METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR REDUCING THE POWER CONSUMPTION OF A BATTERY OPERATED TRANSCEIVER

摘要

In a method and an apparatus for reducing the power consumption of a battery operated transceiver in standby mode, particularly a mobile telephone station, wherein the receiver (1) of the transceiver is adapted to receive successive word blocks on a forward control channel, each word block consisting of a predetermined number of bits forming a dotting sequence, a word synchronization sequence and a predetermined number of word repeats, a switching means (6) is adapted to switch off the receiver (1) after that a word repeat in a word block has been validly received, and to switch on the receiver (1) to receive a word repeat in the next successive word block.