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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 29, 2015
Filed:
Aug. 31, 2012
Simone Merlin, San Diego, CA (US);
Santosh Paul Abraham, San Diego, CA (US);
Rahul Dangui, San Diego, CA (US);
Hemanth Sampath, San Diego, CA (US);
Simone Merlin, San Diego, CA (US);
Santosh Paul Abraham, San Diego, CA (US);
Rahul Dangui, San Diego, CA (US);
Hemanth Sampath, San Diego, CA (US);
QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);
Abstract
One aspect of the disclosure provides a method for wireless communication by a station or wireless device. The method includes waking from a sleep state. Further, the method includes determining an availability of a transmission medium. In addition, in response to determining that the transmission medium is not available, the method can include determining a sleep time period, entering a second sleep state based on the sleep time period, and freezing a backoff counter for the duration of the second sleep state.