IP Library Granted Patent US 12,323,353
Granted Patent B2
US 12,323,353 · App. 17/988,923 · Granted Jun 3, 2025

Method for controlling radio frequency front-end device and user equipment

Inventor: Wei Yi (Guangdong, CN)
Assignee: VIVO MOBILE COMMUNICATION CO., LTD.
H04L5/0048H04W72/0453
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Patent No.
US 12,323,353
App. No.
17/988,923
Granted
Jun 3, 2025
Kind
B2
Abstract

The present application relates to the field of communications technologies, and provides a method for controlling a radio frequency front-end device and user equipment, where the user equipment includes a processor and the radio frequency front-end device, and the method includes: receiving, by the radio frequency front-end device, a switch control instruction from the processor, where the switch control instruction is an instruction sent by the processor to the radio frequency front-end device at a first moment; and performing, by the radio frequency front-end device, on-off switching in response to the switch control instruction.

Claims (34)

1. A method for controlling a radio frequency front-end device performed by user equipment, wherein the user equipment comprises a processor and the radio frequency front-end device, and the method comprises:

receiving, by the radio frequency front-end device, a switch control instruction from the processor, wherein the switch control instruction is an instruction sent by the processor to the radio frequency front-end device at a first moment; and

performing, by the radio frequency front-end device, on-off switching in response to the switch control instruction, wherein

the first moment is a moment before a first time interval in a target subframe, and the first time interval is used to send a sounding reference signal (SRS);

wherein the target subframe comprises M time-domain symbols, and the first time interval occupies N time-domain symbols in the M time-domain symbols;

the target subframe further comprises P time-domain symbols, and the P time-domain symbols are located before the first time interval; Q time-domain symbols are comprised in a time period between the first moment and a start moment of the first time interval, M, N, P, and Q are all positive integers, and M≥(N+P+Q); and

the user equipment further comprises a counter, the switch control instruction is an instruction that the processor sends to the radio frequency front-end device at the first moment after receiving a target message sent by the counter, and the target message is used to indicate that the counter starts counting at a start moment of the target subframe and competes counting of (P−Q) time domain symbols.

2. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the radio frequency front-end device comprises L types of devices, and L is a positive integer; and

the first moment is determined based on a target response duration, the target response duration is a longest response duration in L response durations, and the L response durations are durations respectively required for the L types of devices to perform the on-off switching.

3. A non-transitory readable storage medium, wherein the non-transitory readable storage medium stores a program or an Instruction, and the program or the instruction, when executed by a processor, causes user equipment to perform the following steps:

receiving, by a radio frequency front-end device, a switch control instruction from the processor, wherein the switch control instruction is an instruction sent by the processor to the radio frequency front-end device at a first moment; and

performing, by the radio frequency front-end device, on-off switching in response to the switch control instruction, wherein

the first moment is a moment before a first time interval in a target subframe, and the first time interval is used to send a sounding reference signal (SRS);

wherein the target subframe comprises M time-domain symbols, and the first time interval occupies N time-domain symbols in the M time-domain symbols;

the target subframe further comprises P time-domain symbols, and the P time-domain symbols are located before the first time interval; Q time-domain symbols are comprised in a time period between the first moment and a start moment of the first time Interval, M, N, P, and Q are all positive integers, and M≥(N+P+Q); and

the user equipment further comprises a counter, the switch control instruction is an instruction that the processor sends to the radio frequency front-end device at the first moment after receiving a target message sent by the counter, and the target message is used to indicate that the counter starts counting at a start moment of the target subframe and competes counting of (P−Q) time domain symbols.

4. The non-transitory readable storage medium according to claim 3 , wherein the radio frequency front-end device comprises L types of devices, and L is a positive integer; and

the first moment is determined based on a target response duration, the target response duration is a longest response duration in L response durations, and the L response durations are durations respectively required for the L types of devices to perform the on-off switching.

5. User equipment, comprising:

a processor; and

a memory storing a program or an instruction that is executable on the processor, wherein the program or the instruction, when executed by the processor, causes the user equipment to perform the following steps:

receiving, by a radio frequency front-end device, a switch control instruction from the processor, wherein the switch control instruction is an instruction sent by the processor to the radio frequency front-end device at a first moment; and

performing, by the radio frequency front-end device, on-off switching in response to the switch control instruction, wherein

the first moment is a moment before a first time interval in a target subframe, and the first time interval is used to send a sounding reference signal (SRS);

wherein the target subframe comprises M time-domain symbols, and the first time interval occupies N time-domain symbols in the M time-domain symbols;

the target subframe further comprises P time-domain symbols, and the P time-domain symbols are located before the first time interval; Q time-domain symbols are comprised in a time period between the first moment and a start moment of the first time interval, M, N, P, and Q are all positive integers, and M≥(N+P+Q); and

the user equipment further comprises a counter, the switch control instruction is an instruction that the processor sends to the radio frequency front-end device at the first moment after receiving a target message sent by the counter, and the target message is used to indicate that the counter starts counting at a start moment of the target subframe and competes counting of (P−Q) time domain symbols.

6. The user equipment according to claim 5 , wherein the radio frequency front-end device comprises L types of devices, and L is a positive integer; and the first moment is determined based on a target response duration, the target response duration is a longest response duration in L response durations, and the L response durations are durations respectively required for the L types of devices to perform the on-off switching.

7. The method according to claim 1 , wherein the receiving, by the radio frequency front-end device, the switch control instruction from the processor comprises: receiving, by the radio frequency front-end device, the switch control instruction from the processor at a second moment, wherein the second moment is within the first time interval.

8. The method according to claim 7 , wherein the second moment is the start moment of the first time interval.

9. The non-transitory readable storage medium according to claim 3 , wherein the receiving, by the radio frequency front-end device, the switch control instruction from the processor comprises: receiving, by the radio frequency front-end device, the switch control instruction from the processor at a second moment, wherein the second moment is within the first time interval.

10. The non-transitory readable storage medium according to claim 9 , wherein the second moment is the start moment of the first time interval.

11. The user equipment according to claim 5 , wherein the receiving, by the radio frequency front-end device, the switch control instruction from the processor comprises: receiving, by the radio frequency front-end device, the switch control instruction from the processor at a second moment, wherein the second moment is within the first time interval.

12. The user equipment according to claim 11 , wherein the second moment is the start moment of the first time interval.

Assignments (2)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Oct 30, 2025
From: VIVO MOBILE COMMUNICATION CO., LTD.
To: NOKIA TECHNOLOGIES OY
Reel/Frame 073133/0098 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Nov 17, 2022
From: YI, WEI
To: VIVO MOBILE COMMUNICATION CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 061808/0687 →
Priority Claims (1)
CN 202010465907.0 · May 28, 2020 · national
Continuity (2)
Continuation PCTCN2021095479 · May 24, 2021
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