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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 02, 2016
Filed:
Nov. 05, 2012
Applicant:
Comcast Cable Communications, Llc, Philadelphia, PA (US);
Inventors:
Shawn O'Malley, Glenside, PA (US);
Whitney Blackmon, Holland, PA (US);
Assignee:
Comcast Cable Communications, LLC, Philadelphia, PA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/32 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/3209 (2013.01); G06F 1/3203 (2013.01); G06F 1/3206 (2013.01);
Abstract
Disclosures related to waking a sleeping device while minimizing active components needed to receive a remote wakeup request. In one aspect, devices having an RF tuner, may be configured to detect a digital or an analog signal variation or change in RF signal characteristics. Further, the variation or change may be interpreted as a wakeup signal.