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US 2010/0250992 A1Published application
Method to Lower the Operating Cost of Wireless Network by Enforcing Low Power Infrastructure Operation
AssigneeSymbol Technologies, Inc.
InventorsRajiv Iyer, Jason Harris, Ramesh Sekhar
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Abstract
A system and techniques for managing power utilization in a wireless local area network are disclosed. The system can utilize an infrastructure power management module that is configured to identify and power down one or more unused wireless devices and/or dynamically reconfigure the wireless operation of one or more wireless devices to consume lower power while still operating according to network requirements.
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A method of managing power utilization in a wireless local area network (WLAN) infrastructure comprising:
- monitoring network operation information of a first network component included in the WLAN infrastructure, the network operation information including a power utilization of the first network component;
- comparing the power utilization of the first network component to a threshold utilization value defined for the first network component;
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- reconfiguring the first network component to operate at the threshold utilization value based on the comparison,
- wherein the first network component is at least one of a wireless switch and a wireless access port.
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A system for managing power consumption of a WLAN infrastructure comprising:
- a wireless network;
- a first network component operatively coupled to the network, the first network component being at least one of a wireless switch and a wireless access port;
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- an infrastructure power management module operatively coupled to the network, the management module configured to 1) monitor network operation information of the first network component included in the WLAN infrastructure, the network operation information including a power utilization of the first network component, 2) compare the power utilization utilized by the first network component to a power threshold value defined for the first network component, and 3) reconfigure the first network component to operate at the power threshold value based on the comparison.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.