Reduced-power transmitting from a communications device
IPC분류정보
국가/구분
United States(US) Patent
등록
국제특허분류(IPC7판)
H04W-052/04
H04W-052/36
H04W-052/38
출원번호
US-0798682
(2013-03-13)
등록번호
US-9491706
(2016-11-08)
발명자
/ 주소
Thorson, Dean E.
Hauswirth, Steve R.
Krenz, Eric L.
Moller, Paul J.
출원인 / 주소
Google Technology Holdings LLC
대리인 / 주소
Wolfe-SBMC
인용정보
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3인용 특허 :
69
초록▼
Aspects of the present disclosure teach decreasing, in a time-averaged regime, the amount of RF energy emitted by a communications device. Generally speaking, the network tells the communications device what power level it should transmit at. If, however, the device determines that it would exceed a
Aspects of the present disclosure teach decreasing, in a time-averaged regime, the amount of RF energy emitted by a communications device. Generally speaking, the network tells the communications device what power level it should transmit at. If, however, the device determines that it would exceed an emission standard by transmitting at the specified power level for as long as it needs to in order to carry out its transmission duties, then the device can instead decide to transmit at a lower power level. Alternatively (or in combination), the device can, instead of transmitting all the time while it has data to send, only transmit intermittently. In either case, the emitted electromagnetic energy, as averaged over a period of time, is reduced below the maximum allowed by the standard. Later, if possible and necessary, the device can again transmit at a higher power level or more frequently.
대표청구항▼
1. A method for transmitting from a communications device, the method comprising: determining, by the communications device, a specific absorption rate (SAR) allowance comprising an amount of radio frequency (RF) energy that is allowed to be received by a user of the communications device within a t
1. A method for transmitting from a communications device, the method comprising: determining, by the communications device, a specific absorption rate (SAR) allowance comprising an amount of radio frequency (RF) energy that is allowed to be received by a user of the communications device within a time frame;calculating, by the communications device, a current amount of RF energy (RFe) received by the user, the RFe comprising an integral of transmission power level over a time;calculating, by the communications device, a percentage of the SAR allowance that the RFe comprises;responsive to the percentage being above a first threshold that is less than the SAR allowance: determining a first diminished transmission power level, by the communications device, based on the first threshold; andtransmitting, by the communications device, at the first diminished transmission power level; andresponsive to the percentage being above a second threshold that is less than the SAR allowance but greater than the first threshold: determining, by the communications device, a second diminished transmission power level that is less than the first diminished transmission power level based on the second threshold; andtransmitting, by the communications device, at the second diminished transmission power. 2. The method of claim 1, wherein the communications device receives, from a network to which the communications device will be transmitting, an RF transmission power level at which to initially transmit RF energy to the network. 3. The method of claim 2, wherein the first and second diminished transmission power levels are further based on the RF transmission power received by the network. 4. The method of claim 1, wherein the first and second diminished transmission power levels are further based on a transmission schedule, the transmission schedule defining the diminished transmission power level for a plurality of percentages. 5. The method of claim 1, wherein the first threshold is 50% of the SAR allowance. 6. The method of claim 1, wherein the transmission power level is zero when the device is not transmitting, the zero value is effective to lower the time averaged transmission power level for the RFe calculation. 7. The method of claim 1, wherein the transmission power level is a function of a distance between the device and the user. 8. The method of claim 1, wherein the first and second diminished transmission power levels are random. 9. The method of claim 1, further comprising withholding data to transmit until the percentage drops below an allowable level. 10. The method of claim 1, wherein the SAR allowance is determined based upon input from the user. 11. The method of claim 1 further comprising: predicting future transmission requirements, andwherein the first and second diminished transmission power levels are further based on the predicted future transmission requirements. 12. A communications device, the communications device comprising: one or more processors;a communications interface;one or more computer-readable storage media comprising instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the communications device to perform operations comprising: determining a specific absorption rate (SAR) allowance comprising an amount of radio frequency (RF) energy that is allowed to be received by a user of the communications device within a time frame;calculating a current amount of RF energy (RFe) received by the user, the RFe comprising an integral of transmission power level over a time;calculating a percentage of the SAR allowance that the RFe comprises;responsive to the percentage being above a first threshold that is less than the SAR allowance: determining a first diminished transmission power level based on the first threshold; andtransmitting at the first diminished transmission power level via the communications interface; andresponsive to the percentage being above a second threshold that is less than the SAR allowance but greater than the first threshold: determining a second diminished transmission power level that is less than the first diminished transmission power based on the second threshold; andtransmitting at the second diminished transmission power level. 13. The communications device of claim 12, wherein operations further comprise delaying a transmission of data until the percentage drops below an allowable level. 14. The communications device of claim 12, wherein the operations further comprise receiving, from a network to which the communications device will be transmitting, an RF transmission power level value at which to initially transmit RF energy to the network and the first and second diminished transmission power levels are further based on the RF transmission power level value received by the network. 15. The communications device of claim 12, wherein the first and second diminished transmission power levels are further based on a transmission schedule, the transmission schedule defining other diminished transmission power levels for a plurality of other thresholds. 16. The communications device of claim 12, wherein the transmission power level is a function of a distance between the device and the user. 17. One or more non-transitory computer-readable storage media comprising instructions, that, when executed by one or more processors, reduce an amount of radio frequency (RF) energy absorbed by a user of a communications device by: calculating a percentage of a specific absorption rate (SAR) allowance that a current amount of RF energy (RFe) received by the user comprises, the SAR allowance comprising an amount of radio frequency (RF) energy that is allowed to be received by the user of the communications device within a time frame, the RFe comprising a an integral of transmission power level for a time;responsive to the percentage being above a first threshold that is less than the SAR allowance, transmitting at a first diminished transmission power level determined by the first threshold effective to lower the RFe; andresponsive to the percentage being above a second threshold that is higher than the first threshold but less than the SAR allowance, transmitting at a second diminished transmission power level determined by the second threshold effective to further lower the RFe. 18. The computer-readable storage media of claim 17, wherein the first and second diminished transmission power levels are determined according to a transmission power level schedule, the transmission power level schedule defining the diminished transmission power level for a plurality of percentages between the threshold and the SAR allowance. 19. The computer-readable storage media of claim 17, wherein the first and second diminished transmission power levels are further determined based on an initial transmission power level received from a network to which the communications device will be transmitting. 20. The computer-readable storage media of claim 17, wherein the transmission power level is dependent on a distance between the user and the communications device.
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