Intel Corporation

Moshe Noah

Avishay Sharaga

Eran Friedlander

Avital Shlomo

Jubran Ghanadry

Jonathan Livni

A wireless internet card to support enhancing power efficiency. The wireless internet comprises a front end comprising shared frequency resources. The wireless internet card also comprises a first wireless block and a second wireless block. While the first wireless block is in low-power mode, the second wireless block may get access to the shared radio frequency resources without waking-up the first wireless block thus enhancing the power efficiency. The second wireless block sends a request to the first wireless block to use shared radio frequency resources. A coexistence block coupled to the second wireless block and the first wireless block may wait for a time duration to elapse after the request is received and may allow the second wireless block to use the shared radio frequency resources if the time duration is elapsed.

Enhancing power efficiency in a wireless internet card

An embodiment of the present invention provides an apparatus, comprising a network adapter configured for wireless communication using more than one technology, wherein the network adapter is configured to share a plurality of shared hardware (HW) components by generating a notification when a shared HW resource becomes available to a requesting device that needs the HW resource, and registering the requesting device so that it will receive the notifications when generated; and wherein upon receiving the notifications, the requesting device will wake up and perform a pending action.

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Yokneam, Israel

Moshe Noah