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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 31, 2013
Filed:
Oct. 02, 2008
Fabio Sebastiano, Eindhoven, NL;
Salvatore Drago, Eindhoven, NL;
Lucien Johannes Breems, Eindhoven, NL;
Dominicus Martinues Wilhelmus Leenaerts, Riethoven, NL;
Fabio Sebastiano, Eindhoven, NL;
Salvatore Drago, Eindhoven, NL;
Lucien Johannes Breems, Eindhoven, NL;
Dominicus Martinues Wilhelmus Leenaerts, Riethoven, NL;
NXP, B.V., Eindhoven, NL;
Abstract
Communication networks are implemented using a variety of devices and methods. In a particular embodiment for use in a communication network having RF-communication devices that communicate using a RF protocol, an RF-communication device is implemented with an RF transceiver () to communicate over the network using the RF protocol and being controllable in a reduced power-consumption mode in which the RF transceiver does not communicate over the network. The device also includes an RF receiver () including an envelope detector () and a pulse generator circuit (). The envelope detector circuit () providing an envelope-based signal to a pulse generator circuit () that, in response to the envelope-based signal and after generating a number of pulses that exceeds a predetermined number of pulses, prompts the RF transceiver () to transition out of the reduced power-consumption mode.