Apparatus and methods for reducing power consumption and/or radio frequency interference in a mobile computing device
AssigneeQUALCOMM Incorporated
InventorsWen Zhao, Isabel Mahe
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Abstract
Various embodiments for reducing power consumption and radio frequency (RF) interference in a mobile computing device are described. In one or more embodiments, the mobile computing device may support cellular voice communication, wireless wide area network (WWAN) data communication, and wireless local area network (WLAN) data communication. The mobile computing device may be arranged to disable WWAN data communication whenever an available WLAN is detected to reduce RF interference and/or power consumption. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
Claims20
An apparatus comprising:
- a mobile computing device to support cellular voice communication, wireless wide area network (WWAN) data communication, and wireless local area network (WLAN) data communication, the mobile computing device comprising a channel control module to disable WWAN data communication whenever the mobile computing device is communicably connected to an available WLAN, wherein the channel control module disables the WWAN data communication by preventing the mobile computing device from periodically waking up and checking for WWAN data calls when in an idle state.
A method comprising:
- detecting an available wireless local area network (WLAN);
- and
- disabling wireless wide area network (WWAN) data communication capability of a mobile computing device whenever the mobile computing device is communicably connected to an available WLAN, the disabling comprising:
- preventing the mobile computing device from periodically waking up and checking for incoming WWAN data calls when the mobile computing device is in an idle state.
A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium comprising instructions that if executed enable a computing system to:
- detect an available wireless local area network (WLAN);
- and
- disable wireless wide area network (WWAN) data communication capability of a mobile computing device whenever the mobile computing device is communicably connected to an available WLAN by enabling the computing system to:
- prevent said mobile computing device from periodically waking up and checking for incoming WWAN data calls when said mobile computing device is in an idle state.
An apparatus having a processor and a memory, the apparatus comprising:
- means for detecting an available wireless local area network (WLAN);
- and
- means for disabling wireless wide area network (WWAN) data communication capability of a mobile computing device whenever the mobile computing device is communicably connected to an available WLAN, the means for disabling including:
- means for preventing the mobile computing device from periodically waking up and checking for incoming WWAN data calls when the mobile computing device is in an idle state.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.