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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:
Apr. 04, 2017

Filed:

Jul. 20, 2015
Applicant:

Qualcomm Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);

Inventors:

Kirankumar Bhoja Anchan, San Diego, CA (US);

Sandeep Sharma, San Diego, CA (US);

Vijay Anandrao Suryavanshi, San Diego, CA (US);

Assignee:

QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 4/08 (2009.01); H04L 29/08 (2006.01); H04W 76/02 (2009.01); H04W 8/00 (2009.01); H04W 4/04 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 67/1051 (2013.01); H04L 67/104 (2013.01); H04L 67/1093 (2013.01); H04W 4/043 (2013.01); H04W 8/005 (2013.01); H04W 76/023 (2013.01);
Abstract

In an embodiment, a P2P device discovers other P2P devices that belong to a P2P group. The P2P device calculates a reachability vector that indicates each discovered P2P device within a threshold number of P2P hops. The P2P device receives reachability vector(s) for each proximate P2P device in a set of proximate P2P devices discovered via the P2P discovery procedure. The P2P device ranks the P2P device and each proximate P2P device in the set of proximate P2P devices based on the calculated and received reachability vectors. The P2P device identifies a leader (e.g., the P2P device itself and/or one or more of the other P2P devices) that is responsible for performing a floor arbitration function for a P2P session from the ranked P2P devices based on the rankings, and participates in the P2P session by exchanging media in accordance with the floor arbitration function performed by the leader.


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