Patent ID: 9480013
Filing Date: 2016-10-25
CPC Classification: H04B,H04W,Y02D

Claim Text:
1. A method performed by a wireless network device in a first Neighbor Awareness Network cluster (NAN cluster) to join a second NAN cluster, wherein each of the first and second NAN clusters is a Wi-Fi NAN cluster of Wi-Fi Alliance and comprises a plurality of wireless network devices, the method comprising: discovering the second NAN cluster, including obtaining attribute information and a cluster ID (CID) of the second NAN cluster; determining to join the second NAN cluster based on the attribute information of the second NAN cluster; sending an event message to other wireless network devices in the first NAN cluster, wherein the event message comprises the CID of the second NAN cluster; and joining the second NAN cluster, wherein the step of joining comprises: performing service discovery in the second NAN cluster instead of performing service discovery in the first NAN cluster.