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Low power wireless network for ad-hoc applications

  • US 8,837,342 B2
  • Filed: 03/07/2013
  • Issued: 09/16/2014
  • Est. Priority Date: 04/28/2011
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A network device for communicating with a low-power wireless network, the network device comprising:

  • a battery;

    a wireless interface; and

    a processing unit coupled with the battery and the wireless interface, wherein the processing unit configured to cause the network device to;

    detect, using the wireless interface, a packet of information from the low-power wireless network, wherein the detection occurs while the network device is operating in a first mode;

    operate in a second mode, wherein;

    the network device uses less power while operating in the second mode than while operating in the first mode, andoperating in the second mode is based, at least in part, on information of the packet of information;

    determine that a condition has occurred; and

    change a time in which the network device operates in the second mode, wherein the change is based, at least in part, on the determination that the condition has occurred.

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