Patent ID: 8705427
Filing Date: 2014-04-22
Classification: H04W,Y02D

Abstract:
1. A method comprising: determining that a Bluetooth inquiry phase or a Bluetooth paging phase is beginning; in response to determining that the Bluetooth inquiry phase or the Bluetooth paging phase is beginning, sending, via a wireless local area network (WLAN) communication link, a power save indicator signal from a first device to a second device, wherein the power save indicator signal indicates that the first device is in a WLAN power save mode; determining timing of a gap (i) between Bluetooth inquiry phase message transmissions during the Bluetooth inquiry phase or (ii) between Bluetooth paging phase message transmissions during the Bluetooth paging phase; and sending, via the WLAN communication link, a power save poll signal from the first device to the second device during the gap to prompt the second device to transmit a WLAN packet to the first device during the gap.