Wireless Paging Receiver Segmentation for Battery Conservation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Wireless communication devices that use multiple protocols face challenges in efficiently monitoring paging channels across different protocols, leading to either interruptions in communications or battery life consumption due to the need for multiple transceivers.
Innovation Solution
A wireless communication device employs a separate paging receiver that monitors paging channels for non-selected protocols, allowing the transceiver to focus on the selected protocol, thereby reducing power consumption and maintaining continuous communication.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Device complexity
If a single transceiver is used to monitor multiple paging channels across different protocols, then device complexity is reduced, but communication interruptions occur when switching between protocols
Solution Approach 1:
The wireless device segments the transceiver functionality into two separate components: a main transceiver for primary protocol communication and a secondary paging receiver for monitoring paging channels of non-selected protocols. This segmentation allows simultaneous operation without interference, resolving the contradiction between reduced complexity and maintained communication continuity.
2Reliability
If multiple transceivers are used to monitor paging channels of multiple protocols simultaneously, then communication continuity is maintained, but battery life is quickly consumed
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies local quality by making the secondary paging receiver operate at lower power compared to a full transceiver. The paging receiver only needs to monitor paging channels rather than handle full bidirectional communication, allowing simultaneous monitoring of multiple protocols while conserving battery life through differentiated power consumption characteristics.
3Reliability
If the transceiver does not interrupt communications to monitor other paging channels, then communication continuity is maintained, but pages on other protocols are missed
Solution Approach 1:
The secondary paging receiver acts as an intermediary component that specifically monitors paging channels without interfering with the main transceiver's communication operations. This intermediary structure enables the device to receive paging information from multiple protocols simultaneously while maintaining uninterrupted communications on the selected protocol.
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AI summary
A wireless communication device receives a first user instruction to execute a first application requiring first wireless communications. The device selects a first wireless protocol for the first wireless communications based on the first application. A transceiver in the device exchanges the first wireless communications with a first wireless communication access node using the first wireless protocol and monitors a first paging channel of the first wireless protocol. A paging receiver monitors a second paging channel of a second wireless protocol in response to the application-based selection of the first wireless protocol.