Patent application number | Description | Published |
20150049671 | ASSOCIATION LIMIT IN RELAY NETWORK - A method, an apparatus, and a computer program product for wireless communication are provided. In aspect, a first apparatus receives from a second apparatus information related to an ability of the second apparatus to associate with other apparatuses, and limits associations at the first apparatus based on the information. In another aspect, the first apparatus associates with a second apparatus, and transmits to the second apparatus information that indicates a number of desirable associations at the second apparatus. | 02-19-2015 |
20150071121 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR CONCURRENT SERVICE DISCOVERY AND MINIMUM SPANNING TREE FORMATION FOR SERVICE DELIVERY - Systems, methods, and devices for wireless service delivery are described herein. In some aspects, a method for wireless service deliver may include transmitting, by a first wireless node, and receiving, from each of a plurality of wireless nodes, a service discovery message for a service. The method may further include selecting one of the plurality of wireless nodes based on a link quality metric associated with each of the plurality of wireless nodes. The method may additionally include establishing a communication pathway to a provider of the service through a link to the selected wireless node. | 03-12-2015 |
20150081840 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MULTIHOP SERVICE DISCOVERY WITH MEMBER STATION PROXY SERVICE ADVERTISEMENTS - Systems and methods for multi-hop service discovery within a mobile device cluster are disclosed. A seeker station may be seeking or may have found a desired service available from a provider station. The seeker station may receive the service announcement from the provider station, and become a proxy station, expanding the service area of the provider station. The proxy station may selectively transmit services and advertisements for services on behalf of the provider station based on restrictions placed on selection as a proxy station. Restrictions or conditions may be placed on the proxy station limiting the number of stations that may become proxy stations, limiting traffic within the cluster. Some restrictions may require a proxy station to be a member of the cluster or a member of a group within the cluster. Selection as a proxy station and frequency of transmission of service announcements by proxy stations may also be conditioned on various specific parameters or combinations of parameters as specified by the provider station. | 03-19-2015 |
20150109961 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING A SERVICE MESH - Systems and methods for receiving service data from a data path are disclosed. In one aspect, a method includes receiving a message from a neighbor aware network, and decoding the message to determine a communication channel used to provide a service, and an indicator of a paging window for the communication channel. In some aspects, the indicator of the paging window is based on synchronization information for a second communication channel. | 04-23-2015 |
20150109981 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ESTABLISHING SYNCHRONIZATION ACROSS MULTIPLE NETWORKS AND PARTICIPATING STAs VIA OPERATIONS ON A KNOWN COMMON CHANNEL - Systems and methods for establishing synchronized operations on a data delivery network are disclosed. In one aspect, a method includes receiving synchronization information for a neighbor aware network and for a second channel associated with a data delivery network (including a paging window for one of the networks), and receiving service data on the data delivery channels while maintaining synchronization on all data delivery channels using only the synchronization information from the neighbor aware network channel. The synchronization allows devices to increase efficiency by allowing them to sleep, wake-up, send or store data traffic, and receive or transmit indicators of stored data traffic, among other actions, in a coordinated manner such that the devices are awake at the same specified times (e.g., paging windows). Devices may then stay awake to receive or transmit traffic or sleep to conserve power if there is no traffic to send or receive. | 04-23-2015 |
20150124695 | SYSTEMS, METHODS AND DEVICES FOR MODIFYING RELAY OPERATION OF A WIRELESS DEVICE - Systems, methods and devices for modifying relay operation of a wireless device are disclosed. In one aspect an apparatus for modifying relay operation of a wireless node comprises a processing system configured to generate a message requesting the wireless node to enable access point operation of the wireless node or instructing the wireless node to disable the access point operation of the wireless node. The message comprises a relay activation information element. The message comprises one or more of a field indicating a time for the wireless node to enable the access point operation or disable the access point operation and a field indicating whether the message is requesting the wireless node to enable the access point operation or instructing the wireless node to disable the access point operation. | 05-07-2015 |
20150127949 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INTEGRATED MESH AUTHENTICATION AND ASSOCIATION - Systems and methods for more efficient mesh associations are disclosed. In some aspects, a non-member device may join a mesh network via a four way message exchange with any member device of the mesh network. The four way message exchange between the mesh member device and the non-member device provides for authentication and association between the two devices. As a result of the four way message exchange, a common group key is provided to the non-member device. The common group key is utilized by all mesh member devices to encrypt and decrypt group addressed mesh messages exchanged between any of the mesh member devices. Association identifiers for each of the two devices are also provided during the exchange. PHY/MAC capabilities may also be exchanged. In some aspects, IP address assignment for the two devices may also be accomplished during the four way message handshake. | 05-07-2015 |
20150245202 | SECURE DISTRIBUTION OF A COMMON NETWORK KEY IN A WIRELESS NETWORK - Methods, devices, and systems are described to enable generating and securely distributing a common network key in a wireless network. For example, instead of each station of the wireless network generating a station-specific group network key, a particular station may generate and securely transmit a common network key to be used by multiple stations in the wireless network to decrypt group messages from multiple stations in the wireless network. | 08-27-2015 |