terminals are configured to decrease awake state durations (and conversely increase standby state durations) utilizing a preamble skip operation. According to one example, an access terminal may assign a finger of a receiver to receive a control channel transmission at a time after a beginning of a preamble of the control channel transmission, and before an initial boundary of a slot after a first slot of the control channel transmission, the preamble of the control channel transmission including information corresponding to a data rate of the control channel transmission. The access terminal may further be configured to decode the control channel transmission in accordance with a predicted data rate. Other aspects, embodiments, and features are also included.