Method of power conservation

• US 5,524,021 A
• Filed: 04/04/1994
• Issued: 06/04/1996
• Est. Priority Date: 04/04/1994
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Google Technology Holdings LLC (Alphabet Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Motorola, Inc. (Motorola Solutions, Inc.)
• Inventors: Dutkiewica, Marek, Scotton, Geoffrey R.
• Primary Examiner(s): Chin, Stephen
• Assistant Examiner(s): GLUCK, JEFFREY WILLIAM
• Application Number:
  US08/222,047
• Time in Patent Office: 792 Days
• Field of Search: 375/8, 375/71, 455/38.3, 455/343
• US Class Current: 375/222
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 1/38 Transceivers, i.e. devices in which transmitter and receiver form a structural unit and in which at least one part is used for functions of transmitting and receiving
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/10 Current supply arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 9/40 Network security protocols
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 11/066 Telephone sets adapted for data transmision
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 60/00 Affiliation to network, e.g. registration; Terminating affiliation with the network, e.g. de-registration
• CPC Class Codes: Y02D 30/70 in wireless communication networks

Abstract

A method of modem power conservation used in a data communications system having an infrastructure (101), and a modem (103), the modem registered with the infrastructure and adapted to provide data communications between a host terminal (105) and the infrastructure (101), the method including the steps of: receiving, at the modem (103), a message: determining that the message is not deliverable to the host terminal (105): and responsive thereto entering, at the modem (103), a power conservation mode. An alternative method directed to the same purposes includes the steps of: entering, at the modem (103), a power conservation mode after a first predetermined time has lapsed without message activity: exiting the power conservation mode after a second predetermined time has lapsed: and finally registering with the infrastructure (101).

Claims

1. In a data communications system having an infrastructure, and a modem, the modem registered with the infrastructure and adapted to provide data communications between a host terminal and the infrastructure, a method of modem power conservation including the steps of;

receiving, at the modem, a message,

determining that said message is not deliverable to the host terminal, and

entering, at the modem responsive to said determining step, a power conservation mode.

2. The method of claim 1 further including, after the step of receiving the message, the step of activating an indicator, said indicator denoting receipt of said message.

3. The method of claim 2 further including a step of determining when said message is deliverable to the host terminal and exiting said power conservation mode.

4. The method of claim 3 wherein said step of determining when said message is deliverable resulted from the host terminal initiating an inbound message.

5. The method of claim 4 further including a step of registering with the infrastructure and transmitting said inbound message.

6. The method of claim 1 wherein said step of entering further includes a step of de-registering the modem from the infrastructure.

7. The method of claim 6 further including a step of determining when said message is deliverable to the host terminal and exiting said power conservation mode.

8. The method of claim 7 further including the step of registering with the infrastructure.

9. The method of claim 8 further including a step of receiving, at the modem, non-acknowledged messages stored by the infrastructure while the modem was in said power conservation mode.

10. The method of claim 7 wherein said step of determining when said message is deliverable resulted from the host terminal initiating an inbound message.

11. The method of claim 10 further including a step of registering with the infrastructure and transmitting said inbound message.

12. In a data communications system having an infrastructure, and a modem, the modem registered with the infrastructure and adapted to provide data communications between a host terminal and the infrastructure, a method of modem power conservation including the steps of;

entering, at the modem, a power conservation mode after a first predetermined time has lapsed without data message activity between the modem and the host terminal;

exiting said power conservation mode after a second predetermined time has lapsed, and then registering with the infrastructure;

receiving, at the modem, a message;

determining that said message is not deliverable to the host terminal; and

entering, at the modem responsive to said determining step, said power conservation mode.

13. The method of claim 12 wherein said step of entering includes a step of de-registering with the infrastructure.

14. The method of claim 13 further including, after the step of receiving the message, a step of activating an indicator.

15. The method of claim 13 further including a step of receiving, at the modem, non-acknowledged messages stored by the infrastructure while the modem was in said power conservation mode.

16. The method of claim 12 including a step of exiting said power conservation mode when the host terminal initiates an inbound message.

17. The method of claim 16 further including a step of registering with the infrastructure and transmitting said inbound message.

18. The method of claim 12 further including, after the step of receiving the message, the step of activating an indicator, said indicator denoting receipt of said message.

19. The method of claim 12 wherein said step of entering further includes a step of de-registering the modern from the infrastructure.

20. The method of claim 19 further including a step of determining when said message is deliverable to the host terminal and exiting said power conservation mode.

21. The method claim 20 further including the step of registering with the infrastructure.

22. The method of claim 21 further including a step of receiving, at the modem, non-acknowledged messages stored by the infrastructure while the modem was in said power conservation mode.

23. The method of claim 20 wherein said step of determining when said message is deliverable resulted from the host terminal initiating an inbound message.

24. The method of claim 23 further including a step of registering with the infrastructure and transmitting said inbound message.

25. The method of claim 12 further including a step of determining when said message is deliverable to the host terminal and exiting said power conservation mode.

26. The method of claim 25 wherein said step of determining when said message is deliverable resulted from the host terminal initiating an inbound message.

27. The method of claim 26 further including a step of registering with the infrastructure and transmitting said inbound message.