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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 19, 2019
Filed:
Mar. 15, 2017
Synology Incorporated, Taipei, TW;
SYNOLOGY INCORPORATED, Taipei, Taiwan, CN;
Abstract
A method for performing wake-up management and an associated apparatus are provided, where the method is applied to at least one portion of a network system, and the network system includes a local area network (LAN). The method includes: utilizing a wake-on-LAN (WOL) agent device to receive device information of a network device, where the WOL agent device and the network device are positioned in the LAN, and the network device broadcasts the device information according to a predetermined communications protocol; utilizing the WOL agent device to update a wake-up management list in the WOL agent device according to the device information, where the wake-up management list includes the device information; and utilizing the WOL agent device to perform a WOL operation on the network device according to the wake-up management list.