Patent ID: 8477741
Filing Date: 2013-07-02
Classification: H04W,Y02D

Abstract:
1. A method for coordinating communications between a user equipment and a base station, comprising: receiving an assignment of a first set of timeslots for at least one of uplink and downlink communications between the user equipment and the base station; determining, at the user equipment, a usage metric defining a threshold for a communication activity between the user equipment and the base station; after detecting, at the user equipment, that the communication activity between the user equipment and the base station has reached the threshold, reducing, at the user equipment and without an input from the base station, a number of timeslots monitored by the user equipment to a second set of timeslots having fewer timeslots than the first set of timeslots for communications; and after reducing the number of timeslots monitored by the user equipment to the second set of timeslots: