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US 2018/0026777 A1Published application
User Equipment That Autonomously Selects Between Full and Half Duplex Operations
AssigneeApple Inc.
InventorsLi Su, William J. Noellert
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InventorsLi Su, William J. Noellert
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A user equipment (UE) comprises a radio having TX and RX paths that include a duplexer, thus facilitating a full-duplex mode. The radio may also have TX and RX paths that exclude the duplexer, and which thus facilitate a half-duplex mode. The UE may be configured to autonomously and opportunistically switch from the full-duplex mode (the paths that include the duplexer) to the half-duplex mode (the paths that exclude the duplexer) when the UE desires to avoid the path loss caused by the duplexer, e.g., to temporarily receive with greater sensitivity and/or transmit with more power, during poor channel conditions. At other times the UE may autonomously decide to remain in full-duplex mode to achieve reduced transmission time, e.g., during time-critical communications such as VoLTE. The UE may autonomously determine whether to use full or half-duplex mode, i.e., without requiring any coordination with network-side devices.
A user equipment (UE), comprising:
A non-transitory computer readable memory medium included in a user equipment (UE), wherein the memory medium stores program instructions executable by a processor to:
A user equipment (UE), comprising:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.