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

Claim 8:
9. A method of discovering a nearby service-providing device that is located in a secure local area network (LAN), the method comprising:
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 a service-using 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 local area network 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.