US 2018/0027497 A1Published application

Fleet power management through information storage sharing

AssigneeHand Held Products, Inc.

InventorsErik Van Horn, Sean Philip Kearney, Patrick Anthony Giordano

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Abstract

Systems for power management of a fleet of devices through information storage sharing are described. According to one embodiment, each one of a group of networked devices offloads information to a substantially powered hub device before entering a low power consumption mode and receives the respective information back from the hub device upon wake. Another embodiment describes a system of networked devices in which each one of the networked devices offloads information to a selected networked device before entering a sleep mode and receives the respective information back from that selected networked device after entering a wake mode. Another embodiment describes a system whereby the original selected networked device then backups to a new selected networked device if the original selected networked device needs to enter a low power consumption mode, and the other networked devices receive the respective information back from the new selected networked device.

Claims23

Dependent claims

A system, comprising:

a first device comprising:
a first communication interface;
a first control system communicatively coupled to the first communication interface and comprising at least one first hardware processor and a first memory storing program codes operable to:
receive a first sleep event;
send first information to a third device;
enter a first sleep mode;
receive a first wake event;
and
receive the first information from the third device;
and
a second device comprising:
a second communication interface;
a second control system communicatively coupled to the second communication interface and comprising at least one second hardware processor and a second memory storing program codes operable to:
receive a second sleep event;
send second information to the third device;
enter a second sleep mode;
receive a second wake event;
and
receive the second information from the third device;
and
a substantially powered third device comprising:
a third communication interface;
a third control system communicatively coupled to the third communication interface and comprising at least one third hardware processor and a third memory storing program codes operable to:
receive the first information from the first device;
receive the second information from the second device;
send the first information to the first device after the first wake event;
and
send the second information to the second device after the second wake event.

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A system, comprising:

a powered central device;
and
a plurality of networked devices communicatively coupled to the powered central device, wherein each network device from amongst the plurality of networked devices comprises:
a communication interface;
and
a control system communicatively coupled to the communication interface, the control system comprising:
a memory storing instructions;
and
a processor coupled to the memory, wherein the processor corresponding to at least one of the network devices from amongst the network devices is to execute the instructions stored in the memory to:
receive a sleep event;
send an information to a central device;
enter a sleep mode;
receive a wake event;
and
receive the information from the central powered device;
wherein the powered central device is configured to:
receive the information from at least one of the network devices;
and
send the information to the at least one of the network devices after the wake event.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 15/720,255Filed 29 Sep 2017
Priority: 26 Aug 2015
Published: 25 Jan 2018
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification6 codes

H04W 52/0261
In terminal devices: managing power supply demand, e.g. depending on battery level
H04W 4/18
Services specially adapted for wireless communication networks; Facilities therefor: information format or content conversion, e.g. adaptation by…
H04W 52/0209
Power saving arrangements: in terminal devices
Y02D 30/70
Reducing energy consumption in communication networks: in wireless communication networks

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Application14/836,030Continuation · filed 26 Aug 2015
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