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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:
Mar. 27, 2018

Filed:

Feb. 21, 2014
Applicant:

Panasonic Corporation, Osaka, JP;

Inventors:

Ken Naka, Tokyo, JP;

Yoshio Urabe, Nara, JP;

Masataka Irie, Kanagawa, JP;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 8/00 (2009.01); H04W 76/02 (2009.01); H04W 84/12 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 8/005 (2013.01); H04W 76/023 (2013.01); H04W 76/02 (2013.01); H04W 84/12 (2013.01);
Abstract

The present disclosure provides such wireless communication apparatuses that when the wireless communication apparatuses perform direct communication using WiGig, one of the wireless communication apparatuses can transmit an action frame. Wireless communication apparatusis a wireless communication apparatus that performs communication using WiGig and that includes: device searching sectionthat searches for other wireless communication apparatuses using a search signal; medium management sectionthat transmits, when a communication peer of wireless communication apparatusis designated from among the found other wireless communication apparatuses, a temporary beacon including medium schedule information; and group formation sectionthat transmits an action frame to form a group with the designated other wireless communication apparatus after transmission of the temporary beacon.


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