Patent ID: 11963093
Assignee: NERLANDESE ORGANISATIE VOOR TOEGEPAST-NATUURWETENSCHAPPELIJK ONDERZOEK TNO
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 0:
1. A service-using device comprising:
at least one receiver;
at least one transmitter; and
at least one processor configured to identify a nearby service-providing device in a secure local area network (LAN) by:
using the at least one receiver to receive information about one or more service-providing devices located on the secure LAN using a LAN discovery procedure that (i) comprises a communication between the at least one receiver and the one or more service-providing devices over the secure LAN and (ii) occurs independently of a ProSe function, the information comprising a code for, and details on features of, each of the one or more service-providing devices, and the secure local area network being one of a 5G LAN or a VLAN,
selecting one or more of the received codes,
using the at least one receiver to listen for wireless transmission of the selected one or more codes, and
using the at least one transmitter to transmit data to the service-providing device which wirelessly transmitted at least one of the selected one or more codes.