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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 08, 2026
Filed:
Jul. 25, 2023
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Robert Edgar Barton, Richmond, CA;
Indermeet Singh Gandhi, San Jose, CA (US);
Jerome Henry, Pittsboro, NC (US);
Malcolm Muir Smith, Richardson, TX (US);
Cisco Technology, Inc., San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
Disclosed are systems, apparatuses, methods, computer readable medium, and circuits for transmitting, from an access point (AP), a multi-link device (MLD) grouping to a station device (STA); transmitting, from the AP, a policy to accept energy efficiency instructions that includes multi-link operation (MLO) in an energy conservation mode; transmitting, from the AP, instructions to reduce battery consumption by the station by limiting MLO operations and activating a single radio of a plurality of radios on the STA, wherein a remainder of the plurality of radios are inactive and powered off; determining, at the AP, that activity from the STA is increasing; and transmitting a wake-up message to one or more of the inactive radios on the STA.