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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 29, 2016
Filed:
Feb. 08, 2013
Qualcomm Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);
Santosh Paul Abraham, San Diego, CA (US);
George Cherian, San Diego, CA (US);
Hemanth Sampath, San Diego, CA (US);
Rolf De Vegt, San Francisco, CA (US);
Simone Merlin, San Diego, CA (US);
Alireza Raissinia, Monte Sereno, CA (US);
Vinay Sridhara, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Other;
Abstract
Systems and methods of limiting wireless discovery range. A transmitting device may limit wireless discovery range by adjusting one or more transmission attributes of a discovery message, measuring inter-device distance based on range determination messages, or any combination thereof. A receiving device may limit wireless discovery range based on one or more attributes of a received discovery message, measuring inter-device distance based on range determination messages, or any combination thereof. Discovery messages may include a range adaptation bit indicating whether range adaptation is to be performed.