Patent ID: 8644241
Filing Date: 2014-02-04
Classification: H04W,Y02D

Abstract:
1. A method, comprising: in a mobile communication terminal, sending, using a protocol stack, a message in which the terminal indicates to a base station a fill level of a buffer holding data that is pending for transmission to the base station; intercepting the message by a prediction module in the terminal that is separate and different from the protocol stack, and predicting, based on the intercepted message, a future processing power that will be required by processing circuitry in the terminal for transmitting the data to the base station; setting an operating point of the processing circuitry corresponding to the predicted future processing power, by configuring at least one parameter selected from among a supply voltage and a clock frequency of the processing circuitry; and operating the processing circuitry at the set operating point to process the data pending in the buffer.