Patent ID: 8385465

Claim:
A method comprising: (a) initiating, with a processor of a mobile communication device, a power gain change of a first integrated circuit of a transmit chain of the mobile communication device, across a serial bus, before an inter-symbol time between adjacent transmittal symbols such that the power gain change of the first integrated circuit occurs substantially during the inter-symbol time; and (b) initiating, with the processor, a power gain change of a second integrated circuit of the transmit chain across the serial bus during the inter-symbol time such that the power gain change of the second integrated circuit occurs substantially during the inter-symbol time wherein the initiating of the power gain change of (a) occurs during a data communication portion of a first symbol, wherein the inter-symbol time separates the data communication portion of the first symbol and a data communication portion of a second symbol, wherein the power gain change of the transmittal symbols is a power gain change from the first symbol to the second symbol, and wherein the initiating of the power gain change of (b) occurs during the inter-symbol time.