Terminal having a variable duplex capability
AssigneeNokia Corporation
InventorsMika P. Rinne, Pauli Seppinen
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Abstract
A cellular telecommunications terminal having a full-duplex mode of operation and a half-duplex mode of operation, including a first cellular transmitter and a first cellular receiver operable, when the terminal is in the full-duplex mode, to transmit and receive at the same time and operable, when the terminal is in the half-duplex mode, to transmit and receive at different times and not at the same time; and a switching control for changing the mode of operation of the terminal while operating in the full-duplex mode from the full-duplex mode to the half-duplex mode.
Claims23
A cellular telecommunications terminal having a full-duplex mode of operation and a half-duplex mode of operation, comprising:
- a first cellular transmitter and a first cellular receiver operable, when the terminal is in the full-duplex mode, to transmit and receive at the same time and operable, when the terminal is in the half-duplex mode, to transmit and receive at different times and not at the same time;
- and
- a switching control for changing the mode of operation of the terminal while operating in the full-duplex mode from the full-duplex mode to the half-duplex mode
A cellular telecommunications terminal having a full-duplex mode of operation and a half-duplex mode of operation, comprising:
- a plurality of cellular transmitters and receivers;
- and
- a controller for controlling at least one of the transmitters to transmit a capability message indicating the duplex capability of each of multiple antennas.
A cellular telecommunications network element comprising:
- a controller arranged to use a received capability message indicating the duplex capability of each of multiple antennas of a terminal to allocate resources in the network.
A cellular telecommunications terminal having a full-capability mode of operation in which at least one antenna is capable of full-duplex operation and a reduced-capability mode of operation in which the at least one antenna is capable of half-duplex operation, the terminal comprising:
- a plurality of cellular transmitters and receivers;
- and
- a controller for controlling at least one of the transmitters to transmit a capability message indicating the reduced-capability mode of operation.
A cellular telecommunications network element comprising:
- a controller arranged to use a received capability message indicating the reduced-capability mode of operation to allocate resources in the network.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.