Patent ID: 7155263

Claim:
A method for conserving power in a wireless ad hoc network, comprising: receiving, in a device, a burst via the wireless network, the burst including a preamble, a postamble and one or more blocks of data, the device being in one of a low power state and a powered off state at a time when the preamble is received: determining whether the preamble of the burst includes data indicating an ID of the receiving device; when the determining determines that the preamble includes the data indicating the ID of the receiving device, performing: deriving, from the preamble, information indicating a time for powering on one or more components of the device to receive the one or more blocks of data included in the burst; powering on the one or more components at a first time period based on the derived information in order to receive the data in a block of the one or more blocks; powering off the one or more components at a specific time period from a beginning of the first time period based on the derived information; repeating the powering on and the powering off for each of the one or more blocks of data in the burst; and processing the received one or more blocks of data.