MULTI-DIMENSIONAL ACCESS FOR MOBILE USER EQUIPMENT

• US 20100105376A1
• Filed: 07/13/2007
• Published: 04/29/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 07/13/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Avago Technologies International Sales Pte Limited (Broadcom, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: LSI Corporation (Broadcom, Inc.)
• Inventors: Choudhary, Amit
• Granted Patent: US 8,606,315 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/422.100
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/06 adapted for operation in multiple networks or having at least two operational modes, e.g. multi-mode terminals

Abstract

A mobile communications device Includes at least two long-range wireless Communications engines. Each long-range wireless communications engines includes a respectively different communications protocol stack, for receiving or transmitting first long-range wireless communications signals using a first long-range communications protocol simultaneously while receiving or transmitting second long-range wireless communications signals using a second long-range communications protocol At least two radio frequency blocks are provided, for receiving or transmitting the first long-range wireless signals simultaneously while receiving or transmitting the second long-range wireless signals. A user interface is provided for inputting and outputting user data Io and from the at least two long-range wireless communications engines, respectively.

Claims

1. Apparatus for wireless communication comprising:

(a) first means for receiving or transmitting first long-range wireless communications signals;

(b) second means for receiving or transmitting second long-range wireless communications signals simultaneously while receiving or transmitting said first long-range wireless communications signals; and

(c) means for inputting user data to the first and second long-range wireless communications engines, respectively.

2. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein each of the first and second receiving or transmitting means includes a respective long-range wireless communications engine, each including a respectively different communications protocol stack.

3. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein each of the first and second receiving or transmitting means includes a respective radio frequency block.

4. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the inputting means and each of the first and second receiving or transmitting means is included in a single housing.

5. A mobile communications device, comprising:

at least two long-range wireless communications engines, each including a respectively different communications protocol stack, for receiving or transmitting first long-range wireless communications signals using a first long-range communications protocol simultaneously while receiving or transmitting second long-range wireless communications signals using a second long-range communications protocol; and

at least two radio frequency blocks, for receiving or transmitting the first long-range wireless signals simultaneously while receiving or transmitting the second long-range wireless signals;

a user interface for inputting and outputting user data to and from the at least two long-range wireless communications engines, respectively.

6. The mobile communications device of claim 5, further comprising a single subscriber identity module (SIM) block accessible by each of the long-range wireless communications engines.

7. The mobile communications device of claim 5, wherein the first and second communications protocols include at least two of the group consisting of GSM/GPRS, WCDMA, SCDMA and WLAN.

8. The mobile communications, device of claim 5, wherein the first and second communications protocols are GSM/GPRS and WCDMA, respectively.

9. The mobile communications device of claim 5, wherein the mobile communications device is a mobile telephone.

10. The mobile communications device of claim 5, further comprising a memory that stores at least two application programs that the mobile communications device is capable of executing.

11. The mobile communications device of claim 10, wherein the at least two application programs include two of the group consisting of a file transfer protocol (FTP) interface, a streaming video interface and a streaming audio interface.

12. The mobile communications device of claim 5, wherein the at least two long-range wireless communications engines are contained within a single housing.

13. A communications method, comprising the steps of:

(a) receiving or transmitting, first long-range wireless communications signals using a first long-range wireless communications engine and a first communications protocol simultaneously while receiving or transmitting second long-range wireless communications signals using a second long-range wireless communications engine and a second communications protocol, said first and second long-range wireless communications engines contained within a single mobile communications device;

(b) receiving or transmitting the first long-range wireless signals via a first radio frequency (RF) block simultaneously while receiving or transmitting the second long-range wireless signals via a second RF block, the first and second RF blocks contained within the single mobile communications device; and

(c) inputting and outputting user data to and from the at least two long-range wireless communications engines, respectively.

14. The method of claim 13, further comprising transmitting data between a single subscriber identity module (SIM) block and each of the long-range wireless communications engines.

15. The method of claim 13, wherein the first and second communications protocols include at least two of the group consisting of GSM/GPRS, WCDMA, SCDMA and WLAN.

16. The method of claim 13, wherein the first and second communications protocols are GSM/GPRS and WCDMA.

17. The method of claim 13, wherein the single mobile communications device is a mobile telephone.

18. The method of claim 13, further comprising executing at least one application program that communicates with the first and second long-range wireless communications engines.

19. The method of claim 18, wherein the at least one application program includes two of the group consisting of a file transfer protocol (FTP) interface, a streaming video interface and a streaming audio interface.

20. The method of claim 13, wherein step (a) includes receiving packets corresponding to a single download operation via the first and second long-range wireless communications engines simultaneously.