US 11,871,347 B2
Control indicator for power saving in a mobile wireless communication device
Yuchul Kim, Santa Clara, CA (US); Wei Zeng, San Diego, CA (US); and Dawei Zhang, Saratoga, CA (US)
Assigned to Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US)
Filed by Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US)
Filed on Apr. 11, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/718,132.
Application 17/718,132 is a continuation of application No. 16/594,401, filed on Oct. 7, 2019, granted, now 11,304,138.
Application 16/594,401 is a continuation of application No. 15/892,859, filed on Feb. 9, 2018, granted, now 10,477,475, issued on Nov. 12, 2019.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/475,683, filed on Mar. 23, 2017.
Prior Publication US 2022/0240185 A1, Jul. 28, 2022
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. H04W 52/02 (2009.01); H04W 72/0446 (2023.01); H04W 4/08 (2009.01); H04L 5/00 (2006.01); H04W 72/23 (2023.01); H04W 72/04 (2023.01)
CPC H04W 52/0229 (2013.01) [H04L 5/0053 (2013.01); H04W 4/08 (2013.01); H04W 52/0216 (2013.01); H04W 72/0446 (2013.01); H04W 72/23 (2023.01); H04L 5/0007 (2013.01); H04L 5/0091 (2013.01); Y02D 30/70 (2020.08)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An apparatus comprising:
a processor configured to enable a wireless device to:
receive, in a first slot, control indicator information indicating whether or not the wireless device is to perform blind decoding of one or more candidate physical control channels within a specified number of subsequent slots beginning at a designated slot after the first slot;
perform the blind decoding of the one or more candidate physical control channels within the specified number of subsequent slots if the control indicator information indicates the wireless device is to perform the blind decoding; and
do not perform the blind decoding of the one or more candidate physical control channels within the specified number of subsequent slots if the control indicator information indicates that the wireless device is not to perform the blind decoding.