Method for controlling power in wireless telephone set

• US 8,050,724 B2
• Filed: 12/18/2000
• Issued: 11/01/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 12/29/1999
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Park, Jae-Sun
• Primary Examiner(s): Le; Lana N
• Application Number:
  US09/739,560
• Publication Number:
  US 20010006907A1
• Time in Patent Office: 3,970 Days
• Field of Search: 455/127.1, 455/574, 455/566, 455/573, 455/572, 455 901- 903, 455/466, 455/422.1, 4553431-3436, 455/127.5, 455/127.2
• US Class Current: 455/574
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 1/40 Circuits
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/0229 where the received signal is a wanted signal
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/0254 detecting a user operation or a tactile contact or a motion of the device
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/028 switching on or off only a part of the equipment circuit blocks
• CPC Class Codes: Y02D 30/70 in wireless communication networks

Abstract

A method for controlling power in a wireless telephone set. The method includes the steps of detecting whether or not any interrupting signals have been generated and performing a user mode for supplying power only to sections necessary for operations according to an origin of the interrupting signals, when said interrupting signals are generated.

Claims

1. A method for controlling power in a wireless telephone set, comprising the steps of:

detecting if any interrupting signals have been generated according to at least one predetermined operation in a slot mode for alternating between a receiving condition and a sleeping condition at predetermined intervals, the interrupting signals are used for supplying power only to at least one section necessary for the at least one predetermined operation; and

performing a user mode for supplying power only to the at least one section necessary for the at least one predetermined operation according to an origin of the interrupting signals, when said interrupting signals are generated,

wherein the power of the user mode is less than each of power consumed in a transmission condition and power consumed in the receiving condition of the slot mode.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising a step of performing the slot mode when no interrupting signal has been detected.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising the steps of:

when the operations according to the origin of the interrupting signals are terminated, detecting whether or not there is a requirement for signal transmission; and

converting a control mode of the wireless telephone set into a transmission mode when there is a requirement for signal transmission, to supply power to a transmitting section and a receiving section.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the sections necessary for operations according to the origin of the interrupting signals include a display section and a key input section.

5. A method for controlling power in a wireless telephone set, comprising the steps of:

controlling a power supply to a receiving section and a transmitting section by using a transmitting section turn-on signal to turn on the transmitting section when the transmitting section turn-on signal is received in a slot mode for alternating between a receiving condition and a sleeping condition at predetermined intervals;

when the transmitting section turn-on signal is not received, controlling the power supply to the receiving section according to the receiving condition of slot mode control signals during the slot mode when no interrupting signal has been detected; and

when the transmitting section turn-on signal is not received, controlling a power supply to at least one section necessary for at least one predetermined operation according to an origin of an interrupting signal, when the interrupting signals has been detected,

wherein the power supplied to the at least one section necessary for the at least one predetermined operation is less than each of the power supply to the transmitting section and the power supply to the receiving section during the slot mode.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the receiving section power supply is controlled by performing a logical OR operation on the transmitting section turn-on signal and the slot mode control signals to control the turning-on of the power supply.