Method, Apparatus and System for Finding and Selecting Partners

A slave MiAN, comprising:

• a pairing requesting unit, configured to send a pairing request for requesting a pairing with a master MiAN to a server, the pairing request carrying information of a first geographical location of the slave MiAN;
• a proximity information receiving unit, configured to receive proximity information returned from the server based on the pairing request, the proximity information including information of working channels of a Proximity Interface of a master MiAN of the first kind, the master MiAN of the first kind being a master MiAN determined by the server according to the first geographical location and a geographical location of a master MiAN of the second kind previously obtained and supporting a clustering function where a distance between it and the slave MiAN meets a predetermined threshold;
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• a pairing unit, configured to perform search on a corresponding channel based on the proximity information and establish a communication connection with the Proximity Interface of a master MiAN when the master MiAN is found.

A server, comprising:

• a receiving unit, configured to receive from a slave MiAN a pairing request for requesting a pairing with a master MiAN, the pairing request carrying information of a first geographical location of the slave MiAN;
• a determining unit, configured to determine a master MiAN of the first kind according to the first geographical location and a geographical location of a master MiAN of the second kind previously obtained and supporting a clustering function where a distance between it and the slave MiAN meets a predetermined threshold;
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• a responding unit, configured to return proximity information to the slave MiAN, the proximity information including information of working channels of a Proximity Interface of the master MiAN of the first kind, so that the slave MiAN searches the master MiAN on a corresponding channel and establishes a communication connection between the proximity interfaces of the slave MiAN and a master MiAN when the master MiAN is found.

An MiAN cluster system, comprising a server, one or more master MiANs and one or more slave MiANs, each of the MiANs including a Proximity Interface for establishing a communication connection with the other MiANs, wherein

• the server, configured to receive a pairing request from the slave MiAN, determine a master MiAN of the first kind according to a first geographical location of the slave MiAN and a geographical location of a master MiAN of the second kind previously obtained and supporting a clustering function where a distance between it and the slave MiAN meets a predetermined threshold, and return proximity information to the slave MiAN;
• the slave MiAN, configured to send a pairing request for requesting a pairing with the master MiAN to the server, the pairing request including information of a first geographical location of the slave MiAN receive the proximity information returned from the server based on the pairing request, the proximity information including information of the working channels of a Proximity Interface of the master MiAN of the first kind, perform search on a corresponding channel based on the proximity information, and establish a communication connection with the Proximity Interface of a master MiAN when the master MiAN is found;
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• the master MiAN, configured to, when supporting a clustering function, perform registration with the server, and send the information of its geographical location and the working channels to the server during the registration.