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(12) PATENT APPLICATION PUBLICATION (21) Application No.01169/DELNP/2004 A
(19) INDIA
(22) Date of filing of Application :30/04/2004 (43) Publication Date : 16/03/2007
(54) Title of the invention : "METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR INITIATING THE COUPLING OF A DATA DEVICE TO A DIGITAL NETWORK,
THROUGH A WIRELESS MESSAGING NETWORK"
(51) International classification :H04L 29/12 (71)Name of Applicant :
(31) Priority Document No :60/330,694 1)SIERRA WIRELESS, INC.
(32) Priority Date :29/10/2001 Address of Applicant :13811 WIRELESS WAY, RICHMOND, BRITISH
(33) Name of priority country :U.S.A.
COLUMBIA V6V 3A4 CANADA. Canada
(86) International Application No
:PCT/CA02/01627 (72)Name of Inventor :
Filing Date
:29/10/2002 1)JOSEPH PETER R. TOSEY
(87) International Publication No :WO 03/039103 2)RICHARD WODZIANEK
(61) Patent of Addition to Application Number :NA
Filing Date
:NA
(62) Divisional to to Application Number
:NA
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No of Pages : 27 No of Claims : 23
(57) Abstract :
In the invention, it is contemplated a method and apparatus for initiating a coupling of a network data device to a data network. In particular, a network data
device (35) receives data from an interconnected network (15). The network data device has a data network connection circuitry that allows it to send and/or
receive data from the interconnected network. The network data device also has a wireless messaging circuitry (40), responsive to signals from a wireless
message network (20). The data network connection circuitry is responsive to receive data from the interconnected network when the wireless messaging
circuitry indicates that the device is to do so. In an embodiment, the network data device operates in a number of states, one being a lower power state and
another being a higher power state. While in the lower power state, the wireless messaging circuitry can receive messages from the wireless messaging
network. In the higher power state the data network connection circuitry can receive and/or send messages from/to the interconnected data network. When a
message from the wireless messaging network, through the wireless messaging circuitry, indicates that an event is pending on the interconnected network for
the network data device, the device initiates a change in the power stale from the lower power state to the higher power state.
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