Patent ID: 8902797

Claim:
A method to optimize energy consumption of a multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system that includes a first wireless communication device and a second wireless communication device, the method comprising: collecting a set of information associated with one or more of an energy consumption, a network traffic condition, an environmental condition, and/or quality of a communication link associated with the first wireless communication device and/or the MIMO system and tracked by one or more modules of the MIMO system, wherein collecting the set of information comprises one or more of gathering information associated with the energy consumption by a first of the one or more modules configured to obtain static information, gathering information associated with the network traffic condition and/or the quality of communication link by a second of the one or more modules configured to obtain dynamic information, and gathering information associated with the environmental condition by a third of the one or more modules configured to obtain environmental information associated with the first wireless communication device and/or the MIMO system; determining whether to cause a device-level change or a system-level change to the MIMO system based on an energy saving approach developed from the collected set of information; configuring the first wireless communication device to change from operating at a first energy intensive level to a first reduced energy consumption level based on the collected set of information; if the system-level change to the MIMO system is to occur, identifying operation information associated with the first wireless communication device based upon at least the configuration of the first wireless communication device; and transmitting the operation information for reception by the second wireless communication device so that the second wireless communication device can be configured to change from operating at a second energy intensive level to a second reduced energy consumption level based on the operation information.