Method and apparatus for utilizing the smart blanking feature of thermal mitigation

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9055470-B2
Application number	US-201313782592-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 1, 2013
Priority date	Mar 1, 2013
Publication date	Jun 9, 2015
Grant date	Jun 9, 2015

Abstract

Methods and apparatus for wireless communication via a communication device (e.g, via a 1X Advanced enabled mobile device) are discussed. Embodiments can include calculating that a temperature associated with the mobile device has exceeded a thermal threshold. Aspects of the methods and apparatus include transmitting a guarantee frame, from each set of frames to be transmitted, when the temperature associated with a mobile device has exceeded the thermal threshold. Aspects of the methods and apparatus include determining that the temperature associated with a mobile device has fallen below the thermal threshold. Aspects of the methods and apparatus also include reactivating normal transmissions upon determining that the temperature associated with the mobile device has fallen below the thermal threshold. Other aspects, embodiments, and features are also claimed and described.

First claim

We claim:

1. A method for thermal mitigation in a mobile device, comprising:
determining that a temperature associated with the mobile device has exceeded a thermal threshold;
in response to a determination that the temperature associated with the mobile device has exceeded the thermal threshold,
deactivating a transmission of voice frames for a call by the mobile device, and
transmitting a frame from a set of frames different from the voice frames and configured to maintain…

Assignees

• Qualcomm Inc

Inventors

• Sahu Debesh Kumar
• Gude Venkata Siva Prasad
• Jain Sachin

Classifications

• H04W52/0261 Primary

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04W24/04 Primary

  Electricity · mapped topic

• Y02D30/70

  Cross-Sectional Technologies · mapped topic