Patent ID: 9668294
Date: 2017-05-30
CPC Classifications: H04L,H04W

Claim:
1. A method for wireless communicating, comprising: receiving, at a first device, application data from a second device; processing, by an application, the application data; receiving at the first device, over a connection, a packet indicating suspending the connection, wherein the connection is between the first device and the second device; in response to the packet indicating suspending the connection, suspending the connection, and storing at the first device a suspended connection attribute record and a suspended application state parameter, wherein the suspended connection attribute record is associated with the connection and includes connection attributes for resuming the connection, and wherein the suspended application state parameter characterizes a state of the application after processing the application data; receiving at the first device an advertisement packet having a resume suspended connection request; determining whether the resume suspended connection request is a request to resume the connection associated with the suspended connection attribute record; and in response to an affirmative result of the determining, resuming the connection, wherein the resuming is based at least in part on at least one of the connection attributes that are in the suspended connection attribute record.