Electrical computers and digital processing systems: support – Computer power control
Reexamination Certificate
2003-01-31
2008-03-04
Elamin, A. (Department: 2116)
Electrical computers and digital processing systems: support
Computer power control
C713S320000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07340615
ABSTRACT:
A method and system for managing power consumption in a portable computing device having a network interface module is presented. A power management module receives inputs from other modules and determines when the network interface module is to be put in a doze state for a predetermined number of beacon intervals to conserve power consumption in the network interface module. The network interface module in a device that is associated with a network is put in the doze state after an event has occurred including when a scan has been performed, after a delayed sleep timer has expired, and after a beacon transmission has been completed and no traffic is buffered for the device. The delayed sleep time is set based on the estimated round trip time of a packet.
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Abhishek Abhishek
Ayyagari Arun
Barkley Warren V.
Geiger Avi R.
Krantz Anton W.
Chen Tse
Elamin A.
Microsoft Corporation
Wolf Greenfield & Sacks P.C.
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