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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 09, 2016
Filed:
Feb. 05, 2014
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Navid Damji, Cupertino, CA (US);
Giri Prassad Deivasigamani, San Jose, CA (US);
Johnson O. Sebeni, Fremont, CA (US);
Luciano M. Verger, San Jose, CA (US);
Madhusudan Chaudhary, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Samy Khay-Ibbat, San Francisco, CA (US);
Sarma V. Vangala, San Jose, CA (US);
Shivesh Makharia, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Sree Ram Kodali, Cupertino, CA (US);
Srinivasan Vasudevan, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Thanigaivelu Elangovan, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Zhu Ji, San Jose, CA (US);
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
A method for reducing power consumption in connected mode discontinuous reception is disclosed. The method can include a wireless communication device sending a transmission for a pending HARQ retransmission process and receiving an ACK for the transmission. The method can further include the wireless communication device determining a subset of remaining uplink transmission opportunities in the pending HARQ retransmission process to monitor for an uplink grant in response to receiving the ACK and monitoring the subset of remaining uplink transmission opportunities for an uplink grant. The method can additionally include the wireless communication device entering a sleep state for any uplink transmission opportunities remaining in the pending HARQ retransmission process after monitoring the subset of remaining uplink transmission opportunities in an instance in which an uplink grant for the pending HARQ retransmission process is not received for any of the subset of remaining uplink transmission opportunities.