Microsoft patents a low consumption Wi-Fi system aimed at optimizing tethering

Connected devices are our daily bread and thus we see how we are continuously accompanied by _smartphones_, tablets, laptops, in the most cases with an internet connection through the use of data lines with greater or lesser potential for use depending on the megabytes contracted.

But of course, there are cases in which either we don't have that connection or the remaining data is insufficient, so support on another device as a backup source is necessary, or at least convenient, if we don't want to scare our pocket, a process that in many occasions was based on the use of network sharing with our _smartphone_ via Bluetooth.

Microsoft however wants to optimize this process and for this it is working on a patent to improve its use on Windows phones but making use of the Wi-Fi connection as Bluetooth support so that the battery can be prevented from flying by in terms of consumption.

It would be something like a kind of low consumption Wi-Fi oriented towards _tethering_ that would seek to avoid on the one hand that the phone does not it had to be constantly in a maximum power mode and on the other hand the occasional (which doesn't always happen) drops in the connection that force the device to be re-paired manually.

Significant battery savings of up to 90%

With this new patent it is sought that the two devices that are paired have established in parallel the moments in which they fall into _deep sleep_or idle times in which data exchange is not needed, so that savings of up to 90% could be achieved by making our mobile (in this case the data source) go to sleep at times when that it really wasn't necessary.

An intelligent system that for this could detect when the use of data is not necessary because for example, we are reading a web page and We have already fully loaded it or also because we are editing a photo before uploading it to a social network and in that period we are not making use of our connection.

When will this patent become a reality on computers running Windows 10 and Windows 10 Mobile?_ This is the question to which there is no answer for now, but surely it will continue to increase of the leading role of the _smartphone_ in our lives would be an almost mandatory improvement and very well received by users.

Via | MSPowerUser