Method and apparatus for peer-2-peer Wi-Fi ranging using near field communication

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9198119-B2
Application number	US-201313785876-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 5, 2013
Priority date	Mar 5, 2013
Publication date	Nov 24, 2015
Grant date	Nov 24, 2015

Abstract

According to some aspects, a method includes communicating a request from a first device to a second device using near field communication (NFC). The request includes a preferred mode of wireless local area network (Wi-Fi) operation and state information of the first device. The method further includes receiving a reply at the first device, sent from the second device, including acceptance of the preferred mode of Wi-Fi operation. The method further includes communicating wireless information to establish the Wi-Fi communication link from the first device to the second device.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method comprising:
communicating, from a first device to a second device using near field communication (NFC), a request comprising a wireless local area network (Wi-Fi) ranging operation and first device state information;
receiving, at the first device from the second device, a reply comprising acceptance of the Wi-Fi ranging operation;
communicating, from the first device to the second device, wireless information to enable the Wi-Fi ranging operati…

Assignees

• Qualcomm Inc

Inventors

• Venkatraman Sai Pradeep
• Gao Weihua
• Sridhara Vinay
• Firouzabadi Sina

Classifications

• H04W48/16 Primary

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04W8/005 Primary

  Electricity · mapped topic