Patent ID: 9468036
Filing Date: 2016-10-11
CPC Classification: H04W

Claim Text:
1. A method of wireless communication, the method comprising: transmitting voice frames corresponding to a circuit-switched voice call during a predetermined portion of a transmission time interval (TTI) that is less than an entirety of the TTI; suspending the transmitting of voice frames during a remainder of the TTI following the predetermined portion of the TTI to enable discontinuous transmission (DTX) during the circuit-switched voice call; and changing between a DTX configuration comprising the transmitting the voice frames during the predetermined portion of the TTI and suspending the transmitting the voice frames during the remainder of the TTI, and a non-DTX configuration comprising transmitting the voice frames during the entirety of the TTI, wherein the non-DTX configuration is selected if a transmitter power headroom is less than a threshold, and wherein the DTX configuration is selected if the transmitter power headroom is greater than the threshold.