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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 30, 2016
Filed:
Jun. 20, 2013
Applicant:
Qualcomm Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);
Inventors:
J. Rodney Walton, Carlisle, MA (US);
John W. Ketchum, Harvard, MA (US);
Assignee:
QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 17/30 (2006.01); H04W 48/16 (2009.01); H04W 8/00 (2009.01); H04W 84/18 (2009.01); H04L 29/08 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 48/16 (2013.01); H04L 67/104 (2013.01); H04L 67/1068 (2013.01); H04L 67/16 (2013.01); H04W 8/005 (2013.01); H04W 84/18 (2013.01);
Abstract
Certain embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a method for improving the effective coverage of nodes within a peer-to-peer (P2P) wireless network. Collection of nodes of the P2P network can have a larger aggregate coverage footprint than any given single node. This inherent multi-site property of P2P wireless networks can be exploited to provide each node with benefits of multi-user diversity, thus improving discovery of devices in the P2P network.