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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 21, 2020
Filed:
Aug. 18, 2017
Blackberry Limited, Waterloo, CA;
Mahendra Fuleshwar Prasad, Waterloo, CA;
Michael Peter Montemurro, Toronto, CA;
Stephen McCann, Southampton, GB;
Jesse William Bennett, Apex, NC (US);
Scott Leonard Dill, Paris, CA;
James Randolph Winter Lepp, Ottawa, CA;
BlackBerry Limited, Waterloo, Ontario, CA;
Abstract
A method at a sensor module within a sensor system for communicating with a gateway, the method including storing a timing profile for communications with the gateway; waking a radio core of the sensor module at a threshold time prior to a beacon signal being expected from the gateway; sampling a channel for the beacon signal at the radio core; if the beacon signal is detected: waking a processor on the sensor module; exchanging communication with the gateway; and powering down the processor and radio core upon completion of the exchanging communication.