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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 22, 2016
Filed:
Jan. 22, 2016
Broadcom Corporation, Irvine, CA (US);
Farouk Belghoul, Campbell, CA (US);
Kameswara Rao Medapalli, San Jose, CA (US);
Broadcom Corporation, Irvine, CA (US);
Abstract
A device with concurrent long-term evolution (LTE) and WLAN uplink transmission includes a WLAN transceiver coupled to an LTE transceiver via an interface. The LTE transceiver includes an LTE Layer-1 module that determines whether an LTE data downlink activity is scheduled for an LTE downlink sub-frame of an LTE time frame, based on information in a first portion of the LTE downlink sub-frame. When determination is made that the LTE data downlink activity is not scheduled for the LTE downlink sub-frame, a message may be communicated through the interface to notify the WLAN transceiver that the second portion of the LTE downlink sub-frame is available for WLAN communication. The LTE time frame includes multiple LTE downlink sub-frames each including the first portion and a second portion. The first portion provides the information that indicates whether the LTE data downlink activity is scheduled for the second portion of that LTE sub-frame.