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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Nov. 01, 2016

Filed:

Nov. 14, 2012
Applicant:

Lg Electronics Inc., Seoul, KR;

Inventors:

Jaehyung Song, Seoul, KR;

Kyungchul Kwak, Seoul, KR;

Suhwook Kim, Seoul, KR;

Inhwan Choi, Seoul, KR;

Wongyu Song, Seoul, KR;

Assignee:

LG ELECTRONICS INC., Seoul, KR;

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 48/16 (2009.01); H04W 8/00 (2009.01); H04L 29/08 (2006.01); H04W 4/08 (2009.01); H04W 84/12 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 48/16 (2013.01); H04L 67/16 (2013.01); H04W 4/08 (2013.01); H04W 8/005 (2013.01); H04W 84/12 (2013.01);
Abstract

The present invention relates to a method and device that may determine a service provided by a WiFi device to be connected before connecting a WiFi direct network. According to at least one embodiment of the present invention, if a service for an owner device of a wireless communication group is discovered for in the process of discovering for a service for the wireless communication group, there is the advantage that is possible to more conveniently perform the service discovery process by obtaining supported service information on each device belonging to the group. In addition, if there is a currently unavailable service in the process of discovering for the service for the wireless communication group, there is the advantage that it is possible to provide information highly necessary for a user to determine network establishment by further providing information on the unavailable service.


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