Device-to-device communication setup using proximity services
AssigneeRenesas Mobile Corporation
InventorsSami-Jukka HAKOLA, Samuli TURTINEN, Timo Kalevi KOSKELA
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Abstract
A communications method for facilitating peer discovery, and thereby facilitating peer-to-peer communications in a mobile communications network, comprises: acquiring, by a user equipment capable of performing peer-to-peer, P2P, proximity services, a link-local interface identifier from a node of a network. The link-local interface identifier is unique within the network, and the method further comprises establishing a link-local domain with at least one other user equipment in the network at least partly on the basis of the acquired link-local interface identifier.
Claims17
A method for enabling peer discovery in a mobile communications network, comprising:
- detecting, by a node of a network, that a user equipment connected to the network is capable of performing peer-to-peer (P2P) proximity services;
- determining a link-local interface identifier to be assigned to the detected user equipment, wherein the determined link-local interface identifier is unique within the network;
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- causing an indication of the assigned link-local interface identifier to the detected user equipment in order to enable the user equipment to establish a link-local domain with at least one other user equipment in the network.
A method for enabling P2P communications in a mobile communications network, comprising:
- acquiring, by a user equipment capable of performing P2P proximity services, a link-local interface identifier from a node of a network, wherein the link-local interface identifier is unique within the network;
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- establishing a link-local domain with at least one other user equipment in the network at least partly on the basis of the acquired link-local interface identifier.
A method for enabling P2P communications in a mobile communications network, comprising:
- detecting, by a user equipment capable of performing P2P proximity services, a link-local P2P discovery message sent by another user equipment, wherein the link-local P2P discovery message is at least partly based on an application layer discovery protocol;
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- detecting a link-local interface identifier included in the link-local P2P discovery message, wherein the link-local interface identifier is unique within a serving network.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.