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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Sep. 19, 2017

Filed:

Feb. 10, 2015
Applicant:

Qualcomm Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);

Inventors:

Kevin Neal Hayes, Mountain View, CA (US);

Adam Benjamin Lapede, Los Altos, CA (US);

Prerepa Viswanadham, Fremont, CA (US);

Dragan Petrovic, Union City, CA (US);

Mahesh Dandapani Iyer, Saratoga, CA (US);

Assignee:

QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 52/02 (2009.01); H04L 29/08 (2006.01); H04W 48/16 (2009.01); H04W 84/12 (2009.01); H04W 84/18 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 52/0216 (2013.01); H04L 67/1046 (2013.01); H04W 48/16 (2013.01); H04W 52/0219 (2013.01); H04W 84/12 (2013.01); H04W 84/18 (2013.01); Y02B 60/50 (2013.01);
Abstract

A wireless device configured as a group owner determines whether all client devices paired with the group owner are currently associated with the group owner. If all paired client devices are currently associated with the group owner, the group owner enters a first mode in which the group owner is in an active mode (powered up to communicate) during a first portion of a beacon interval and is in a low power mode (in which no communication occurs) during a second portion of the beacon interval. If not all paired client devices are currently associated with the group owner, the group owner enters a second mode in which the group owner is in the active state during the first portion and at least part of the second portion of the beacon interval. The group owner and client devices are configured to operate as master and slave.


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