Patent ID: 9066197
Filing Date: 2015-06-23
Classification: H04W,Y02D

Abstract:
1. A method, comprising: establishing, by a mobile hotspot device, a control channel with a wireless device, using a Bluetooth™ communications connection in a Bluetooth™ communications medium, wherein said establishing of the control channel with the wireless device comprises exchanging, via at least one of the Bluetooth™ communications medium or via a wide area network connected to a server, at least one of a Bluetooth™ communications MAC address of the mobile hotspot device, a Bluetooth™ communications MAC address of the wireless device, Bluetooth™ pairing information, and shared secret information; exchanging, by the mobile hotspot device over the control channel, with the wireless device, WLAN communications connectivity configuration information to enable power saving in a WLAN communications tethering connection with the wireless device in a WLAN communications medium, for relaying by the mobile hotspot device, communications between the wireless device and one or more entities in at least one of a wide area communications network and a wireless local area network provided by the mobile hotspot device; and exchanging, by the mobile hotspot device over the control channel, with the wireless device, at least one of scheduled sleep and awake periods wherein both the mobile hotspot device and the wireless device observe substantially same sleep and awake periods and information of the sleep and awake periods in a WLAN tethering connection.