Method for placing in standby and waking up a residential gateway according to programmable time slots
AssigneeSagemcom Broadband SAS
InventorNicolas Dangy-Caye
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Abstract
The present invention concerns a method for putting on standby and waking up a domestic gateway, characterized in that a time slot is stored by the gateway and the gateway is put on standby at the start of the said time slot and woken up at the end of the said time slot. It also concerns a domestic gateway that implements the said method.
Claims12
A method for putting on standby and waking up a domestic gateway, a time slot information being stored in memory by the domestic gateway, the domestic gateway being put on standby at a start of said time slot and woken up at an end of said time slot, wherein the domestic gateway performs:
- retrieving a time window information from an item of equipment via a communications network to which the domestic gateway is connected,
- storing in memory the time window information, and
- shifting randomly the start of the time slot over the time window.
A domestic gateway comprising a main processor, a memory, a main supply that is connected to an electrical supply source and is intended to power-supply components including the main processor and interfaces of the domestic gateway, wherein said domestic gateway comprises second processor power-supplied by a second supply that is connected to the electrical supply source, wherein the domestic gateway stores in memory a time slot information such that the domestic gateway puts itself on standby at a start of said time slot and wakes up at an end of said time slot, and wherein said microprocessor is configured to enable the domestic gateway to perform:
- retrieving a time window information from an item of equipment via a communications network to which the domestic gateway is connected,
- storing in memory the time window information, and
- shifting randomly the start of the time slot over the time window.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.