Patent ID: 8452998

Claim:
A method comprising: initiating the transmission of a wake-up packet on a wireless local area network, wherein the wake-up packet is configured to cause a wireless device to transition from operating in a first power mode to operating in a second power mode; initiating the transmission of a confirmation message to a requesting application if a confirmation packet has been received from the wireless device in response to the wake-up packet, wherein the confirmation message indicates that the wireless device has transitioned from operating in the first power mode to operating in the second power mode; periodically reinitiating the transmission of the wake-up packet for a retransmission timeframe if a conformation packet has not been received from the wireless device in response to the wake-up packet; and initiating the transmission of a failure message to the requesting application if a confirmation packet has not been received from the wireless device in response to the wake-up packet before the retransmission timeframe has elapsed.