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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 09, 2017
Filed:
Dec. 31, 2015
Applicant:
Acer Incorporated, New Taipei, TW;
Inventor:
Ming-Dao Chuang, New Taipei, TW;
Assignee:
ACER INCORPORATED, New Taipei, TW;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04M 1/66 (2006.01); H04W 8/00 (2009.01); H04W 4/08 (2009.01); H04W 12/08 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 8/005 (2013.01); H04W 4/08 (2013.01); H04W 12/08 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method for grouping user equipments (UEs) in proximity services restricted discovery, used in a communications system, including: broadcasting, by a first user equipment (UE), a UE discovered signal for being discovered, wherein the UE discovered signal includes a first group code corresponding to the first UE; receiving, by a second UE, the UE discovered signal and comparing the first group code with a second group code corresponding to the second UE; and transmitting, by the second UE, a comparing report to a network when the first group code and the second group code are the same.