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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 05, 2017
Filed:
Feb. 09, 2017
Acer Incorporated, New Taipei, TW;
Po-Hsiang Wang, New Taipei, TW;
Yi-Wen Liu, New Taipei, TW;
Hao-Ting Chang, New Taipei, TW;
Wen-Ping Chang, New Taipei, TW;
Acer Incorporated, New Taipei, TW;
Abstract
A method, a system and an electronic apparatus for searching nearby apparatuses are proposed. The method includes: searching at least one first apparatus belonging to a first subnet which the electronic apparatus belongs to, and accordingly generating a first list; scanning at least one access point (AP) near the electronic apparatus, and accordingly generating a first AP list; uploading the first AP list to a server, and receiving a second list from the server, where the second list includes at least one second apparatus, and a similarity between a second AP list of each second apparatus and the first AP list is higher than a predetermined threshold; and uniting the first list and the second list to generate a pairing list including at least one apparatus to be paired.