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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 03, 2016
Filed:
Dec. 27, 2013
Samsung Sds Co., Ltd., Seoul, KR;
Yun Kyoung Moon, Seoul, KR;
Hee Tae Yoon, Seoul, KR;
Seong Hun Shin, Seoul, KR;
Shin Lee, Seoul, KR;
Young Kwang Kim, Seoul, KR;
SAMSUNG SDS CO., LTD., Seoul, KR;
Abstract
There is provided a method of switching from multipoint communication to point-to-point communication while a device performs the multipoint communication with a plurality of participant devices. The method comprises: sharing, by the device, peer-to-peer (P2P) connection information of the device and P2P connection information of each of the plurality of participant devices, with the plurality of participant devices; and switching by the device, from the multipoint communication to the point-to-point communication using the P2P connection information of remaining participant devices of the plurality of participant devices in the multipoint communication when a total number of the remaining participant devices of the multipoint communication decreases to two.