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Power management

  • US 7,751,357 B2
  • Filed: 02/06/2007
  • Issued: 07/06/2010
  • Est. Priority Date: 02/06/2006
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method for a network device to perform network communications on an autonomous peer network, the network device having a neighborhood of neighbor devices, the method comprising:

  • the network device broadcasting a first schedule for its own periodic local communication windows to the neighborhood;

    the network device receiving schedules for neighbor devices'"'"' periodic local communication windows from neighbor devices of the neighborhood;

    the network device examining the received schedules for neighbor devices'"'"' periodic local communication windows and the first schedule of its own periodic local communication windows and determining a schedule for global communication windows corresponding to a schedule of local communication windows having a lowest frequency of occurrence of the examined schedules; and

    during a scheduled global communication window, the network device broadcasting a second schedule of periodic local communication windows to the neighborhood.

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