Patent ID: 9369964
Filing Date: 2016-06-14
CPC Classification: H04W,Y02D

Claim Text:
1. A method comprising: determining, by a mobile device, a target power usage associated with a radio of the mobile device, the radio implementing a radio link with a base station associated with a cellular wireless network; determining, by the mobile device, an actual power usage associated with the radio of the mobile device; determining an actual value for a power headroom report that indicates how much transmission power is available for the mobile device to use in addition to transmission power currently being used by the mobile device; determining a diluted version of the actual value of the power headroom report based on the actual value for the power headroom report, the target power usage associated with the radio, and the actual power usage associated with the radio, the diluted version of the actual value of the power headroom report being calculated based on: communicating, by the mobile device, with the base station, to transmit the diluted version of the value of the power headroom report to the base station instead of the actual value for the power headroom report, wherein the communication causes the base station to reduce a bit rate associated with the radio link.