Patent ID: 8203985

Claim:
A method, comprising: negotiating, by a first station with a second station, a wakeup schedule for the first station and the second station to exchange data, wherein the negotiating is via a direct link between the first station and the second station, wherein further the direct link comprises a wireless peer-to-peer link of a tunneled direct link setup (TDLS) network, the negotiating comprising: determining by the first station an acceptable wakeup frequency of another wakeup schedule; and accepting by the first station the wakeup schedule, wherein the wakeup schedule was proposed by the second station, and the wakeup schedule contains a higher wakeup frequency than the wakeup frequency of the other wakeup schedule pursuant to a rule requiring the first station to accept a wakeup schedule proposed by a peer station, wherein the first station determined an acceptable wakeup schedule and the peer station proposes a wakeup schedule with a higher wakeup frequency than the acceptable wakeup schedule; entering by the first station a first mode of power saving according to the wakeup schedule while the second station is in a second mode of power saving; and exiting by the first station the first mode based on the wakeup schedule.