US 12,143,930 B2
Signal-repeater device operable in low-power repeater-operational mode
Bernd Ackermann, Aachen (DE); Harald Josef Günther Radermacher, Aachen (DE); and Matthias Wendt, Würselen (DE)
Assigned to SIGNIFY HOLDING B.V., Eindhoven (NL)
Appl. No. 17/418,089
Filed by SIGNIFY HOLDING B.V., Eindhoven (NL)
PCT Filed Dec. 17, 2019, PCT No. PCT/EP2019/085593
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Jun. 24, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/144010, PCT Pub. Date Jul. 16, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. 19151125 (EP), filed on Jan. 10, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0104120 A1, Mar. 31, 2022
Int. Cl. H04W 52/02 (2009.01); H04L 1/00 (2006.01); H04L 1/08 (2006.01)
CPC H04W 52/0206 (2013.01) [H04L 1/0025 (2013.01); H04L 1/08 (2013.01)] 14 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A signal-repeater device for wireless signals, comprising:
a signal processor which is configured to perform a signal receiving function involving reception of wireless input signals which transport payload information or control information between an external network gateway device and one or more external wireless transceiver devices associated with the signal-repeater device, and which is configured to perform, in a regular repeater-operation mode, the signal receiving function and a signal repeating function involving a retransmission of an amplified wireless output signal carrying the payload information or the control information; and
an operation controller which is configured:
to operate the signal processor in the regular repeater-operation mode and in a low-power repeater-operation mode, in which the signal repeating function is switched off;
to determine status information indicative of the associated external transceiver devices being respectively operated in a low-power transceiver-operation mode;
to switch off the signal repeating function upon determining from the status information that each of the one or more associated external wireless transceiver devices is being operated in the low-power transceiver-operation mode; and
while the signal processor is being operated in the low-power repeater-operation mode, to await reception of a predetermined repeater-wake-up signal, and, upon reception thereof, to switch to operation of the signal processor in the regular repeater-operation mode; and the signal-repeater device further comprising:
a low-power wake-up radio receiver unit configured to receive, while the signal-repeater device is operating in the low-power repeater-operation mode, the repeater-wake-up signal and to forward it to the operation controller and not to the signal processor.