Method and apparatus for reducing power consumption of slotted mode mobile communication terminal
First Claim
1. A method for increasing a sleep period of a communication circuitry in a mobile communication terminal, the communication circuitry being repeatedly and periodically woken up for monitoring a paging channel received from a mobile communication system in an allocated paging channel slot period that is periodically repeated, the communication circuitry sleeping in a non-allocated paging channel slot period, the method comprising the steps of:
- a) setting up hardware parameters for powering off the communication circuitry when a sleep mode determination command is generated in the allocated paging channel slot period; and
b) when the hardware parameters setup is completed, immediately entering a sleep mode to power off the communication circuitry.
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Abstract
A method and apparatus for reducing power consumption of a mobile communication terminal operated at a slotted mode in a spread spectrum communication system such as a CDMA cellular mobile communication system. The mobile communication terminal reduces a paging channel monitoring time by entering a sleep mode or a wake-up mode at an arbitrary timing instead of a PN code rollover period, resulting in the increment of a standby time of the terminal.
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7 Claims
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1. A method for increasing a sleep period of a communication circuitry in a mobile communication terminal, the communication circuitry being repeatedly and periodically woken up for monitoring a paging channel received from a mobile communication system in an allocated paging channel slot period that is periodically repeated, the communication circuitry sleeping in a non-allocated paging channel slot period, the method comprising the steps of:
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a) setting up hardware parameters for powering off the communication circuitry when a sleep mode determination command is generated in the allocated paging channel slot period; and
b) when the hardware parameters setup is completed, immediately entering a sleep mode to power off the communication circuitry. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5)
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6. An apparatus for reducing power consumption in a mobile communication terminal, comprising:
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a communication circuitry that is repeatedly and periodically woken up for monitoring a paging channel received from a mobile communication system in an allocated paging channel slot period that is periodically repeated, and sleeps in a non-allocated paging channel slot period; and
a control unit that sets up hardware parameters for powering off the communication circuitry when a sleep mode determination command is generated in the allocated paging channel slot period, and enters a sleep mode to power off the communication circuitry immediately upon completing the hardware parameters set-up. - View Dependent Claims (7)
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