US 12,328,685 B2
Selective direct increase of transmit power level of a wireless communication device to a maximum power level based on detected activity mode or received signal quality
Qi Jiang, Mountain View, CA (US); Xuemei Ouyang, Mountain View, CA (US); Sriram Sundararajan, Mountain View, CA (US); Srenik Mehta, Fremont, CA (US); Omar El Ayach, Mountain View, CA (US); Nihar Jindal, Mountain View, CA (US); and Daniel Barros, Mountain View, CA (US)
Assigned to GOOGLE LLC, Mountain View, CA (US)
Appl. No. 17/784,701
Filed by GOOGLE LLC, Mountain View, CA (US)
PCT Filed Dec. 9, 2020, PCT No. PCT/US2020/063982
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Jun. 13, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/133551, PCT Pub. Date Jul. 1, 2021.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/953,303, filed on Dec. 24, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2023/0025342 A1, Jan. 26, 2023
Int. Cl. H04W 52/36 (2009.01); H04W 52/24 (2009.01); H04W 52/28 (2009.01); H04W 76/10 (2018.01)
CPC H04W 52/367 (2013.01) [H04W 52/245 (2013.01); H04W 52/28 (2013.01); H04W 76/10 (2018.02)] 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method performed at a communication device, comprising:
establishing, via a wireless interface, a connection with a remote device based on a short-range wireless communication protocol;
controlling, by a processor, the wireless interface to transmit signals for receipt by the remote device, the signals comprising information configured according to a media format;
determining, by the processor, at least one activity mode based on sensor data from one or more sensors of at least one of the communication device or the remote device;
during transmission of the signals, controlling, by the processor, the wireless interface to directly increase a transmit power level for the signals to a specified maximum transmit power level without incremental increases based on the determined activity mode; and
in response to directly increasing the transmit power level of the wireless interface to the specified maximum transmit power level, ignoring, by the processor, a request from the remote device to decrease the transmit power level.