Patent ID: 9380620
Filing Date: 2016-06-28
CPC Classification: H04W

Claim Text:
1. A method of operating a first wireless communications device, comprising: receiving a quality of service related signal from at least a second wireless communications device in a recurring time slot, said quality of service related signal being a broadcast signal corresponding to an existing peer to peer link, wherein said received quality of service related signal is a contention resolution signal which communicates quality of service information; receiving a contention resolution signal from a third wireless communications device; estimating a quality of service achievable at the first wireless communications device based on the received quality of service related signal and channel contention, wherein estimating the quality of service achievable at the first wireless communications device is based on contention resolution signals received from a plurality of different wireless communications devices and comprises: deciding to establish a peer to peer link with another device or not to establish a peer to peer link with another device based on the quality of service estimate.