US 10,484,945 B2 · Techniques and apparatuses for configuring a battery recovery time period for a user equipment

Abstract

Some aspects described herein reduce the negative performance impact associated with the voltage droop of a user equipment (UE) battery. For example, aspects described herein may be used to configure a UE with a pattern that includes a battery recovery time period that prevents a battery voltage of the UE from falling below a critical threshold and/or reduces the likelihood of the battery voltage falling below the critical threshold. In this way, UE performance may be improved, battery performance may be improved, battery life may be extended, and/or the like.

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Dependent claims

A method of wireless communication, comprising:

identifying, by a user equipment (UE), a pattern, the pattern identifying a battery recovery time period during which a voltage of at least one battery of the UE recovers from a voltage droop,
the pattern including a sequence of UE modes having corresponding time periods, and
the sequence of UE modes causing different loads on the at least one battery during different time periods;
configuring, by the UE, the battery recovery time period based at least in part on the pattern;
and
communicating, by the UE, with a base station based at least in part on the pattern.

3 more elements

A user equipment (UE) for wireless communication, comprising:

memory;
and
one or more processors coupled to the memory, the memory and the one or more processors configured to:
identify a pattern, wherein the pattern identifies a battery recovery time period during which a voltage of at least one battery of the UE recovers from a voltage droop
the pattern including a sequence of UE modes having corresponding time periods, and
the sequence of UE modes causing different loads on the at least one battery during different time periods;
configure the battery recovery time period based at least in part on the pattern;
and
communicate with a base station based at least in part on the pattern.

6 more elements

A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing one or more instructions for wireless communication, the one or more instructions comprising:

one or more instructions that, when executed by one or more processors of a user equipment (UE), cause the one or more processors to:
identify a pattern, wherein the pattern identifies a battery recovery time period during which a voltage of at least one battery of the UE recovers from a voltage droop,
the pattern including a sequence of UE modes having corresponding time periods, and
the sequence of UE modes causing different loads on the at least one battery during different time periods;
configure the battery recovery time period based at least in part on the pattern;
and
communicate with a base station based at least in part on the pattern.

4 more elements

An apparatus for wireless communication comprising:

means for identifying a pattern, wherein the pattern identifies a battery recovery time period during which a voltage of at least one battery of the apparatus recovers from a voltage droop,
the pattern including a sequence of modes having corresponding time periods, and
the sequence of modes causing different loads on the at least one battery during different time periods;
means for configuring the battery recovery time period based at least in part on the pattern;
and
means for communicating with a base station based at least in part on the pattern.

3 more elements

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

15/843,948Filed 15 Dec 2017

Priority

IN 20174101807223 May 2017

Published

US 2018/0343612 A129 Nov 2018

Granted

19 Nov 2019

Term ends

Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification7 codes

H04W 52/0212
In terminal devices: managed by the network, e.g. network or access point is leader and terminal is follower
H04W 52/0277
By switching on or off the equipment or parts thereof: according to available power supply, e.g. switching off when a low battery condition is…
H04L 5/16
Two-way operation using the same type of signal, i.e. duplex: half-duplex systems; Simplex/duplex switching; Transmission of break signals…
Y02D 30/70
Reducing energy consumption in communication networks: in wireless communication networks

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