Patent ID: 9614641
Date: 2017-04-04
CPC Classifications: H04L,H04W

Claim:
1. A method for wireless communication, comprising: communicating by a first user equipment (UE) with at least one other UE via a wide area network (WAN) and not through P2P communication to negotiate at least one parameter related to peer-to-peer (P2P) communication between the first UE and a second UE in a first P2P group in order to mitigate interference between the first P2P group and a second P2P group, wherein the second P2P group comprises the at least one other UE and a peer device that are to engage in P2P communication; and communicating, directly via P2P communication, by the first UE with the second UE in accordance with the negotiated at least one parameter, wherein the second UE is different than the at least one other UE.