Meyertons Hood Kivlin Kowert & Goetzel, P.C.
Neighbor awareness networking datapath
In one set of embodiments, one or more client stations operate to configure Neighbor Awareness Networking (NAN)—direct communication with neighboring client stations, i.e., direct communication between the client stations without utilizing an intermediate access point. Embodiments of the disclosure relate to NAN datapath scheduling and NAN pre-datapath operation setup and scheduling. The NAN datapath embodiments described herein provide a mechanism through which devices can communicate and provide services. Aspects of the datapath development include datapath scheduling, including datapath setup and scheduling attributes, as well as pre-datapath operation triggering and scheduling. Scheduling may include determination of a type of datapath, including paging and synchronized datapaths. NAN data cluster base schedules may be scheduled as equal-sets or subsets of datapath schedules. The datapath model may be implemented for unicast and multicast communication between client stations.
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Daniel R. Yong Guoqing Oren Andreas Christiaan A. Tashbeeb Saravanan Su Khiong Anand Peter N. Lilach Lawrie
Borges Liu Li Shani Wolf Hartman Haque Balasubramaniyan Yong Rajagopalan Heerboth Zukerman Kurian