Patent ID: 9635124
Date: 2017-04-25
CPC Classifications: H04L

Claim:
1. A method for sending messages from an advertising device to a discovering device, the method comprising: storing, at the advertising device, a plurality of messages in a local cache; incrementing, each time a message is added to the local cache, a value of an internal state variable stored on the advertising device to associate each value of the internal state variable with a corresponding one of the plurality of messages; broadcasting, in response to a new message being added to the local cache, a low-level advertisement via a connectionless protocol, wherein the low-level advertisement includes an identifier of the advertising device and a new value of the internal state variable associated with the new message; receiving, from a discovering device, a request for the new message in the local cache associated with the new value of the internal state variable; and sending via a connection-oriented protocol, in response to the request, the new message to the discovering device.