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Date of Patent:
Aug. 16, 2016

Filed:

Jan. 16, 2014
Applicant:

Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);

Inventors:

Sree Ram Kodali, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Giri Prassad Deivasigamani, San Jose, CA (US);

Longda Xing, San Jose, CA (US);

Assignee:

Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 36/30 (2009.01); H04W 52/14 (2009.01); H04W 52/36 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 36/30 (2013.01); H04W 52/146 (2013.01); H04W 52/367 (2013.01); Y02B 60/50 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method for reducing power consumption by a wireless communication device is disclosed. The method can include the wireless communication device determining that the device is experiencing an uplink power limited condition. In an instance in which the connection to the serving network was established only for a signaling purpose, the method can further include the wireless communication device sending a measurement report including an actual measured downlink signal quality value for the serving network in response to the uplink power limited condition. However, if the connection to the serving network was not established only for a signaling purpose, the method can include the wireless communication device sending a measurement report including a modified downlink signal quality value for the serving network to trigger a handover in response to the uplink power limited condition.


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