Patent ID: 8204555

Claim:
A method for effecting power saving in a subscriber's device associated with a wireless network which comprises a base station and at least said subscriber device, and wherein said subscriber's device is operative to simultaneously receive at least two different traffic carrying connections each of which is characterized by one or more characteristics related to traffic demands associated with that connection, which method comprises: classifying each of said at least two different connections into corresponding power saving classes, provided that there are at least two different simultaneously active power saving classes associated with said at least two different connections; for each of said power saving classes, determining required listening windows and required sleep windows; determining unavailability periods of time for said subscriber's device during which no communications will be exchanged between said base station and said subscriber's device, such that the unavailability windows are determined based on a combination of the sleep windows of said at least two simultaneously active power saving classes; initiating a power saving procedure in accordance with parameters associated with time domain location of the listening/sleep windows.