BANDWIDTH UTILIZATION DURING SILENCE FRAMES
Briefly, in accordance with one or more embodiments, an apparatus of a user equipment (UE) comprises one or more baseband processors to generate a voice call invite message for a remote UE, and a memory to store the voice call invite message. The voice call invite message includes a header p-use-silence-period to indicate that the UE is configured to transmit or receive non-voice data during a silence period of the voice call.
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31 . An apparatus of a user equipment (UE), comprising:
one or more baseband processors to generate a voice call invite message for a remote UE; and
a memory to store the voice call invite message;
wherein the voice call invite message includes a header p-use-silence-period to indicate that the UE is configured to transmit or receive non-voice data during a silence period of the voice call.
32 . The apparatus of claim 31 , further comprising a radio-frequency (RF) transceiver to transmit the voice call invite message to the remote UE via a core network.
33 . The apparatus of claim 31 , wherein the header indicates a type of non-voice data to be transmitted or received during a silence period.
34 . The apparatus of claim 31 , wherein the one or more baseband processor are to generate one or more non-voice data packets to be sent to the remote UE during a silence period of the UE.
35 . The apparatus of claim 31 , wherein the one or more baseband processors are to decode one or more non-voice data packets received from the remote UE during a silence period of the remote UE.
36 . The apparatus of claim 31 , wherein the one or more baseband processors are to generate a Silence Indicator Description (SID) frame to be sent from the UE to the remote UE prior to sending one or more non-voice data packets to the remote UE during a silence period of the UE.
37 . The apparatus of claim 31 , wherein the voice call comprises a Voice over Long Term Evolution (VoLTE) call.
38 . The apparatus of claim 31 , wherein the non-voice data comprises message data, location data, or time data, or a combination thereof.
39 . An apparatus of a user equipment (UE), comprising:
one or more baseband processors to decode a voice call invite message from a remote UE; and
a memory to store the call invite message;
wherein the call invite message includes a header p-use-silence-period to indicate that the UE is configured to transmit or receive non-voice data during a silence period of the voice call.
40 . The apparatus of claim 39 , further comprising a radio-frequency (RF) transceiver to receive the voice call invite message from the remote UE via a core network, and to transmit a 200 OK message to the remote UE via the core network in reply to the voice call invite message.
41 . The apparatus of claim 39 , wherein the header indicates a type of non-voice data to be transmitted or received during a silence period.
42 . The apparatus of claim 39 , wherein the one or more baseband processor are to generate one or more non-voice data packets to be sent to the remote UE during a silence period of the UE.
43 . The apparatus of claim 39 , wherein the one or more baseband processors are to decode one or more non-voice data packets received from the remote UE during a silence period of the remote UE.
44 . The apparatus of claim 39 , wherein the one or more baseband processors are to process a Silence Indicator Description (SID) frame received from the remote UE prior to receiving one or more non-voice data packets from the remote UE during a silence period of the remote UE.
45 . The apparatus of claim 39 , wherein the voice call comprises a Voice over Long Term Evolution (VoLTE) call.
46 . The apparatus of any of claim 39 , wherein the non-voice data comprises message data, location data, or time data, or a combination thereof.
47 . One or more non-transitory computer readable media having instructions stored thereon that, if executed by a user equipment (UE), result in:
generating a voice call invite message for a remote UE; and
storing the voice call invite message in a memory;
wherein the voice call invite message includes a header p-use-silence-period to indicate that the UE is configured to transmit or receive non-voice data during a silence period of the voice call.
48 . The one or more non-transitory computer readable media of claim 47 , wherein the header indicates a type of non-voice data to be transmitted or received during a silence period.
49 . The one or more non-transitory computer readable media of claim 47 , wherein the instructions, if executed, further result in generating one or more non-voice data packets to be sent to the remote UE during a silence period of the UE.
50 . The one or more non-transitory computer readable media of claim 47 , wherein the instructions, if executed, further result in decoding one or more non-voice data packets received from the remote UE during a silence period of the remote UE.
51 . The one or more non-transitory computer readable media of claim 47 , wherein the instructions, if executed, further result in generating a Silence Indicator Description (SID) frame to be sent from the UE to the remote UE prior to sending one or more non-voice data packets to the remote UE during a silence period of the UE.
52 . The one or more non-transitory computer readable media of claim 47 , wherein the voice call comprises a Voice over Long Term Evolution (VoLTE) call.
53 . The one or more non-transitory computer readable media of claim 47 , wherein the non-voice data comprises message data, location data, or time data, or a combination thereof.