Patent ID: 9681476
Date: 2017-06-13
CPC Classifications: H04L,H04W

Claim:
1. A method comprising: receiving, at a first device, a first message from a second device while the first device is connected to a third device in a peer-to-peer (P2P) wireless network including the first device and the third device, the first message including an invitation inviting the first device to form a wireless network including the first device and the second device; sending, from the first device, a second message to the second device, the second message to the second device including a reason to reject the invitation to form the wireless network between the first device and the second device, wherein the reason to reject expressly includes information that the first device will send an invitation to the second device to wirelessly connect to the first device and that comprises one or more bits in a field of a data structure of the second message; and sending, from the first device, a third message to the third device that is a termination message while the first device and the third device connected, and the third message includes a reason to terminate that includes a reason code expressly indicating an invitation to join the device in a new group and that comprises one or more bits in a field of a data structure of the third message.