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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 08, 2017
Filed:
Jan. 30, 2015
Aruba Networks, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Gautam Bhanage, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Venkatesh Kannan, Bangalore, IN;
Aruba Networks, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
The present disclosure discloses a system and a method for providing power save aware multicast support. Specifically, a network device first determines that each of a first subset of client devices, of a plurality of client devices, is associated with a first characteristic indicating that the first subset of client devices is not in a power save mode. Based at least on the first determination, the network device transmits a message in a multicast format to the first subset of client devices. Second, the network device determines that each of a second subset of client devices, of the plurality of client devices, is associated with a second characteristic indicating that the second subset of client devices is in a power save mode. Based at least on the second determination, the network device transmits the message in a unicast format to each of the second subset of client devices.