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

Claim 9:
10. A non-transitory computer-readable medium having instructions stored thereon that, when executed by one or more processors of a computing device configured to identify a nearby service-providing device in a secure local area network (LAN), cause the computing device to carry out operations including:
receiving 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 computing device 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 LAN being one of a 5G LAN or a VLAN;
selecting one or more of the received codes;
listening for wireless transmission of the selected one or more codes; and
transmitting data to the service-providing device which wirelessly transmitted at least one of the selected one or more codes.