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System and method for performing power management without losing data, connectivity or reachability

  • US 7,050,782 B1
  • Filed: 08/27/2002
  • Issued: 05/23/2006
  • Est. Priority Date: 05/25/2000
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A communications system that provides for power management, comprising:

  • a terminal unit that includes an operational state that supports a data communication and an idle state that does not support the data communication;

    a micro-controller configured to transition the terminal unit from the operational state to the idle state; and

    the micro-controller being further configured to request a communications sublayer entity to interrupt the micro-controller upon receiving a data cell destined for the terminal unit after transitioning the terminal unit from the operational state to the idle state.

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