Patent ID: 9392546
Filing Date: 2016-07-12
CPC Classification: H04W,Y02D

Claim Text:
1. A method for deactivating at least one component of an entity of a wireless communications network comprising a plurality of entities, said communications network being organized into a plurality of communications layers comprising a physical layer, wherein the method comprises, at the physical layer, steps of: receiving a header of a data frame extracted from a signal being received with a recipient entity; decoding at least a signaling field of said header delivering at least one piece of information representative of at least one addressee entity for said frame, said at least one piece of information taking account of a result of a hash function applied on only an Association Identifier of said at least one addressee entity and a Basic Service Set Identifier; and deactivating at least one component of said recipient entity for said header, when the piece of information representative of said at least one addressee entity designates an entity other than said recipient entity.