Power Efficient Radio Receiver Control

A user equipment comprising:

• a plurality of radio receivers that are configured to communicatively couple to an access point;
• a processor;
• and
• a memory that stores computer-executable instructions that, in response to execution by the processor, cause the processor to perform operations comprising:
• confirming that a battery charge state of the user equipment indicates discharging, wherein at least one of a plurality of radio receivers of the user equipment is initially active to support communicative coupling with the access point via a primary component carrier radio link
• determining that a user interface state of the user equipment indicates that a data application is active on a display of the user equipment, and
• activating additional radio receivers from the plurality of radio receivers to support the primary component carrier radio link, wherein the activating is based on the battery charge state and based on the user interface state.