Patent ID: 8086213

Claim:
A circuit for arbitrating media access requests from a plurality of wireless components, said circuit comprising: a request processing circuit configured to: set a positive media access grant output for a first wireless component of said plurality of wireless components just prior to the request processing circuit entering a power saving mode of operation; while the request processing circuit exits said power saving mode of operation, determine a waking media access state of said first wireless component, wherein: a first value of said media access state corresponds to a determination of a presence of signal activity between said first wireless component and an antenna at a time of the request processing circuit exiting the power saving mode, and a second value of said media access state corresponds to a determination of an absence of said signal activity at the time of the request processing circuit exiting the power saving mode; and process media access requests from said plurality of wireless components based on said waking media access state of said first wireless component.