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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 10, 2015
Filed:
Mar. 17, 2014
Marvell International Ltd., Hamilton, BM;
Long Chow, Saratoga, CA (US);
James Kang-Wuu Jan, San Jose, CA (US);
Robert Lee, Fremont, CA (US);
Chen Fan, Cupertino, CA (US);
Xiaohua Luo, San Jose, CA (US);
Frank Huang, Dublin, CA (US);
MARVELL INTERNATIONAL LTD., Hamilton, BM;
Abstract
In a method and apparatus for providing memory efficient filtering of a received broadcast signal, a wireless device assembly compares a filter expression to packet data in the broadcast signal to determine whether the packet data contains a particular bit pattern indicated by the filter expression. The wireless device assembly is able to perform such filtering with an associated host assembly in a sleep mode or with that host in an active mode. If the host assembly is in a sleep mode, and if the packet data contains the particular bit pattern indicated by the filter expression, the wireless device assembly communicates a wakeup signal to the host assembly for changing the host assembly from the sleep mode to an active mode. On the other hand, if the packet data does not contain the particular bit pattern indicated by the filter expression, the wireless device assembly does not communicate the wakeup signal to the host assembly.