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Date of Patent:
Dec. 02, 2014

Filed:

Dec. 18, 2012
Applicant:

Ntt Docomo, Inc., Tokyo, JP;

Inventors:

Xin Xia, Beijing, CN;

Yongsheng Zhang, Beijing, CN;

Assignee:

NTT DoCoMo, Inc., Tokyo, JP;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01R 31/08 (2006.01); H04W 72/04 (2009.01); H04W 4/02 (2009.01); H04W 40/32 (2009.01); H04W 8/00 (2009.01); H04W 76/02 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 72/04 (2013.01); H04W 4/023 (2013.01); H04W 40/32 (2013.01); H04W 8/005 (2013.01); H04W 76/02 (2013.01);
Abstract

Finding and selecting partners in a MiAN Cluster system is accomplished by a slave, a pairing request for requesting a pairing with a master to a server; receiving, by the slave, proximity information returned from the server based on the pairing request, the proximity information including information of working channels of a proximity interface of the master of the first kind, the master of the first kind being a master determined by the server according to the first geographical location and a geographical location of a master of the second kind previously obtained and supporting a clustering function where a distance between it and the slave meets a predetermined threshold; performing, by the slave, search on the corresponding channels according to the proximity information, and establishing a communication connection with the proximity interface of the master when a master is found.


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