Samsung patents method to find devices using low-power network signals
This patent describes a way for electronic devices to advertise their presence using a low-power networking standard called Neighbor Awareness Networking (NAN). By embedding specific data into these signals, the device allows other nearby gadgets to discover it without fully activating a more power-hungry Peer-to-Peer (P2P) connection engine.
In the filing’s own words
An electronic device includes: a communication interface; and at least one processor configured to: maintain an inactivated state of a Peer-to-Peer (P2P) engine, and control a Neighbor Awareness Networking (NAN) engine in an activated state, generate sync complex data for a terminal device to search for the electronic device, by adding P2P Information Element (IE) data to sync beacon data, and control the communication interface to output the sync complex data using a predetermined cycle in a predetermined discovery window section through a discovery window channel.
What exactly they claim (claim 1)
1. An electronic device comprising: a communication interface; memory storing instructions; and at least one processor, wherein the instructions, when executed by the at least one processor individually or collectively, cause the electronic device to: maintain an inactivated state of a Peer-to-Peer (P2P) engine, and control a Neighbor Awareness Networking (NAN) engine in an activated state, generate sync complex data for a terminal device to search for the electronic device, by adding P2P Information Element (IE) data to sync beacon data, control the communication interface to output the sync complex data using a predetermined cycle in a predetermined discovery window section through a discovery window channel, based on receiving, from the terminal device through the communication interface, a NAN service request, perform NAN connection with the terminal device using the NAN engine, and based on receiving, from the terminal device through the communication interface, a P2P service request, activate the P2P engine and perform P2P connection with the terminal device using the P2P engine.
Facts
- Company
- Samsung (SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.)
- Official title
- Electronic device supporting nan connection and P2P connection, terminal device and controlling method therefor
- Patent number
- US12750763B2
- Application number
- 18238936
- Filed
- Aug 28, 2023
- Granted
- Sep 29, 2026
- Inventors
- 1
- Claims
- 12
Classified under
H04W 40/246 Electricity & electronicsH04W 8/005 Electricity & electronicsMore from Samsung in Networks & wireless
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Summaries are simplified from the filing’s own abstract and first claim. A patent filing is not a product announcement.
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