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Apple patents phone power saving that limits wireless speed

Patent drawing from the official filing.

This filing describes a method where a phone tells its cell tower it is switching to a low-power mode. It then limits the complex wireless calculations it performs, using a smaller set of processing tools to save battery.

Why it mattersIt offers a specific technical way for phones to conserve battery by simplifying their connection to the network.

In the filing’s own words

A user equipment (UE) has a full set of baseband processing capabilities when in a normal power mode. The UE transmits, to a base station, a reduced set of baseband processing capabilities for a low power mode, wherein the reduced set of baseband processing capabilities is a smaller subset of the full set of baseband processing capabilities, enters the low power mode and performs operations in the low power mode using the reduced set of baseband processing capabilities.

What exactly they claim (claim 1)

1. A method for wireless communications, the method comprising: at a user equipment (UE) having a full set of baseband processing capabilities when in a normal power mode: transmitting, to a base station, a reduced set of baseband processing capabilities for a low power mode, wherein the reduced set of baseband processing capabilities is a smaller subset of the full set of baseband processing capabilities; entering the low power mode; and performing operations in the low power mode using the reduced set of baseband processing capabilities.

Facts

Company: Apple (Apple Inc.)
Official title: Automatic Reducing of User Equipment Capabilities in Power Saving Mode
Publication number: US20260323523A1
Application number: 19484549
Filed: May 16, 2023
Published: Oct 15, 2026
Inventors: 8
Claims: 23

Classified under

H04W 52/0251 Electricity & electronics

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Summaries are simplified from the filing’s own abstract and first claim. A patent filing is not a product announcement.
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