Patent ID: 8989096
Filing Date: 2015-03-24
Classification: H04W,Y02D

Abstract:
1. An electronic device, comprising: an antenna; an interface circuit, coupled to the antenna, configured to communicate with another electronic device using a connection in the wireless network; a processor; and memory, wherein the memory stores applications and a program module, wherein the applications are configured to be executed by the processor, and wherein the program module is configured to be executed by the processor to select a wake policy of the electronic device, the program module including: instructions for monitoring a subset of the applications currently executed by the processor, wherein the subset can include zero or more of the applications; and instructions for selecting the wake policy of the interface circuit based on the subset, wherein, when the subset includes an application that uses multicast/broadcast data and unicast data, the wake policy specifies a first wake period wherein, when the subset includes one or more applications that only use unicast data, the wake policy specifies a second wake-time period that is different than the first wake-time period.