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US 2017/0289741 A1Published application
Bluetooth assisted nan cluster discovery
AssigneeIntel Corporation
InventorsPO-KAI HUANG, ROBERT STACEY, CARLOS CORDEIRO, EMILY H. QI
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Abstract
Disclosed herein are techniques to enable discovery of a NAN cluster using low-power communication. According to such techniques, a NAN discovery beacon including information indicative of a schedule for communication using a first radio is transmitted using a second radio that utilizes a lower amount of power relative to the first radio.
Claims26
1-25. (canceled)
An apparatus, comprising:
- processing circuitry;
- memory storing instructions operable on the processing circuitry, the instructions, when executed, cause the processing circuitry to:
- generate a Bluetooth discovery frame for communication by a first radio, the Bluetooth discovery frame comprising neighbor aware networking (NAN) capability information to indicate service discovery is supported by a second radio in a NAN cluster;
- cause the first radio to communicate the Bluetooth discovery frame;
- and
- cause the second radio to communicate to perform the service discovery for services in the NAN cluster.
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A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium, comprising a plurality of instructions, that when executed, enable processing circuitry of an interface to:
- generate a Bluetooth discovery frame for communication by a first radio, the Bluetooth discovery frame comprising neighbor aware networking (NAN) capability information to indicate service discovery is supported by a second radio in a NAN cluster;
- cause the first radio to communicate the Bluetooth discovery frame;
- and
- cause the second radio to communicate to perform the service discovery for services in the NAN cluster.
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An apparatus, comprising:
- processing circuitry;
- memory storing instructions operable on the processing circuitry, the instructions, when executed, cause the processing circuitry to:
- receive a Bluetooth discovery frame by a first radio, the Bluetooth discovery frame comprising neighbor aware networking (NAN) capability information to indicate service discovery is supported in a NAN cluster;
- and
- cause a second radio to communicate to perform the service discovery for services in the NAN cluster.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.