Patent ID: 11943710
Assignee: ARRIS ENTERPRISES LLC
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  Y | IPC H

Claim 15:
16. A non-transitory computer readable medium of an electronic device storing one or more instructions thereon, the one or more instructions, when executed by a processor of the electronic device, cause the electronic device to perform one or more operations comprising:
identify a type of a client associated with the one or more clients, from a plurality of different types of clients, connected to a first extender node;
read a current time from a local clock;
determining whether the current time falls within the specified sleep time interval for a first extender node of the one or the plurality of extender nodes, and wherein the electronic device is an access point that provides the plurality of extender nodes access to an external network, wherein the specified sleep time interval is selected by the electronic device based on the type, and wherein each of the plurality of different types correspond to a different specified sleep time interval and a different traffic threshold;
in response to determining that the current time falls within the specified sleep time interval, determining whether the first extender node is in an idle connection state, wherein the idle connection state includes the first extender node being not connected to any of the one or more clients or the first extender node being only connected to a sleeping client of the one or more clients; and
in response to determining that the first extender node is in the idle connection state, sending, by the electronic device, a sleep command to the first extender node, instructing the first extender node to power off a wireless network interface for the wireless communication network of the first extender node.