Patent ID: 9749834
Date: 2017-08-29
CPC Classifications: H04W,Y02D

Claim:
1. A communication control method, comprising: transmitting, by a network, to a first user terminal, information for the first user terminal to start to receive a discovery signal for discovering another user terminal; starting, by the first user terminal, receiving the discovery signal upon receiving the information from the network; transmitting, by a second user terminal, the discovery signal including an identifier indicating an application, wherein the identifier is used to limit a user terminal to respond to the discovery signal; transmitting, by the first user terminal, to the second user terminal, a response signal in response to a reception of the discovery signal from the second user terminal, wherein the response signal includes an identifier indicating an application; receiving, by the second user terminal, the response signal from the first user terminal; and transmitting, by the second user terminal, to the network, the identifier from the first user terminal together with an identifier indicating the second user terminal, in response to a reception of the response signal from the second user terminal.