Device and method for setting a group owner intent value based on a comparison of group owner intent values
AssigneeLG Electronics Inc.
InventorsJungwoo Kim, Jinho Kim, Suhwook Kim
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Abstract
A device and method for performing inter-device communication are disclosed. An inter-device communication method of a first device includes searching for a second device supporting inter-device communication, receiving network information from the searched second device, and determining that one of the first and second devices is a group owner based on the received network information of the second device and network information of the first device. The network information includes at least one selected from among type information indicating a server device or a client device, network support information, network necessity information, and network setting information.
Claims10
An inter-device communication method performed at a first device comprising:
- searching for a second device supporting inter-device communication;
- receiving second network information and a second group owner intent value from the searched second device;
- determining that one of the first and second devices is a group owner based on the received second network information and first network information of the first device and the other one of the first and second devices is a group client, wherein each of the first and second network information comprises at least one of type information indicating a server device or a client device, network support information, network necessity information, or network setting information;
- setting a first group owner intent value of the first device to be greater than the second group owner intent value when the first device is determined as the group owner;
- and
- setting the first group owner intent value to be less than the second group owner intent value when the first device is determined as the group client.
A first device for performing inter-device communication comprising:
- a receiver configured to search for a second device supporting inter-device communication and to receive second network information and a group owner intent value from the searched second device;
- and
- a processor configured to:
- determine that one of the first and second devices is a group owner based on the received second network information and first network information of the first device and the other one of the first and second devices is a group client, wherein each of the first and second network information comprises at least one of type information indicating a server device or a client device, network support information, network necessity information, or network setting information;
- set a first group owner intent value of the first device to be greater than the second group owner intent value when the first device is determined as the croup owner;
- and
- set the first group owner intent value to be less than the second group owner intent value when the first device is determined as the group client.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.