Patent ID: 9369924
Filing Date: 2016-06-14
CPC Classification: H04L,H04W

Claim Text:
1. A method for a mobile device having a radio frequency (RF) receiver for wireless communications, the method comprising: identifying, by the mobile device, when a packet data burst being communicated to the mobile device over a packet data channel of a serving cell and a broadcast data burst being communicated to the mobile device over a broadcast control channel of a neighbor cell are to be overlapped in time; upon said identifying: setting the RF receiver to receive the packet data burst instead of the broadcast data burst based on identifying that the neighbor cell is not a candidate for an upcoming handoff; and setting the RF transceiver to receive an initial portion of the packet data burst by reducing a number of slots to be received and cancel an uplink packet data burst that would overlap in time to the broadcast data burst in response to identifying that the neighbor cell is a candidate for an upcoming handoff and that a call drop between the mobile device and the serving cell is imminent.