WIRELESS ROUTER OR RESIDENTIAL GATEWAY CAPABLE OF DISTINGUISHING POWER-SENSITIVE WIRELESS SENSORS AND PROVIDING SEPARATE TREATMENT THERETO

摘要

Techniques are disclosed for a wireless router or residential gateway to distinguish power-sensitive wireless sensors and provide separate treatments thereto for low power consumption connections. In some embodiments, a network device includes a wireless network circuit, and control circuitry coupled to the network circuit and configured to, upon receipt of a request of connection from a client, identify whether the client is power-sensitive. The network device can further cause, if the client is identified as power-sensitive, the power-sensitive client to connect using a low-power connection while maintaining a regular connection to other regular clients. The low-power connection can be operated on a first channel different from but in a same frequency band as a second channel on which the regular connection is operated.

主权项

1. A network device, comprising:
control circuitry coupled to one or more wireless network circuits and configured to:
upon receipt of a request of connection from a client, identify whether the client is power-sensitive; andif the client is identified as power-sensitive, cause the power-sensitive client to connect using a low-power connection while maintaining a regular connection to other regular clients,wherein the low-power connection is operated on a first channel different from but in a same frequency band as a second channel on which the regular connection is operated.