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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 06, 2016
Filed:
Jan. 17, 2014
General Motors Llc, Detroit, MI (US);
GM Global Technology Operations Llc, Detroit, MI (US);
Lakshmi Thanayankizil, Rochester Hills, MI (US);
Fan Bai, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
David P. Pop, Garden City, MI (US);
GM Global Technology Operations LLC, Detroit, MI (US);
General Motors LLC, Detroit, MI (US);
Abstract
A method of managing short-range wireless links between a primary wireless device and a plurality of secondary wireless devices includes initiating a short-range wireless link between the primary wireless device and a secondary wireless device configured to communicate using a traditional Wi-Fi protocol; providing the short-range wireless link between the primary wireless device and the secondary wireless device using a Wi-Fi direct protocol, wherein the primary wireless device acts as a group owner and the secondary wireless device acts as a group member; detecting the presence of an additional secondary wireless device, acting as a server, using the primary wireless device; ending use of the Wi-Fi direct protocol over the short-range wireless link between the primary wireless device and the secondary wireless device; and beginning use of the traditional Wi-Fi protocol over the short-range wireless link between the primary wireless device and the secondary wireless device.