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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 20, 2016
Filed:
Oct. 10, 2014
Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., Shenzhen, CN;
Weihua Zhou, Shenzhen, CN;
Xiaobo Wu, Shanghai, CN;
Yali Guo, Shenzhen, CN;
Wanqiang Zhang, Beijing, CN;
Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., Shenzhen, CN;
Abstract
A device discovery method includes: enabling, by a first device, a device-to-device monitoring and broadcasting function; after the first device detects broadcast information of a second device, reporting the broadcast information of the second device and a user identifier of a target user to a network side, requesting that the network side obtains, according to the broadcast information of the second device, an identifier of a user that logs in to the second device, and determines whether the identifier of the user that logs in to the second device is the user identifier of the target user; and receiving a result of the determining returned by the network side, and confirming, by the first device according to the result of the determining, whether a device to which the target user logs in falls within a preset distance from the first device.