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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 17, 2017
Filed:
Jul. 14, 2011
NA Wei, Beijing, CN;
Chunyan Gao, Beijing, CN;
Haiming Wang, Beijing, CN;
Erlin Zeng, Beijing, CN;
Wei Bai, Beijing, CN;
Wei Hong, Beijing, CN;
Jing Han, Beijing, CN;
Gilles Charbit, Farnborough, GB;
Na Wei, Beijing, CN;
Chunyan Gao, Beijing, CN;
Haiming Wang, Beijing, CN;
Erlin Zeng, Beijing, CN;
Wei Bai, Beijing, CN;
Wei Hong, Beijing, CN;
Jing Han, Beijing, CN;
Gilles Charbit, Farnborough, GB;
BROADCOM CORPORATION, Irvine, CA (US);
Abstract
A method, apparatus and computer program product are provided facilitating flexible time sharing among systems. A method and apparatus may generate a secondary component carrier transmission plan including planned on and off durations. The planned on durations correspond to a time period for an apparatus and devices to communicate via an unlicensed band of the secondary component carrier. The planned off durations correspond to a time interval in which the devices may deactivate from the unlicensed band or remain disconnected from the unlicensed band. The method and apparatus may also enable provision of the plan to the devices via a licensed band of a primary component carrier and detecting a medium of the unlicensed band prior to the expiration of the time period to determine whether the medium is available in order to decide whether to turn on transmissions to the unlicensed band after one of the planned off durations.