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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:
Feb. 01, 2021

Filed:

Aug. 23, 2016
Applicant:

Nokia Technologies Oy, Espoo, FI;

Inventors:

Niko Kiukkonen, Veikkola, FI;

Janne Marin, Espoo, FI;

Jukka Reunamaki, Tampere, FI;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 5/00 (2005.12); H04W 4/00 (2017.12); H04W 52/02 (2008.12); H04W 4/80 (2017.12); H04W 12/00 (2008.12);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 4/80 (2018.01); H04W 12/003 (2018.12); H04W 52/028 (2012.12); H04W 52/0229 (2012.12); H04W 52/0251 (2012.12); Y02D 30/70 (2020.07);
Abstract

Example method, apparatus, and computer program product embodiments are disclosed for configuring a mobile wireless hotspot in a wireless network. Example embodiments of the invention include a method comprising: establishing, by a mobile hotspot device, a control channel with a wireless device, using an out-of-band communications connection in an out-of-band communications medium; and exchanging, by the wireless device over the control channel, with the mobile hotspot device, by at least one of transmitting or receiving in-band communications connectivity configuration information to enable power saving features and optimize activity times in an in-band communications tethering connection with the mobile hotspot device in an in-band communications medium, for relaying by the mobile hotspot device, communications between the wireless device and one or more entities in at least one of a wide area communications network and a wireless local area network provided by the mobile hotspot device.


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