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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 20, 2012
Filed:
Apr. 19, 2007
William M. Shvodian, McLean, VA (US);
Joel Z. Apisdorf, Reston, VA (US);
Matthew L. Welborn, Vienna, VA (US);
William M. Shvodian, McLean, VA (US);
Joel Z. Apisdorf, Reston, VA (US);
Matthew L. Welborn, Vienna, VA (US);
Freescale Semiconductor, Inc., Austin, TX (US);
Abstract
A method () is provided of operating a local transceiver (), comprising: setting the local transceiver into an operational mode; operating the local transceiver in a polling mode (); receiving a quiescent begin indicator identifying a beginning of a quiescent mode (); setting a portion of the local transceiver into a low power consumption mode in response to the quiescent begin indicator (); measuring an elapsed time since receiving the quiescent begin indicator as a quiescent time (); and returning the portion of the local transceiver to the operational mode based on a quiescent end indicator).