Correction of clock errors in a wireless station to enable reduction of power consumption

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PATENT NO 9572102
APP PUB NO 20150296453A1
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14488321

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According to an aspect, a wireless station uses a low-frequency clock during sleep intervals and a high-frequency clock during awake intervals. Drift between the low-frequency clock and the high-frequency clock are corrected to enable aligning a wake time instant of the wireless receiver with start of beacon transmissions from an access point, and thereby to reduce power wastage. According to another aspect, errors between the clock of an access point and that of a wireless station are corrected. The wireless station computes an error between the clocks, and extrapolates the error for a sleep interval to compute a wake-up time instant. The correction and extrapolation are performed in every awake interval. Again, undesired power consumption in the wireless station is thereby reduced.

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GAINSPAN CORPORATIONSAN JOSE CA

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Hiremath, Indudharswamy G Bangalore, IN 12 86
Kosuri, Venu Madhava Rao Bangalore, IN 4 45

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