Patent ID: 8352768
Filing Date: 2013-01-08
Classification: G06F,Y02D

Abstract:
1. A method of controlling power states of a peripheral device, the method comprising: monitoring communications across a network to learn first associations between occurrences of certain traffic on the network and use of the peripheral proximate in time to the occurrences; detecting a subsequent occurrence of the certain traffic on the network; using the first associations to determine that a user is proximately located to the peripheral responsive to detecting the subsequent occurrence of the certain traffic on the network; changing the peripheral from a first lower power state to a second higher power state in response to determining that the user is proximately located to the peripheral; wherein the network comprises a wireless local area network, and wherein detecting the subsequent occurrence of the certain traffic and using the first associations comprises: learning second associations between discovering a wireless communication terminal having a received identifier and the peripheral receiving an operational command via the network within a threshold time of the discovery; using the second associations to determine when discovery of a wireless communication terminal having the received identifier is associated with the user of the peripheral; and when the peripheral is in the first power state, changing the peripheral to the second power state in response to determining that a discovered wireless communication terminal having the received identifier is associated with the user of the peripheral.