US 11,690,015 B2
Reducing listen mode power consumption of a wireless local area network (WLAN) device
Soumen Chakraborty, Bangalore (IN); Shwetank Kishorkumar Mistry, Bangalore (IN); Kyungwan Nam, San Jose, CA (US); Ming-Tuo Chin, Santa Clara, CA (US); James Michael Gardner, San Ramon, CA (US); Arvind Keerti, Fremont, CA (US); and Chiao Cheng Huang, Hsinchu (TW)
Assigned to QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US)
Filed by QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US)
Filed on Mar. 26, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/214,481.
Prior Publication US 2022/0312330 A1, Sep. 29, 2022
Int. Cl. H04W 52/02 (2009.01)
CPC H04W 52/0245 (2013.01) [H04W 52/0229 (2013.01)] 30 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for wireless communications in a wireless local area network (WLAN) performed by a first WLAN device, comprising:
alternating, during a listen mode, one or more components of the first WLAN device between a power-off state of the listen mode and a power-on state of the listen mode of the first WLAN device in accordance with a duty cycle;
cycling, by the first WLAN device, between the listen mode, a receive mode, and a sleep mode; and
receiving, during the power-on state of the listen mode, preamble information of a packet from a second WLAN device.