Appeal No. 1997-0899
Application No. 08/127,268
DECISION ON APPEAL
This is a decision on the appeal under 35 U.S.C. § 134
from the examiner’s rejection of claims 1-15, which constitute
all the claims in the application.
The disclosed invention pertains to a method and
apparatus for conserving power in a wireless data
communication system.
Representative claim 1 is reproduced as follows:
1. A method of operating a wireless data communication
system including a plurality of wireless stations, comprising
the steps of:
broadcasting synchronizing messages from a selected
station of the plurality of stations;
identifying which of a number of non-selected
stations of the plurality of stations are to receive data
messages by transmitting traffic indicator information from
the selected station, wherein at least two non-selected
stations were identified in the identifying step;
operating the non-selected stations in an awake
state of relatively high power consumption during the
broadcasting step and the identifying step;
changing the operating state of non-selected
stations that were not identified in the identifying step to a
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