Patent ID: 9654552
Date: 2017-05-16
CPC Classifications: H04L,H04W

Claim:
1. A method comprising: transmitting, by a first device and to each of a plurality of devices included in a current group, unique identifiers for the plurality of devices, wherein the unique identifiers include a respective unique identifier for each of the plurality of devices included in the current group, and wherein the first device is a group owner of the current group; collecting, by the first device, information from the plurality of devices included in the current group; determining, by the first device, and based on the information collected from the plurality of devices included in the current group, that a second device from the plurality of devices will be a group owner of a new group, wherein the second device is different from the first device; and before the current group is dissolved, transmitting, by the first device and to each of the plurality of devices included in the current group, the respective unique identifier for the second device to identify the second device as the group owner of the new group.