Patent ID: 9661573
Date: 2017-05-23
CPC Classifications: H04L,H04W,Y02D

Claim:
1. A method of wakeup beacon interval (BI) calculation for a non-personal basic set control point (PCP)/non-access point (AP) device, the method comprising: checking if the non-PCP/non-AP device has multiple media access control (MAC) addresses; and if yes, calculating a wakeup BI based upon at least one of a pseudo-static schedule and a wakeup element, the wakeup BIs being wakeup BIs of all stations identified by MAC addresses in a multiple MAC address element, the multiple MAC address element comprising an element identification field comprising a physical MAC address for the non-PCP/non-AP device, a length field, and a plurality of virtual MAC addresses, each virtual MAC address being associated with a respective virtual internal station from a plurality thereof.