Managing modem power consumption

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9367113-B2
Application number	US-201313739655-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jan 11, 2013
Priority date	Jan 11, 2013
Publication date	Jun 14, 2016
Grant date	Jun 14, 2016

Abstract

Methods, systems, and devices are described for managing power consumption in a modem of a mobile device. A receive power associated with a receiver of the modem may be measured during a scheduled power-up of the modem associated with checking for paging messages. A power consumption metric associated with transmitting a pending wireless data transaction at a transmitter of the modem may then be estimated based on the measured receive power associated with the receiver. A determination of whether to transmit the pending wireless data transaction at a first time may then be made based at least in part on the estimated power consumption metric.

First claim

I claim:

1. A method of managing power consumption in a modem of a mobile device, comprising:
receiving, from an application running on the mobile device, a request for a power consumption metric indicating a cost of transmitting, from the mobile device, a pending wireless data transaction originating at the application, wherein the request is received while the modem is in an idle state;
buffering the request while the modem is in the idle state until a scheduled power-up of th…

Assignees

• Qualcomm Inc

Inventors

• Attar Rashid Ahmed Akbar

Classifications

• G06F1/3206 Primary

  Physics · mapped topic

• H04W52/0245 Primary

  Electricity · mapped topic

• Y02B60/50

  Cross-Sectional Technologies · mapped topic

• Y02D30/70

  Cross-Sectional Technologies · mapped topic