Patent ID: 7380145

Claim:
A device comprising: a battery power source; a radio transceiver powered by the battery and having components for transmission and receipt of data; a memory having instructions stored thereon, the instructions including a plurality of power management algorithms; and a controller coupled to the transceiver and to the memory and configured to execute the instructions so as to create, via the transceiver, wireless connections with remote devices in any of a plurality of connection configurations, detect the presence, in a wireless transmission from a remote device, of one or more parameters identifying one of the plurality of configurations, implement, based on the configuration identified, one of the plurality of power management algorithms, implement, upon determining the presence of the at least one parameter, a power management algorithm of the plurality in which the transceiver is deactivated after a first period of device inactivity, and implement, upon determining the absence of the at least one parameter, a power management algorithm of the plurality in which the transceiver is deactivated after a second period of device inactivity, the second period being longer than the first period.