18758702. LINK POWER MANAGEMENT PROTOCOL FOR CONNECTED NETWORK DEVICES (Juniper Networks, Inc.)
LINK POWER MANAGEMENT PROTOCOL FOR CONNECTED NETWORK DEVICES
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Inventor(s)
Jonathan C. Barth of Collegeville PA US
Srihari Ramachandra Sangli of Bengaluru IN
Vyasraj Satyanarayana of Bangalore IN
Sandip Kumar Ghosh of Bangalore IN
LINK POWER MANAGEMENT PROTOCOL FOR CONNECTED NETWORK DEVICES
This abstract first appeared for US patent application 18758702 titled 'LINK POWER MANAGEMENT PROTOCOL FOR CONNECTED NETWORK DEVICES
Original Abstract Submitted
A first network device may provide a link discovery message to a second network device, and may identify a link based on the link discovery message. The first network device may provide, to the second network device, a first control channel message that identifies the link at the first network device, a current state of the link as a power on state, and a desired state of the link as a power sleep state, and may receive, from the second network device, a second control channel message that identifies the link at the second network device, the current state of the link as the power on state, and the desired state of the link as the power sleep state. The first network device may place the link in the power sleep state based on the first control channel message and the second control channel message.