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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.

Date of Patent:
Mar. 07, 2017

Filed:

Apr. 01, 2014
Applicant:

Marvell World Trade Ltd., St. Michael, BB;

Inventors:

Yi-Ling Chao, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Qing Zhao, Milpitas, CA (US);

Leilei Song, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Hui-Ling Lou, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Yakun Sun, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Assignee:

Marvell World Trade Ltd., St. Michael, BB;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 5/00 (2006.01); H04W 72/12 (2009.01); H04L 1/18 (2006.01); H04W 88/06 (2009.01); H04L 5/14 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 5/0078 (2013.01); H04L 1/1854 (2013.01); H04L 1/1887 (2013.01); H04W 72/1215 (2013.01); H04L 1/1812 (2013.01); H04L 1/1825 (2013.01); H04L 5/14 (2013.01); H04W 88/06 (2013.01);
Abstract

The present disclosure describes systems and techniques relating to wireless communications by devices that employ more than one wireless communication technology. According to an aspect of the described systems and techniques, a device includes: a first radio configured to communicate wirelessly with a first station in accordance with a first wireless communication technology, a second radio configured to communicate wirelessly with a second station in accordance with a second wireless communication technology, a controller configured to (i) terminate scheduled portions of time for sending communications from the first radio to the first station in favor of receiving communications from the second station to the second radio and (ii) restrict which of all available scheduled portions of time for sending communications from the first radio to the first station are provided for termination based on information about types of data transmitted in respective ones of the available scheduled portions of time.


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