Patent ID: 8301176
Filing Date: 2012-10-30
Classification: H04W,Y02D

Abstract:
1. A wireless user equipment device that receives a communication signal transmitted along a wireless channel, comprising: a sleep deactivator that periodically activates a wireless user equipment from a sleep mode at a wake-up time in advance of a time slot during which a message that is expected to be received; an extractive element, coupled to the sleep deactivator, that extracts the message in at least one of a plurality of intervals of the time slot; a signal quality assessor, coupled to the extractive element, that is configured to assess a quality of the message at at least one of the plurality of intervals and assign a quality metric score for each one of the plurality of intervals at which an assessment is made; and a message timing estimator, coupled to the signal quality assessor, that is configured to determine a message timing of the message based on a set of the assigned quality metric scores.