Method of enabling power savings when no data is being transmitted on a media logical channel

• US 9,112,620 B2
• Filed: 03/06/2006
• Issued: 08/18/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 03/10/2005
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Qualcomm, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Qualcomm, Inc.
• Inventors: Collins, Bruce, Gautam, Shusheel
• Primary Examiner(s): Shaheed, Khalid
• Assistant Examiner(s): HEIBER, SHANTELL LAKETA
• Application Number:
  US11/369,376
• Publication Number:
  US 20060258410A1
• Time in Patent Office: 3,452 Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 1/1615 Switching on; Switching off, e.g. remotely battery saving circuits associated with selective call operation H04W52/00; details of power consumption reduction in a PLL, H03L7/0802, H03L7/14, H03L2207/08, H03L2207/18; muting amplifiers by gain control see H03G3/34
• CPC Class Codes: H04H 40/18 Arrangements characterised by circuits or components specially adapted for receiving
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/0229 where the received signal is a wanted signal
• CPC Class Codes: Y02D 30/70 in wireless communication networks

Abstract

Provided is a method and system for determining sleep periods within a communications device configured to communicate via a network. The method includes analyzing at least one of two or more data fields related to a data unit and determining device sleep periods based upon the analysis. The analysis includes determining whether or not particular MediaFLO Logical Channel data (MLC) is present within an overhead information symbols channel. If MLC data is not present, the device sleeps for a predetermined amount of time.

Claims

1. A method for determining sleep periods within a communications device, comprising:

analyzing, by the communications device, a first overhead portion of a first frame, wherein the first frame comprises at least a plurality of data frames, and wherein the first overhead portion is located at the beginning of the first frame ahead of the plurality of data frames;

determining, by the communications device, whether data will be available in a second frame subsequent to the first frame based on the analysis independent of decoding one or more of the plurality of data frames and independent of decoding a second overhead portion of the second frame, wherein the second frame is apart from the first frame; and

determining, by the communications device, the sleep periods based upon the analysis, wherein the analysis provides information associated with frames for which the communications device does not have to wake in order to check for availability of data, wherein the first overhead portion of the first frame comprises a physical layer identification of a user-selected multimedia service.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the sleep periods are consecutive sleep periods.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the sleep periods are separated by awake periods.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the communications device is configured to communicate based upon orthogonal frequency division multiplexed principles.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the analyzing is based on information from a data layer of a network.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the first frame is a superframe, and wherein the first overhead portion comprises an Overhead information symbols (OIS) channel within the superframe.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the first frame is a superframe, wherein the communications device is configured to sleep through a predetermined number of superframes, and wherein the predetermined number is greater than one.

8. An apparatus for determining sleep periods within a communications device configured to communicate via a network, comprising:

means for analyzing content of a first overhead portion of a first frame, wherein the first frame comprises at least a plurality of data frames, and wherein the first overhead portion is located at the beginning of the first frame ahead of the plurality of data frames;

means for determining whether data will be available in a second frame subsequent to the first frame based on the analysis independent of decoding one or more of the plurality of data frames and independent of decoding a second overhead portion of the second frame, wherein the second frame is apart from the first frame; and

means for determining the sleep periods based upon the analysis, wherein the analysis provides information associated with frames for which the communications device does not have to wake up in order to check for availability of data, wherein the first overhead portion of the first frame comprises a physical layer identification of a user-selected multimedia service.

9. The apparatus of claim 8, wherein the sleep periods are consecutive sleep periods.

10. The apparatus of claim 9, wherein the sleep periods are separated by awake periods.

11. The apparatus of claim 8, wherein the communications device is configured to communicate based upon orthogonal frequency division multiplexed principles.

12. The apparatus of claim 8, wherein the analyzing is based on information from a data layer of the network.

13. A transceiver configured to determine sleep periods associated with communicating via a network, comprising:

a processor configured to;

analyze content of a first overhead portion of a first frame, wherein the first frame comprises at least a plurality of data frames, and wherein the first overhead portion is located at the beginning of the first frame ahead of the plurality of data frames; and

determine whether data will be available in a second frame subsequent to the first frame based on the analysis independent of decoding one or more of the plurality of data frames and independent of decoding a second overhead portion of the second frame, wherein the second frame is apart from the first frame; and

a timer for determining the sleep periods based upon the analysis, wherein the analysis provides information associated with frames for which the transceiver does not have to wake up in order to check for availability of data, wherein the first overhead portion of the first frame comprises a physical layer identification of a user-selected multimedia service.

14. The transceiver of claim 13, wherein the first frame is a superframe, and wherein the first overhead portion comprises an Overhead information symbols (OIS) channel within the superframe.

15. A non-transitory computer readable medium carrying one or more sequences of one or more instructions for execution by one or more processors to perform a method of determining sleep periods within a communications device, the instructions when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform the steps of:

analyzing content of a first overhead portion of a first frame, wherein the first frame comprises at least a plurality of data frames, and wherein the first overhead portion is located at the beginning of the first frame ahead of the plurality of data frames;

determining whether data will be available of decoding one or more of the plurality of first frame based on the analysis independent of decoding one or more of the plurality of data frames and independent of decoding a second overhead portion of the second frame, wherein the second frame is apart from the first frame; and

determining the sleep periods based upon the analysis, wherein the analysis provides information associated with frames for which the communications device does not have to wake up in order to check for availability of data, wherein the information pertains to multimedia content requested by the communications device.

16. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 15, wherein the sleep periods are consecutive sleep periods.

17. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 15, wherein the communications device is configured to communicate based upon orthogonal frequency division multiplexed principles.

18. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 15, wherein the analyzing is based on information from a data layer of a network.