Apparatus, method and system of controlling communications of a multi-radio device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9596659-B2
Application number	US-201414494672-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 24, 2014
Priority date	Sep 24, 2014
Publication date	Mar 14, 2017
Grant date	Mar 14, 2017

Abstract

Some demonstrative embodiments include devices, systems and methods of controlling communications of a multi-radio device. For example, a multi-radio device may include a cellular controller to control communication of a cellular radio; and a BT controller to control a transmission power of a BT radio according to a first power level, the BT controller is to receive from the cellular controller an indication of a cellular downlink period, and, during the cellular downlink period, to restrict a transmission power of at least one BT discovery packet to no more than a second power level, which is less than the first power level.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A multi-radio device comprising:
a cellular controller to control communication of a cellular radio; and
a Bluetooth (BT) controller to control a transmission power of a BT radio according to a first power level, said BT controller is to receive from said cellular controller an indication of a cellular downlink period, and, during said cellular downlink period, to restrict a transmission power of at least one BT discovery packet to no more than a second power level, which is less than said first power level,
wherein said cellular controller is to determine said second power level, and to send to said BT controller an indication of said second power level.

2. The multi-radio device of claim 1 , wherein said cellular controller is to dynamically update said second power level.

3. The multi-radio device of claim 2 , wherein said cellular controller is to dynamically update said second power level, based on a cellular channel noise.

4. The multi-radio device of claim 3 , wherein said cellular controller is to determine a first cellular channel noise level of said cellular radio based on said first power level, and a second cellular channel noise level of said cellular radio based on one or more cellular channel parameters, said cellular controller is to update said second power level, based on said first and second cellular channel noise levels.

5. The multi-radio device of claim 1 , wherein said cellular radio is to communicate over a first frequency during said cellular downlink period, and said BT radio is to transmit said BT discovery packet over a second frequency, said BT controller is to select to restrict said transmission power of said BT discovery packet, based on a comparison between said first and second frequencies.

6. The multi-radio device of claim 1 , wherein said BT controller is to control the transmission power of said BT radio according to said first power level during a cellular uplink period.

7. The multi-radio device of claim 1 , wherein said cellular downlink period comprises a downlink subframe period.

8. The multi-radio device of claim 1 , wherein said at least one BT discovery packet comprises at least one packet selected from the group consisting of a BT inquiry packet and a BT paging packet.

9. The multi-radio device of claim 1 , wherein said cellular radio comprises a Long Term Evolution (LTE) radio.

10. The multi-radio device of claim 1 , comprising a mobile device including one or more antennas, a processor, and a memory.

11. A wireless communication system comprising:
one or more antennas;
a processor;
a memory;
a Bluetooth (BT) radio;
a cellular radio;
a cellular controller to control communication of said cellular radio; and
a BT controller to control a transmission power of said BT radio according to a first power level, said BT controller is to receive from said cellular controller an indication of a cellular downlink period, and, during said cellular downlink period, to restrict a transmission power of at least one BT discovery packet to no more than a second power level, which is less than said first power level,
wherein said cellular controller is to determine said second power level, and to send to said BT controller an indication of said second power level.

12. The system of claim 11 , wherein said cellular radio is to communicate over a first frequency during said cellular downlink period, and said BT radio is to transmit said BT discovery packet over a second frequency, said BT controller is to select to restrict said transmission power of said BT discovery packet, based on a comparison between said first and second frequencies.

13. The system of claim 11 , wherein said cellular controller is to dynamically update said second power level.

14. The system of claim 13 , wherein said cellular controller is to dynamically update said second power level, based on a cellular channel noise.

15. A method of wireless communication to be performed by a multi-radio device including a cellular controller to control communication of a cellular radio, and a Bluetooth (BT) controller to control communication of a BT radio, the method comprising:
controlling a transmission power of the BT radio according to a first power level;
determining at said cellular controller a second power level, which is less than said first power level;
sending an indication of said second power level from said cellular controller to said BT controller;
receiving at said BT controller an indication of a cellular downlink period from said cellular controller; and
during said cellular downlink period, restricting a transmission power of at least one BT discovery packet to no more than the second power level.

16. The method of claim 15 comprising dynamically updating said second power level, based on a cellular channel noise.

17. The method of claim 15 comprising dynamically updating said second power level.

18. A product including one or more tangible computer-readable non-transitory storage media comprising computer-executable instructions operable to, when executed by at least one computer processor, enable the at least one computer processor to implement operations at a multi-radio device including a cellular controller to control communication of a cellular radio, and a Bluetooth (BT) controller to control communication of a BT radio, the operations comprising:
controlling a transmission power of the BT radio according to a first power level;
determining at said cellular controller a second power level, which is less than said first power level;
sending an indication of said second power level from said cellular controller to said BT controller;
receiving at said BT controller an indication of a cellular downlink period from said cellular controller; and
during said cellular downlink period, restricting a transmission power of at least one BT discovery packet to no more than the second power level.

19. The product of claim 18 , wherein said cellular downlink period comprises a downlink subframe period.

20. The product of claim 18 , wherein the operations comprise dynamically updating said second power level.

21. The product of claim 20 , wherein the operations comprise dynamically updating said second power level based on a cellular channel noise.

22. The product of claim 21 , wherein the operations comprise determining a first cellular channel noise level of said cellular radio based on said first power level, and a second cellular channel noise level of said cellular radio based on one or more cellular channel parameters, and updating said second power level, based on said first and second cellular channel noise levels.

23. The product of claim 18 , wherein said cellular radio is to communicate over a first frequency during said cellular downlink period, and said BT discovery packet is to be transmitted over a second frequency, the operations comprising selecting to restrict said transmission power of said BT discovery packet based on a comparison between said first and second frequencies.

24. The product of claim 18 , wherein the operations comprise controlling said transmission power of said BT radio according to said first power level during a cellular uplink period.

Assignees

• Intel Corp

Inventors

• Bi Dongsheng
• Dor Keren
• Jakoby Assi
• Shahar Itzik
• Jechoux Bruno
• Persson Lars

Classifications

• H04W52/241 Primary

  taking into account channel quality metrics, e.g. SIR, SNR, CIR or Eb/lo · CPC title

• H04W4/008

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04W52/243

  taking into account interferences · CPC title

• H04W52/322 Primary

  Power control of broadcast channels · CPC title

• H04W4/80

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