Patent ID: 8149746

Claim:
An apparatus comprising: a control block configured to obtain a battery level for at least one battery of a device hosting the apparatus; a transmit block operatively coupled to the control block and configured to transmit information relating to the battery level to a base station of a network comprising a plurality of base stations and with which the device is communicatively associated; and a receive block operatively coupled to the control block and configured to receive, from the base station, one or more power threshold levels to provide the control block a basis for a battery-level feedback event, the one or more power threshold levels having been selected by the base station based at least in part on a load of the network, and to receive information relating to at least one operation parameter configuration for the device, the at least one operation parameter configuration being based at least in part on the transmitted information relating to the battery level, wherein the at least one operation parameter configuration comprises a selection of an antenna scheme that is a single antenna scheme instead of a multiple antenna scheme; wherein the control block is configured to configure operation parameters of the device based at least in part on the at least one operation parameter configuration.