Patent ID: 7802259
Filing Date: 2010-09-21
Classification: H04W,Y02D

Abstract:
1. A method for switching between instruction contexts in a multi-mode wireless broadband processing system, the method comprising: receiving instructions at the multi-mode wireless broadband processing system, wherein each time interval comprises a duration between two received instructions; executing critical task operations in the multi-mode wireless broadband processing system, each critical task operation executing within a time interval; executing non-critical task operations in the multi-mode wireless broadband processing system, execution of each non-critical task operation being able to cross a time interval boundary, wherein non-critical task operations are not begun in a given time interval until execution of any critical task operations has completed for the given time interval; and for each time interval, entering a sleep mode in which no critical task operations or non-critical task operations are executed until a following time interval begins if any critical task operations and any non-critical task operations begun in the time interval have completed before the following time interval begins.