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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:
Oct. 17, 2017

Filed:

Jan. 18, 2012
Applicants:

Tom Chin, San Diego, CA (US);

Guangming Shi, San Diego, CA (US);

Kuo-chun Lee, San Diego, CA (US);

Steven D Cheng, San Diego, CA (US);

Inventors:

Tom Chin, San Diego, CA (US);

Guangming Shi, San Diego, CA (US);

Kuo-Chun Lee, San Diego, CA (US);

Steven D Cheng, San Diego, CA (US);

Assignee:

QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 72/04 (2009.01); H04W 52/02 (2009.01); H04W 76/04 (2009.01); H04B 7/0413 (2017.01); H04W 36/00 (2009.01); H04W 76/02 (2009.01); H04W 88/06 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 76/048 (2013.01); H04B 7/0413 (2013.01); H04W 52/0216 (2013.01); H04W 52/0219 (2013.01); H04W 36/0066 (2013.01); H04W 36/0088 (2013.01); H04W 76/025 (2013.01); H04W 88/06 (2013.01); Y02B 60/50 (2013.01);
Abstract

Methods and apparatuses are provided for configuring resources at a device operating in a sleep mode of a wireless network. The device can use at least some of the resources for other purposes, such as scanning neighbor base stations, acquiring system parameters of the wireless network or other networks, etc., based in part on requirements of a current interval of the sleep mode. In an available interval, a serving base station may attempt to communicate with the device, and thus, the device can keep at least one receiver chain tuned to the serving base station while assigning other resources to communicate with other base stations. In an unavailable interval, the device can assign all resources for communicating with the other base stations.


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