Patent ID: 9723545
Date: 2017-08-01
CPC Classifications: H04L,H04W

Claim:
1. A method for Wi-Fi peer-to-peer (P2P) communication, comprising: determining a size of a hash of a first identifier corresponding to a desired service based at least in part on an available payload of a discovery probe, the desired service to be provided via Wi-Fi P2P communication; generating the hash of the first identifier in accordance with the determined size; including the hash in the discovery probe to identify the desired service; broadcasting, by a seeker device, the discovery probe that identifies the desired service; receiving, by the seeker device, a discovery probe response from at least one second device, the discovery probe response including a second identifier corresponding to a service that the at least one second device is capable of providing, the service corresponding to the desired service; and acquiring the desired service from the at least one second device based at least in part on receiving the discovery probe response.