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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
May. 22, 2012

Filed:

Jun. 01, 2009
Applicants:

James Beninghaus, Campbell, CA (US);

William Ngo, Fremont, CA (US);

Welly Kasten, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Neil Hendin, Mountain View, CA (US);

Inventors:

James Beninghaus, Campbell, CA (US);

William Ngo, Fremont, CA (US);

Welly Kasten, Sunnyvale, CA (US);

Neil Hendin, Mountain View, CA (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/16 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

A mobile computing device is described that includes one or more wireless transceivers, a data traffic monitor module operative to monitor one or more wireless communications parameters, and a power management module operative to select a power mode for the mobile computing device based on the one or more wireless communications parameters. In various embodiments, the power mode comprises an extended power save mode wherein the one or more wireless transceivers are disabled during a plurality of consecutive wireless beacon events. Other embodiments are described and claimed.


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