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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 01, 1998
Filed:
May. 17, 1996
Robert M McKaughan, Bellevue, WA (US);
Forrest Foltz, Woodinville, WA (US);
Rajasekhar Abburi, Bellevue, WA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
In a computer network including a plurality of interconnected computers, one of the computers being a sleeping computer in a power down state, the sleeping computer having a list of packets to listen for stored on a network interface card associated with the sleeping computer, a method of waking the sleeping computer from the computer network. An incoming packet of information is transmitted from one of the computers in the network to the sleeping computer. When the network interface card of the sleeping computer detects the incoming packet, it compares the incoming packet to the list of packets stored on the network interface card. If the incoming packet matches one of the packets in the list of packets stored on the network interface card, or if the incoming packet is directly addressed to the sleeping computer, then a signal is issued to wake the sleeping computer. Otherwise, the incoming packet is discarded and the sleeping computer is not awaken.