US 12,108,327 B2
Dual-mode electronic device
Dan Jiang, Westford, MA (US); Paul Gruijters, Eindhoven (NL); Dong Han, Newton, MA (US); Jin Yu, Lexington, MA (US); and Yuting Zhang, Winchester, MA (US)
Assigned to SIGNIFY HOLDING, B.V., Eindhoven (NL)
Appl. No. 16/960,142
Filed by SIGNIFY HOLDING B.V., Eindhoven (NL)
PCT Filed Jan. 4, 2019, PCT No. PCT/EP2019/050137
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Jul. 6, 2020,
PCT Pub. No. WO2019/137850, PCT Pub. Date Jul. 18, 2019.
Claims priority of application No. 18154016 (EP), filed on Jan. 30, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2021/0076322 A1, Mar. 11, 2021
Int. Cl. H04W 52/02 (2009.01); H04W 56/00 (2009.01); H04W 88/06 (2009.01)
CPC H04W 52/0206 (2013.01) [H04W 52/028 (2013.01); H04W 56/00 (2013.01); H04W 88/06 (2013.01)] 14 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An electronic device comprising:
a transceiver adapted to be switchable between:
a long-range mode in which the transceiver communicates with at least one external device using a long-range wireless communication technology, wherein the long-range wireless communication technology includes two or more power saving modes, wherein the two or more power saving modes are discontinuous reception (DRX), enhanced Discontinuous Reception (eDRX) and a sleep mode where the transceiver is in an off state while maintaining an attached state with the at least one external device; and
a short-range mode in which the transceiver communicates with at least one neighboring electronic device using a short-range wireless communication technology;
a detection module adapted to determine if the long-range wireless communication technology is in a power saving mode and determine which power saving mode is active by (1) obtaining/using metadata or history data of communication between the external device and the electronic device, (2) the type of long-range wireless communication technology or (3) a configuration parameter indicating the power saving mode profile it is supposed to use; and
a switching unit adapted to switch the transceiver between the short-range mode and the long-range mode based on the determined power saving mode of the long-range wireless communication technology to reduce latency of the long-range mode.