Patent ID: 9456331
Filing Date: 2016-09-27
CPC Classification: H04L,H04W

Claim Text:
1. A method of discovering and connecting devices to form a network, the method comprising: temporarily renaming a first device, by a wireless personal area network (WPAN) module executed on the first device, with a temporary device name in a WPAN name field of the first device; making, by the WPAN module, the first device discoverable based on the temporary device name; performing, by the WPAN module, a WPAN scan for nearby devices that have the same temporary device name; based on the WPAN scan, finding, by the WPAN module, one or more of the nearby devices with the same temporary device name; saving, by the WPAN module, MAC addresses of the one or more of the nearby devices found with the same temporary device name; changing, by the WPAN module, the temporary device name in the WPAN name field of the first device to another device name; and connecting, by a Wi-Fi module executed on the first device, the first device to a second device to form the network, the second device being one of the one or more of the nearby devices found with the same temporary device name.