Cisco Systems, Inc.
Networked sleep mode management

Abstract:

Networked sleep mode management is provided by measuring network conditions for a first Access Point serving a plurality of client devices configured to operate in one of a sleep mode and an active mode; in response to detecting an amount of network usage devoted to transitioning members of the plurality of client devices from the sleep mode to the active mode satisfies a threshold: identifying a first subset of client devices from the plurality of client devices that are in the sleep mode; identifying a given client device from the first subset of client devices to transition to the active mode; and transmitting a tear-down message to the given client device that instructs the given client device to transition from the sleep mode to the active mode.