Method and system for explicit exclusion, inclusion and ranking of discovery and connectivity mechanisms

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2016165376-A1
Application number	US-201514671405-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Mar 27, 2015
Priority date	Dec 5, 2014
Publication date	Jun 9, 2016
Grant date	—

Abstract

The disclosure relates to a method, apparatus and system to enable exclusion, inclusion and ranking of discovery and connectivity mechanisms for services using Application Services Platform (ASP). In on embodiment, the disclosure provides an interface to allow services to exclude some discovery and connectivity mechanisms from and ASP2 session setup. The proposed approach can be used or extended for any other out-of-band Wi-Fi/WiGig discovery, connectivity and security mechanism.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1 . A method comprising:
presenting, by a logic implemented at a MAC layer processor, a user interface during presentation of a first application services platform (ASP) at a first mobile device, wherein the first ASP of the first mobile device provides one of a plurality of configurable options for selecting one of discovery, connectivity and/or network type; receiving, via the user interface, a selection indication corresponding to selection of one of the configurable options to indicate a discovery, connectivity and/or network option; and applying, by the logic, the selected discovery, connectivity and/or network option to the mobile device.

2 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the user interface configures an ASP2 communication session between the first mobile device and a second mobile device.

3 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the user interface configures the first mobile device to select one or more of connectivity, topology and network connection modes.

4 . The method of claim 3 , further comprising selecting one or more of discovery, connection and network mode to accommodate an underlying application or services.

5 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the selection indication includes all available configurable options for one or more of discovery, connectivity, network or security modes.

6 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the selection indication excludes all available configurable options and requires an indicia expressly selecting one or more modes associated with one or more of discovery, connectivity, network or security modes.

7 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the selection indication comprises a preference ranking for each available configurable options for one or more of discovery, connectivity, network or security modes.

8 . The method of claim 7 , further comprising providing a two-byte bitmap to indicate preference ranking.

9 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the selection indication comprises a bitmap to select one or more available configurable options for discovery, connectivity, network or security modes.

10 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the logic is implemented at an operation system (OS).

11 . A tangible machine-readable non-transitory storage medium that contains instructions, which when executed by one or more processors result in performing operations comprising:
presenting, by a logic implemented at a MAC layer processor, a user interface during presentation of a first application services platform (ASP) at a first mobile device, wherein the first ASP of the first mobile device provides one of a plurality of configurable options for selecting one of discovery, connectivity and/or network type; receiving, via the user interface, a selection indication corresponding to selection of one of the configurable options to indicate a discovery, connectivity and/or network option; and applying, by the logic, the selected discovery, connectivity and/or network option to the mobile device.

12 . The tangible machine-readable non-transitory storage medium of claim 11 , wherein the instructions further cause the user interface to configure an ASP2 communication session between the first mobile device and a second mobile device.

13 . The tangible machine-readable non-transitory storage medium of claim 11 , wherein the instructions further cause the user interface to configure the first mobile device to select one or more of connectivity, topology and network connection modes.

14 . The tangible machine-readable non-transitory storage medium of claim 13 , further comprising selecting one or more of discovery, connection and network mode to accommodate an underlying application or services.

15 . The tangible machine-readable non-transitory storage medium of claim 11 , wherein the selection indication includes all available configurable options for one or more of discovery, connectivity, network or security modes.

16 . The tangible machine-readable non-transitory storage medium of claim 11 , wherein the selection indication excludes all available configurable options and requires an indicia expressly selecting one or more modes associated with one or more of discovery, connectivity, network or security modes.

17 . The tangible machine-readable non-transitory storage medium of claim 11 , wherein the selection indication comprises a preference ranking for each available configurable options for one or more of discovery, connectivity, network or security modes.

18 . The tangible machine-readable non-transitory storage medium of claim 17 , further comprising providing a two-byte bitmap to indicate preference ranking.

19 . The tangible machine-readable non-transitory storage medium of claim 11 , wherein the selection indication comprises a bitmap to select one or more available configurable options for discovery, connectivity, network or security modes.

20 . An apparatus, comprising: a processor circuitry and a memory circuitry to communicate with the processor circuitry, the memory circuitry to contain a set of instructions to cause the processor circuitry to:
present a user interface during presentation of a first application services platform (ASP) at a first mobile device, wherein the first ASP of the first mobile device provides one of a plurality of configurable options for selecting one of discovery, connectivity and/or network type; receive, via the user interface, a selection indication corresponding to selection of one of the configurable options to indicate a discovery, connectivity and/or network option; and apply, by the logic, the selected discovery, connectivity and/or network option to the mobile device.

21 . The apparatus of claim 20 , wherein the processor circuitry is a logic implemented at a MAC layer processor or at the operating system (OS).

22 . The apparatus of claim 20 , wherein the set of instructions further cause the processor circuitry to configure an ASP2 communication session between the first mobile device and a second mobile device.

23 . The apparatus of claim 20 , wherein the set of instructions further cause the processor circuitry to configure the first mobile device to select one or more of connectivity, topology and network connection modes.

24 . The apparatus of claim 23 , wherein the selection includes all available configurable options for one or more of discovery, connectivity, network or security modes.

25 . The apparatus of claim 23 , wherein the selection excludes all available configurable options and requires an indication to expressly selecting one or more modes associated with one or more of discovery, connectivity, network or security modes.

27 . The apparatus of claim 23 , wherein the selection indication comprises a preference ranking for each available configurable options for one or more of discovery, connectivity, network or security modes.

28 . The apparatus of claim 20 , wherein the processor circuitry is a logic configured to provide a two-byte bitmap to indicate preference ranking.

Assignees

• Intel Corp

Inventors

• Qi Emily H
• Cordeiro Carlos
• Mccall David J

Classifications

• H04W4/003 Primary

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04L67/16

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04W76/023

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04L67/51

  Discovery or management thereof, e.g. service location protocol [SLP] or web services · CPC title

• H04W84/12

  WLAN [Wireless Local Area Networks] · CPC title