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AssigneeMicrosoft Technology Licensing, LLC
InventorsRanveer Chandra, John C. Krumm, Xia Zhou, Stefan Saroiu
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The minimization of the amount of power consumed by an electronic device in acquiring or maintaining network connectivity with a network may extend the battery life of the electronic device. When the electronic device has established a communication connection with a wireless access point, the electronic device cycles a network interface controller of the electronic device between a power on state and a power off state without terminating the communication connection. Accordingly, the electronic device powers on a main processor of the electronic device when the network interface controller detects a beacon during the power on state that indicates the wireless access point has a buffered data frame for the electronic device.
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An electronic device comprising:
A method of performing operations on an electronic device, the electronic device including a main processor, main memory, and a network interface controller (NIC), the NIC including a NIC processor and a NIC memory, the method comprising:
The method of 31, wherein the NIC inserts a set of wireless access point identifiers into the NIC memory and determines a probable match between a wireless access point and one of the wireless access point identifiers in the set, wherein an amount of wireless access point identifiers in the set of wireless access point identifiers is greater than a number of identifier slots available in the NIC memory.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.