Power management for vehicle-mounted base station

US11233672B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Parallel Wireless, Inc. · US

Inventors

• Randy Rutherford · Bedford, US
• Rajesh Kumar Mishra · Needham, US
• David Johnston · Beaverton, US
• Yang Cao · Niskayuna, US
• Louis Paquette · Fitchburg, US
• Robert Sullivan · Dunstable, US
• Michael Yasuhiro Saji · Brookline, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Oct 9, 2018
• Grant date: Jan 25, 2022
• Expiry date: Oct 9, 2038

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y02T90/16
• WIPO field: Transport
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

A base station for providing dynamic power management is disclosed, comprising, a processor within an enclosure mounted in a vehicle, a power management unit coupled to the processor, a controller area network (CAN) bus monitoring system coupled to the power management unit and to a CAN bus of the vehicle, a voltage measurement module also coupled to the power management unit and to a battery of the vehicle; a baseband processor coupled to the processor, a first wireless access functionality coupled to the baseband processor, and a second wireless access functionality coupled to the baseband processor, wherein the power management unit is coupled to each of the first and the second wireless access functionality to enable access radio bringup, access radio shutdown, and graceful user detach based on a power state at the power management unit.