RECEIVER STATE ESTIMATION IN A DUTY CYCLED RADIO
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Abstract
A method for receiver state estimation includes communicating, from a first communications device to a second communications device, a first plurality of wake-up frames; receiving, at the first communications device from the second communications device, an indication of a received wake-up frame of the communicated first plurality of wake-up frames; determining, by the first communications device, a time at which the second communications device is in a ready state based on the received indication; subsequently communicating, from the first communications device to the second communications device, a second plurality of wake-up frames. The first plurality is greater than the second plurality, the reduction in number from the first plurality to the second plurality being based on the determined time at which the second communications device is in a ready state.
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42 Claims
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23. A communications device comprising:
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a receiver; a transmitter; and a processor; wherein the communications device is configured to; communicate to a second communications device a first plurality of wake-up frames, receive, from the second communications device in response to the communicated first plurality of wake-up frames, an indication of a received wake-up frame of the communicated first plurality of wake-up frames, determine, utilizing the processor, a time at which the second communications device is in a ready state based on the received indication, and subsequently communicate to the second communications device a second plurality of wake-up frames, wherein the first plurality is greater than the second plurality, the reduction in number from the first plurality to the second plurality being based on the determined time at which the second communications device is in a ready state. - View Dependent Claims (24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30)
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31. A communications device comprising:
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a receiver; a transmitter; and a processor; wherein the communications device is configured to; communicate to a second communications device a first plurality of wake-up frames, receive, from the second communications device in response to the communicated first plurality of wake-up frames, an indication of a received wake-up frame of the communicated first plurality of wake-up frames, determine, utilizing the processor, an offset time relative to a clock of the communications device based on the received indication, and subsequently communicate to the second communications device a second plurality of wake-up frames, wherein the first plurality is greater than the second plurality, the reduction in number from the first plurality to the second plurality being based on the determined offset time. - View Dependent Claims (32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39)
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40. A system, comprising:
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a first communications device configured to communicate, to a second communications device, a first plurality of wake-up frames; a second communications device configured to, based upon receipt of one or more wake-up frames of the first plurality of wake-up frames, communicate an indication of a received wake-up frame to the first communications device; wherein the first communications device is further configured to determine an offset time relative to a clock of the first communications device based on the received indication, and subsequently communicate to the second communications device, a second plurality of wake-up frames; wherein the first plurality is greater than the second plurality, the reduction in number from the first plurality to the second plurality being based on the determined offset time. - View Dependent Claims (41, 42)
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