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Date of Patent:
Oct. 14, 2014

Filed:

Aug. 25, 2010
Applicants:

Mohammad Hossein Taghavi Nasrabadi, San Diego, CA (US);

Avinash Jain, San Diego, CA (US);

Hemanth Sampath, San Diego, CA (US);

Santosh Paul Abraham, San Diego, CA (US);

Inventors:

Mohammad Hossein Taghavi Nasrabadi, San Diego, CA (US);

Avinash Jain, San Diego, CA (US);

Hemanth Sampath, San Diego, CA (US);

Santosh Paul Abraham, San Diego, CA (US);

Assignee:

QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 1/00 (2006.01); H04B 1/7183 (2011.01); H04B 1/707 (2011.01); H04J 13/00 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04B 1/707 (2013.01); H04B 1/7183 (2013.01); H04J 13/0014 (2013.01); H04B 2201/70701 (2013.01);
Abstract

Various methods and apparatuses for beacon transmission in an ad-hoc peer-to-peer network are disclosed. In one aspect, an apparatus for communication is disclosed, the apparatus comprising a processing system configured to determine device-independent beacon data, determine device-dependent beacon data, and to spread the device-dependent beacon data using one or more spreading codes and a transmitter configured to transmit one or more beacons during a beacon transmission period, wherein each beacon comprises the device-independent beacon data and the spread device-dependent beacon data.


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