公开(公告)号：US20160095061A1

公开(公告)日：2016-03-31

申请号：US14502064

申请日：2014-09-30

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Koby Vainapel ,  Merav Fridman ,  Yossef Yatir ,  Yoel Boger ,  Itay I. Gadassi ,  Hay Lev

IPC: H04W52/02

CPC classification number: H04W52/0225 ,  H04W84/12 ,  Y02D70/00 ,  Y02D70/1242 ,  Y02D70/1262 ,  Y02D70/142 ,  Y02D70/144 ,  Y02D70/164

Abstract: In order to reduce the power consumption associated with waking and receiving beacons, a current listening device in a group of electronic devices wakes and scans for a beacon from another electronic device (such as an access point) using a wireless-local-area-network (WLAN) communication protocol (such as Wi-Fi®). Then, the current listening device transmits information associated with the beacon to the group of electronic devices using a second communication protocol (such as Bluetooth® Low Energy), which is different than the WLAN communication protocol and has a lower power consumption. Moreover, the current listening device receives, using the second communication protocol, a sequence of responses from the group of electronic devices indicating that the information was received, wherein the responses from different electronic devices are received at different times. For example, the responses may be received in a predefined order and/or in round-robin fashion for the group of electronic devices.

Abstract translation: 为了降低与唤醒和接收信标相关联的功率消耗，一组电子设备中的当前监听设备使用无线局域网从另一电子设备（例如接入点）唤醒和扫描信标 （WLAN）通信协议（如Wi-Fi®）。 然后，当前的监听设备使用与WLAN通信协议不同并且具有较低功耗的第二通信协议（例如蓝牙低能量）将与信标相关联的信息发送到电子设备组。 此外，当前的监听装置使用第二通信协议接收来自指示接收到该信息的电子设备组的响应序列，其中在不同时间接收来自不同电子设备的响应。 例如，响应可以以用于该组电子设备的预定义顺序和/或循环方式来接收。