Patent ID: 8917733

Claim:
A modem device operable in an access terminal, comprising: a wireless communication interface; a memory device adapted to implement a wireless wide area network (WWAN) protocol stack for the wireless communication interface; and a processing circuit communicatively coupled to the wireless communication interface and the memory device, the processing circuit adapted to: monitor wireless wide area network (WWAN) protocol information from the wireless wide area network (WWAN) protocol stack; determine whether to adjust at least one hardware operating parameter provided to the processing circuit based on the monitored wireless wide area network (WWAN) protocol information, including predicting whether to adjust the at least one hardware operating parameter provided to the processing circuit in anticipation of an increase in use of processing circuit resources; and adjust the at least one hardware operating parameter provided to the processing circuit in response to the monitored wireless wide area network (WWAN) protocol information to control the physical operation of the processing circuit.