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Reducing power consumption of an electronic system having a communication device

  • US 6,944,687 B2
  • Filed: 04/19/2002
  • Issued: 09/13/2005
  • Est. Priority Date: 04/19/2002
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A computer system, comprising:

  • a host CPU; and

    a wireless module coupled to said host CPU via an electrical connection to permit the computer system to communicate with a wireless network;

    wherein, at first predefined periods of time, said host CPU polls said wireless module to determine whether said wireless module has received any input data from the wireless network, but, at second predefined periods of time, does not poll said wireless module to determine whether said wireless module has received any Input data from the wireless network.

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