Throttle control method and system for mobile device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12549978-B2
Application number	US-202318132449-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Apr 10, 2023
Priority date	Oct 12, 2022
Publication date	Feb 10, 2026
Grant date	Feb 10, 2026

Abstract

A throttle control method for a mobile device include collecting input data, generating a first set of user experience indices according to the input data, and checking whether a user experience index of the first set of user experience indices satisfies a UEI threshold. The input data includes common information data, current configuration data and a plurality of throttle control parameters. Each user experience index of the first set of user experience indices is corresponding to at least one of throttle control parameter of the plurality of throttle control parameters.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1 . A throttle control method for a mobile device comprising:
collecting input data; generating a first set of user experience indices (UEI) according to the input data; and checking whether a user experience index of the first set of user experience indices satisfies a UEI threshold; wherein:
the input data comprises common information data, current configuration data and a plurality of throttle control parameters; and
each user experience index of the first set of user experience indices is corresponding to at least one of throttle control parameter of the plurality of throttle control parameters.

2 . The throttle control method of claim 1 further comprising:
assigning user experience indices of the first set of user experience indices satisfying the UEI threshold to a second set of user experience indices; and
selecting at least one throttle control parameter of the plurality of throttle control parameters corresponding to a user experience index of the second set of user experience indices.

3 . The throttle control method of claim 2 further comprising applying the selected throttle control parameter to configure the mobile device.

4 . The throttle control method of claim 2 further comprising sending the selected throttle control parameter to a wireless network.

5 . The throttle control method of claim 2 , wherein selecting at the least one throttle control parameter corresponding to a user experience index of the second set of user experience indices is selecting the least one throttle control parameter corresponding to an optimal user experience index of the second set of user experience indices.

6 . The throttle control method of claim 2 , wherein the user experience indices of the first set of user experience satisfying the UEI threshold are the user experience indices higher than the UEI threshold.

7 . The throttle control method of claim 1 further comprising:
generating a plurality of performance parameters according to the input data;
assigning user experience indices of the first set of user experience indices satisfying the UEI threshold to a second set of user experience indices;
assigning user experience indices of the second set of user experience indices with corresponding performance parameters satisfying a performance threshold to a third set of user experience indices; and
selecting at least one throttle control parameter corresponding to a user experience index of the third set of user experience indices.

8 . The throttle control method of claim 7 wherein the performance parameters comprise at least one of power downgrade and temperature downgrade.

9 . The throttle control method of claim 7 , wherein selecting at the least one throttle control parameter corresponding to a user experience index of the third set of user experience indices is selecting the least one throttle control parameter corresponding to an optimal user experience index of the third set of user experience indices.

10 . The throttle control method of claim 1 further comprising:
generating a plurality of performance parameters according to the input data;
assigning user experience indices of the first set of user experience indices satisfying the UEI threshold and having performance parameters satisfying a performance threshold to a second set of user experience indices;
selecting at least one throttle control parameter corresponding to a user experience index of the second set of user experience indices.

11 . The throttle control method of claim 10 , wherein selecting at the least one throttle control parameter corresponding to a user experience index of the second set of user experience indices is selecting the least one throttle control parameter corresponding to an optimal user experience index of the second set of user experience indices.

12 . The throttle control method of claim 1 , wherein generating the first set of user experience indices according the input data is generating the first set of user experience indices according to the input data through at least one of a machine learning model, a handcrafted algorithm, and an expert system.

13 . The throttle control method of claim 12 , wherein the machine learning model comprises an equation:
UEI=DL_ T put× w 1+UL_ T put× w 2+VQ×w3+Latency× w 4

wherein:
UEI is the user experience index;
DL_Tput is downlink throughput downgrade level;
UL_Tput is uplink throughput downgrade level;
VQ is voice quality downgrade level;
Latency is latency downgrade level; and
w 1 , w 2 , w 3 and w 4 are weights.

14 . The throttle control method of claim 1 , wherein the throttle control parameters comprise at least one of transmit (TX) power control, uplink throttle, antenna in module head switch, MIMO reduction, receives (RX) numbers reduction, bandwidth reduction and component carrier (CC) reduction.

15 . The throttle control method of claim 1 , wherein the current configuration data comprises at least one of number of component carriers, a bandwidth, number of MIMO layers, number of receives (Rx), a transmit (Tx) power limitation, an uplink throttle status and antenna in module (AiM) utilization.

16 . A mobile device comprising:
an antenna; a memory; and a processor coupled to the memory and the antenna, configured to:
collect input data, the input data comprising common information data, current configuration data and a plurality of throttle control parameters;
generate a first set of user experience indices according to the input data;
check whether a user experience index of the first set of user experience satisfies a UEI threshold;
assign user experience indices of the first set of user experience indices satisfying the UEI threshold to a second set of user experience indices;
select at least one throttle control parameter of the plurality of throttle control parameters corresponding to a user experience index of the second set of user experience indices; and
apply the selected throttle control parameter to configure the mobile device;
wherein each user experience index of the first set of user experience indices is corresponding to at least one of throttle control parameter of the plurality of throttle control parameters.

17 . The mobile device of claim 16 , wherein the processor is further configured to select at least one throttle control parameter corresponding to an optimal user experience index of the second set of user experience indices.

18 . The mobile device of claim 16 , wherein the current configuration data comprises at least one of number of component carriers, a bandwidth, number of MIMO layers, number of receives (Rx), a transmit (Tx) power limitation, an uplink throttle status and antenna in module (AiM) utilization.

19 . The mobile device of claim 16 , wherein the throttle control parameters comprise at least one of transmit (TX) power control, uplink throttle, antenna in module head switch, MIMO reduction, receives (RX) numbers reduction, bandwidth reduction and component carrier (CC) reduction.

Assignees

• Mediatek Singapore Pte Ltd

Inventors

• Chen Hung-Yueh
• Kim Byeng Hyun
• Shin Jung Shup
• Chen Shih-Hsin
• Lai Chih-Chieh
• Lee Chung-Pi
• Lee Jungwoo
• Chang Yu-Lun

Classifications

• H04L41/5067

  Customer-centric QoS measurements · CPC title

• H04B1/3827 Primary

  Portable transceivers · CPC title

• H04L41/145

  involving simulating, designing, planning or modelling of a network · CPC title

• H04L43/0888

  Throughput · CPC title

• H04L43/0852

  Delays · CPC title