AT&T Intellectual Property I, LP

At&t Mobility II LLC

Nec America, Inc.

Wesley B Neibaur

Craig Lee

Rick McConney

Thomas Schleef

David Gordon Marten

Matthew Cook

William Francis Bradee

Steve Martin

Lyle J Hedlund

Etsuro Kawasako

Ida A Gutierrez

Troy V Frandsen

Erik E Anderson

Raymond D Heistand, Ii

Errol M Tazbaz

A radio tag comprising a first radio and a second radio and a method for providing a communications service are disclosed. For example, the method comprises entering, by a processor of the radio tag, an active state of the radio tag and activating the second radio when a wake-up signal is received, where the second radio draws power from a power source, transmitting, by the processor of the radio tag, data to a device or receiving the data from the device when the radio tag is in the active state, and deactivating, by the processor of the radio tag, the second radio and entering an idle state when the wake-up signal is no longer being received, where only the first radio draws power from the power source for listening for the wake-up signal in the idle state.

Method and apparatus for providing a communications service using a low powered radio tag

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Flower Mound, TX, United States of America

Wesley B Neibaur