- Patent Title: Method and apparatus for collaborative paging information reception
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Application No.: US15370065Application Date: 2016-12-06
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Publication No.: US10334531B1Publication Date: 2019-06-25
- Inventor: Sivakumar Govindassamy
- Applicant: MBIT WIRELESS, INC.
- Applicant Address: US CA Irvine
- Assignee: MBIT WIRELESS, INC.
- Current Assignee: MBIT WIRELESS, INC.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Irvine
- Agency: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik, LLP
- Main IPC: H04W52/02
- IPC: H04W52/02 ; H04W76/10 ; H04W4/80 ; H04W88/16

Abstract:
As the variety and number of wireless client devices have increased, often there may be multiple client devices in close proximity of each other. In addition to the connectivity to the wireless wide area network (WWAN), the client devices may have short range link to directly connect with each other. Two or more client devices in a given area may be camped on the same cell of the same WWAN, and the client devices may be decoding the paging information from the same cell. A method and apparatus are disclosed such that a client device may decode the paging information from the WWAN and relay the WWAN paging information to other client devices over the short range link. This may enable other client devices to avoid having to decode the paging information directly from the WWAN which may reduce their power consumption.
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