Patent attributes
A wireless device comprises receives, using a receiver of the wireless device, a first part of a frame and determines, using the first part of the frame, whether the frame is a frame of interest. When the frame is a frame of interest, the device receives a second part of the frame that occurs after the first part and includes a first information, and determines whether the first information indicates a first state. In response to determining that the first information indicates the first state, the wireless device enters a sleep state without receiving a third part of the frame that occurs after the second part. Determining whether a frame is a frame of interest may include determining that the frame is, for example, a Beacon frame intended for the wireless device and transmitted by another device in the same Basic Service Set as the wireless device.