Patent ID: 8422984

Claim:
A method for entering a power savings mode in a wireless mobile station exchanging data with a base station (BS), comprising: identifying a plurality of connections established for exchanging data between the mobile station and the base station, wherein at least two of the connections exchange data according to different types of scheduling services; aggregating at least two of the connections that exchange data according to different types of scheduling services into one or more groups, each group having a common power savings class (PSC) type and at least two of the connections that exchange data according to the different scheduling services, and wherein at least two of the aggregated connections in one of the groups have sleep windows with different durations; and activating the corresponding one or more common PSC types for each of the at least two aggregated connections of the corresponding one or more groups in response to detecting inactivity on each of the at least two aggregated connections that exchange data according to the different scheduling services of one or more of the groups for a predetermined period of time, the activation timed to align the sleep windows of each of the at least two aggregated connections within each group.