Use of out-of-band signaling to facilitate Wi-Fi-Aware communication
Out-of-band signaling with BLE provides the Wi-Fi Aware cluster ID to devices, addressing latency and resource issues in Wi-Fi Aware communication by ensuring rapid and correct cluster joining.
DE112023006791T5Undetermined Publication Date: 2026-06-25GOOGLE LLC
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Patent Information
- Application Number
- DE112023006791P0
- Authority / Receiving Office
- DE · DE
- Patent Type
- Applications
- Current Assignee / Owner
- Priority Date
- 2023-08-16
- Filing Date
- 2023-08-16
- Publication Date
- 2026-06-25
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Abstract
Method and system for using out-of-band signaling to facilitate Wi-Fi-Aware communication (Neighbor Awareness Networking (NAN)) between a first device and a second device. The second device can wirelessly receive a non-NAN signaling message from the first device, such as a Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) signaling message, carrying a NAN cluster ID of a NAN cluster of which the first device is a member. In response, the second device can then automatically configure itself to be a member of the NAN cluster with that NAN cluster ID.Furthermore, after configuring itself accordingly, the second device can then use the NAN cluster ID as a basis to facilitate NAN communication with the first device, such as to determine that a NAN subscribe message matched to that cluster ID corresponds to a NAN publish message from the first device also matched to that cluster ID.
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