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US 2019/0159124 A1Published application
Wireless local area network power saving method and access point
AssigneeFci
InventorsKyung Sik Cho, Beom Jin Kim
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Abstract
A wireless local area network power saving method and an access point are provided. The access point implements a sleep mode regardless of whether the access point connects to a station. Furthermore, the access point sets different access point wake-up time period depending on the situation whether the access point connects to the base station or not such that power saving effect is enhanced.
Claims10
An access point, comprising:
- a sleep mode operation unit, operating with a sleep mode of the access point enabled regardless of whether the access point connects to a station;
- a radio frequency (RF) communication module, broadcasting a beacon signal to an external environment, or transmitting data to or receiving data from the external environment;
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- a power saving timer control unit, disabling the sleep mode of the access point and enabling the RF communication module during a power saving timeout time period of each power saving timeout cycle set by the access point such that the access point transmits the data to or receives the data from the station.
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A wireless local area network power saving method, comprising:
- operating the access point having a sleep mode enabled regardless of whether an access point connects to a station;
- identifying whether a power saving timeout cycle set in the access point arrives or not;
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- at each time point of arrival of the set power saving timeout cycle, disabling the sleep mode during the power saving timeout time period set in the access point, and enabling a RF communication module to make the access point transmit data to or receive data from the station.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.