US 2014/0177613 A1 · RESILIENT PEER NETWORK WITH 802.11 TECHNOLOGY

Abstract

A Wi-Fi Direct Group Owner stores network parameters needed for proper operation of a peer-to-peer network. These include the network name and identifier, the power save schedule, the security settings, MAC address of all of the group members, etc. To reduce the need for a single Group Owner, this information is distributed. As each new device is added to the network, all of these parameters are passed via IEEE 802.11 data packets from the device acting as the Group Owner to the new peer device. This way, the new peer device has all of the information about the group at the time that it joins. Any device in the Resilient Peer Network can temporarily take on the role of a traditional Wi-Fi Direct Group Owner (admission control). Selection of which peer will act as a Group Owner will depend on a user action or network event.

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Dependent claims

A resilient peer network comprising:

at least two communication devices connected to form a peer-to-peer group;
an initial acting group owner (GO), the initial acting group owner comprising any of the at least two communication devices, the initial acting group owner obtaining, storing, managing and distributing network parameters to each of the at least two communication devices;
and
one or more new communication devices requesting admittance to the peer-to-peer group, the one or more new communication devices receiving the network parameters by a temporary acting group owner selected from any of the at least two communication devices connected to form a peer-to-peer group.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Resilient peer network with 802.11 technology

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Resilient peer network with 802.11 technology

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Abstract

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