Patent ID: 9311446
Filing Date: 2016-04-12
CPC Classification: H04L,H04W

Claim Text:
1. A method for power management, the method comprising: identifying, by a first wireless network device, a second wireless network device that should remain in an active power state, wherein the first wireless network device and the second wireless network device are of a first plurality of wireless network devices in a first wireless network; determining, by the first wireless network device, a first network identifier associated with the second wireless network device; transmitting, by the first wireless network device, a first multicast message to the first plurality of wireless network devices, wherein the first multicast message comprises a header indicating the first network identifier, the first multicast message to cause the second wireless network device to remain in the active power state, receiving, at the first wireless network device a first beacon frame via a second wireless network having a second plurality of wireless network devices; determining, by the first wireless network device, whether the second wireless network; determining, by the first wireless network device, a second network identifier associated with the first wireless network device based, at least in part, on network; identifiers associated with the second plurality of wireless network devices; transmitting, by the first wireless network device, a second beacon frame to the second plurality of wireless network devices, the second beacon frame comprising the second network identifier to indicate the first wireless network device has joined the second wireless network; determining, by the first wireless network device, whether the first wireless network device will disconnect from the first wireless network; transmitting, in a third beacon frame by the first wireless network device to a third wireless network device in the first wireless network, an indication that the first wireless network device has disconnected from the first wireless network if determined that the first wireless network device will disconnect from the first wireless network; and transmitting, by the first wireless network device to the third wireless network device, the first network identifier in the third beacon frame if determined that the first wireless network device will remain connected to the first wireless network.