Method and apparatus for mitigating interference between mobile devices in a wireless communication system

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10039041-B2
Application number	US-201715421615-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Feb 1, 2017
Priority date	Sep 30, 2015
Publication date	Jul 31, 2018
Grant date	Jul 31, 2018

Abstract

A method, apparatus, and system are provided for mitigating interference between two communication sessions based on a determined geographical proximity of two mobile devices (MDs) to each other. In one embodiment, a geographical proximity is determined of a first MD, engaged in a first communication session, to a second MD, engaged in a second communication session. Based on the determined geographical proximity, one of the two communication sessions is transferred to the other MD so that both communication sessions are resident at, and can be controlled by, a same MD. In other embodiments, wherein a first MD is engaged in two communication sessions, one of the two communication sessions may be transferred to a second MD that is sufficiently geographically distant from the first MD or the first MD may use a geographically distant remote wireless device as an uplink and downlink relay device for one of the communication sessions.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An apparatus for mitigating interference, the apparatus comprising:
a plurality of modems;
a processor that is configured to:
establish a first communication session using a modem of the plurality of modems and a first wireless communication protocol;
establish a second communication session using another modem of the plurality of modems and a second wireless communication protocol;
receiving location information associated with the user-based wireless communication device; and
determine a geographical proximity of the user-based wireless communication device based on the received location information;
based on the determined geographical proximity, comparing the determined geographical proximity of the user-based wireless communication device to a proximity threshold;
when the determined geographical proximity is greater than the proximity threshold, determining to utilize the user-based wireless communication device as a relay device for the second communication session; and
in response to determining to utilize the user-based wireless communication device as a relay device for the first communication session, establish a third communication session with the user-based wireless communication device using a third wireless communication protocol and relay communications for the first communication session via the user-based wireless communication device using the third wireless communication protocol.

2. The system of claim 1 , wherein the processor is configured to determine the geographical proximity of the user-based wireless communication device by determining whether the first mobile device is able to establish a short-range wireless link with the user-based wireless communication device.

3. The system of claim 2 , wherein the processor is configured to determine to utilize the user-based wireless communication device as a relay device for the second communication session by determining that the mobile device is unable to establish a short-range wireless link with the user-based wireless communication device.

4. The system of claim 2 , wherein the short-range wireless link comprises one of a Bluetooth link and a Wi-Fi communication link.

Assignees

• Motorola Solutions Inc
• Motorola Solutions Inc

Inventors

• Bercovici Mihael S
• Koren Eitan
• Kugman Eitan
• Shemesh Yaron Avi

Classifications

• H04W4/80

  Services using short range communication, e.g. near-field communication [NFC], radio-frequency identification [RFID] or low energy communication · CPC title

• H04W88/04

  adapted for relaying to or from another terminal or user · CPC title

• H04W76/025

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04W36/0027

  for a plurality of data sessions of end-to-end connections, e.g. multi-call or multi-bearer end-to-end data connections · CPC title

• H04W4/008

  Electricity · mapped topic