Apparatus and method for controlling function of communication module in portable terminal
AssigneeSamsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
InventorJin-Man Kim
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Abstract
The present disclosure relates to an apparatus and a method for controlling a function of a communication module in a portable terminal, by which the function of the communication module can be automatically turned on or off in order to reduce the consumption of a battery of the portable terminal based on a connection/disconnection pattern, so that learning pattern the communication module selectively turned on a particular cycle calculated as a learning pattern.
Claims17
An apparatus for controlling a function of a communication module in a portable terminal, comprising:
- a memory for storing times indicative of whether the communication module is operative to generate a learning pattern;
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- a controller for collecting and storing the learning pattern when the communication module is disconnected and for calculating a time for turning on the function of the communication module using the stored learning pattern;
- wherein the memory stores the learning pattern which includes relevant values obtained by discriminating times between a connection time of the communication module and a disconnection time of the communication module, the learning pattern further includes an importance value calculated according to using the relevant values to determine a particular cycle.
A method for controlling a function of a communication module in a portable terminal, the method comprising:
- collecting and storing a learning pattern when the communication module is disconnected;
- and
- calculating a time for turning on the function of the communication module using the stored learning pattern;
- wherein collecting and storing the learning pattern comprises:
- discriminating the times between a connection time of a communication module and a disconnection time of the communication module, and including the relevant values given by the discrimination to the learning pattern;
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- calculating an importance value according to each time using the relevant values, and including the calculated importance value according to each time to the learning pattern.
A terminal for saving a battery life by selectively turning on a communication module of the terminal, comprising:
- a memory for storing times indicative of whether the communication module is operative to generate a disconnection pattern;
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- a controller for collecting and storing a learning pattern when the communication module is disconnected and for calculating a time for turning on a function of the communication module using the stored learning pattern;
- wherein the memory stores the learning pattern table which includes relevant values obtained by discriminating times between a connection time of the communication module and a disconnection time of the communication module, the learning pattern further includes an importance value calculated using the relevant values to determine a particular cycle.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.