Patent ID: 8559361

Claim:
A system, comprising: a first receiver of a baseband processor (BBP) configured to determine whether a signal includes a frame; a second receiver of a media access controller (MAC) configured to identify a destination address in the frame; a processor configured to selectively process the frame; and a power management module configured to transition the first receiver of the BBP to an active mode (i) based on an energy level of the signal and (ii) before transitioning the second receiver of the MAC and the processor to the active mode, transition the second receiver of the MAC to the active mode (i) in response to determining that the signal includes the frame, (ii) after transitioning the first receiver of the BBP to the active mode, and (iii) before transitioning the processor to the active mode, and transition the processor to the active mode (i) based on the destination address and (ii) after transitioning first receiver of the BBP and the second receiver of the MAC to the active mode.