Antenna hopping for specific absorption rate (sar) reduction
AssigneeAltera Corporation
InventorsSanthosh AP, Madhukiran SREENIVASAREDDY, Vamshi Krishna AAGIRU, Nithesha ANANDA
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Abstract
A method comprising: retrieving a predefined power threshold; determining a transmission power of a transmitting antenna, wherein the transmitting antenna is actively transmitting a signal; retrieving a predefined transmission time interval; determining that the transmission power exceeds the predefined power threshold; determining a duration of transmitting the signal; comparing the duration with the predefined transmission time interval; and switching transmitting the signal from the transmitting antenna to a further antenna when the duration equals the predefined transmission time interval.
Claims16
A mobile communication device comprising:
- an antenna;
- a plurality of further antennas;
- and
- a processor configured to:
- retrieve a predefined power threshold;
- determine that the antenna is transmitting a signal at a transmission power;
- retrieve a predefined transmission time interval;
- determine that the transmission power exceeds the predefined power threshold;
- determine a duration of transmitting the signal;
- compare the duration with the predefined transmission time interval;
- and
- switch transmitting the signal from the antenna to a further antenna of the plurality of further antennas, if the duration reaches the predefined transmission time interval.
A method comprising:
- retrieving a predefined power threshold;
- determining a transmission power of a transmitting antenna, wherein the transmitting antenna is actively transmitting a signal;
- retrieving a predefined transmission time interval;
- determining that the transmission power exceeds the predefined power threshold;
- determining a duration of transmitting the signal;
- comparing the duration with the predefined transmission time interval;
- and
- switching transmitting the signal from the transmitting antenna to a further antenna when the duration equals the predefined transmission time interval.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.