Patent ID: 9730082
Date: 2017-08-08
CPC Classifications: H04W

Claim:
1. A method comprising: receiving, by a client device, a beacon or response to a probe from a relay device, wherein the beacon or response to the probe comprises a medium access control (MAC) address of an access point and service information of the access point, wherein the client device is outside direct wireless link range of the access point and within direct wireless link range of the relay device; processing, by the client device, the beacon or response to the probe from the relay device to determine that the relay device is associated with the access point, wherein the beacon or the response to the probe comprises the MAC address for the access point, a data rate or link budget for the access point, and a traffic load for the access point; generating, by the client device, a relay frame comprising an address for the client device as a transmitter address, the address for the client device as a source address, an address for the relay device as a receiver address, the MAC address for the access point as a destination address, and a MAC payload, wherein the client device is joined with a peer-to-peer group, the relay device is a group owner of the peer-to-peer group, and the access point is associated with the relay device via a second network, the second network being a type of network other than a Wireless-Fidelity (Wi-Fi) Direct network; and transmitting, by the client device, the relay frame to the relay device via the Wi-Fi Direct network to transmit the MAC payload to the access point.