Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Neighbor awareness networking tree mapping
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Application No.: US15241462Application Date: 2016-08-19
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Publication No.: US10397970B2Publication Date: 2019-08-27
- Inventor: Lawrie Kurian , Yong Liu
- Applicant: Apple Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA Cupertino
- Assignee: Apple Inc.
- Current Assignee: Apple Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Cupertino
- Agency: Meyertons Hood Kivlin Kowert and Goetzel PC
- Agent Jeffrey C. Hood; Brian E. Moore
- Main IPC: H04W76/14
- IPC: H04W76/14 ; H04W8/00 ; H04W84/12 ; H04W88/04

Abstract:
In embodiments, one or more wireless stations operate to configure direct communication with neighboring mobile stations, i.e., communication between the mobile stations without utilizing an intermediate access point. Configuration of NAN includes mapping of NAN clusters and multi-hop data routing within a NAN cluster. A wireless device may transmit a subscribe service discovery frame (SDF) to one or more neighboring wireless devices and receive a respective publish SDF from the one or more wireless devices, the respective publish SDF including respective wireless device information. The wireless device may maintain a data structure comprising the respective wireless device information. In some embodiments, the wireless device information may include an address, hop count, and/or service indications, e.g., for data routing and/or service discovery.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170055261A1 Neighbor Awareness Networking Tree Mapping Public/Granted day:2017-02-23
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