18476287. MANAGING ENERGY CONSUMPTION IN A TRAFFIC-AWARE MANNER (AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.)
MANAGING ENERGY CONSUMPTION IN A TRAFFIC-AWARE MANNER
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AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
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MANAGING ENERGY CONSUMPTION IN A TRAFFIC-AWARE MANNER
This abstract first appeared for US patent application 18476287 titled 'MANAGING ENERGY CONSUMPTION IN A TRAFFIC-AWARE MANNER
Original Abstract Submitted
A method for managing energy consumption in a traffic-aware manner includes monitoring a level of network traffic in a wireless network to which a plurality of user devices is connected, detecting, based on the monitoring, that a current level of traffic in the wireless network has exceeded a predefined threshold level of traffic, selecting, in response to the detecting, a subset of the plurality of user devices to put into an energy saving mode, and sending, to each user device in the subset, a signaling message, where the signaling message instructs the each user device to mute, for a defined number of symbols, at least one of: a transmit capability of the each user device or a receive capability of the each user device.