Method for finding instrument for wi-fi direct P2P (peer to peer) communication and apparatus therefor

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9736766-B2
Application number	US-201414767060-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Feb 21, 2014
Priority date	Feb 21, 2013
Publication date	Aug 15, 2017
Grant date	Aug 15, 2017

Abstract

The present invention relates to a method for performing communication between terminals (D2D). Specifically, the method is characterized in that when a terminal communicating with another terminal is to perform an additional communication with yet another terminal, the channel sequence of the communicating terminal is determined, and one of the two terminals communicating with each other is defined as the channel synchronization reference terminal performing synchronization.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method of performing device discovery in a wireless communications system supporting Wi-Fi Direct, the method comprising:
scanning all available channels by a first device;
transmitting a probe request message by the first device to a second device;
and receiving a probe response message from the second device in response to the probe request message,
wherein the first device is configured to transmit the probe request message in a search mode (search state) and receive the probe request message in a listen mode (listen state),
wherein a communication channel is configured according to every specific application when the first device operates in the search mode,
and wherein an operation time of the first device operating in the listen mode is determined based on an application of a Wi-Fi Direct service (WFDS) to be used by the first device with the second device.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the operation time of the first device operating in the listen mode, when the application is related to a service with a number of devices that is equal to or less than a prescribed number of devices, is configured to be longer than the operation time of the first device operating in the listen mode when the application is related to a service with a number of devices exceeding the prescribed number of devices.

3. The method of claim 2 , wherein the service with a number of devices equal to or less than the prescribed number of devices comprises a data transfer service and a multimedia streaming service.

4. The method of claim 2 , wherein the service with a number of devices exceeding the prescribed number of devices comprises an advertisement and a social network service (SNS).

5. The method of claim 1 , wherein a minimum standby time, is a time from the transmission of the probe request message to the reception of the probe response message by the first device, and wherein the minimum standby time for an application related to a service with a number of devices equal to or less than a prescribed number of devices is configured to be shorter than the minimum standby time for an application related to a service with a number of devices that exceeds the prescribed number of devices.

6. The method of claim 1 , wherein an amount of time for scanning all available channels by the first device, when the application is related to a service with a number of devices equal to or less than a prescribed number of devices is configured to be longer than the amount of time for scanning when the application is related to a service with a number of devices exceeding the prescribed number of devices.

7. The method of claim 1 , wherein the probe request message corresponds to a message transmitted by the first device operating in the search mode and wherein the probe response message corresponds to a message received by the first device while the second device is operating in the listen mode.

8. The method of claim 1 , wherein a scheme of transmitting the probe request message, which is transmitted by the first device, corresponds to one selected from the group consisting of a unicast transmission scheme, a multicast transmission scheme and a broadcast transmission scheme.

9. The method of claim 1 , wherein the Wi-Fi Direct service comprises at least one selected from the group consisting of a send service, a play service, a print service and a display service.

10. A method of performing device discovery in a wireless communication system supporting Wi-Fi Direct, the method comprising:
receiving a probe request message received by a second device from a first device;
and transmitting a probe response message to the first device in response to the probe request message,
wherein the second device is configured to transmit the probe request message in a search mode (search state) and receive the probe request message from a different device in a listen mode (listen state),
wherein a communication channel is configured according to every specific application when the first device operates in the search mode, and
wherein an operation time of the second device operating in the listen mode is determined based on an application of a Wi-Fi Direct service (WFDS) to be used by the second device with the first device.

11. A first device performing device discovery in a wireless communication system supporting Wi-Fi Direct, comprising:
a transceiver;
and a processor, that:
controls the first device to scan all available channels, and controls the transceiver to transmit a probe request message to a second device and to receive a probe response message from the second device in response to the probe request message,
wherein the first device is configured to transmit transmits a the probe request message in a search mode (search state) and receive the probe request message from a different device in a listen mode (listen state),
wherein a communication channel is configured according to every specific application when the first device operates in the search mode, and wherein an operation time of the first device operating in the listen mode is determined based on an application of a Wi-Fi Direct service (WFDS) to be used by the first device with the second device.

Assignees

• Lg Electronics Inc

Inventors

• Kim Suhwook
• Chun Jinyoung
• Cho Hangyu

Classifications

• H04W76/14

  Direct-mode setup · CPC title

• H04W84/12

  WLAN [Wireless Local Area Networks] · CPC title

• H04W8/005

  Discovery of network devices, e.g. terminals · CPC title

• H04W48/16 Primary

  Discovering, processing access restriction or access information · CPC title

• H04W76/023

  Electricity · mapped topic