Patent ID: 9548899
Date: 2017-01-17
CPC Classifications: H04L,H04W

Claim:
1. A method for wireless communications by a wireless node in a peer-to-peer (P2P) wireless network, comprising: transmitting a connectivity metric (CM) value indicating a number of other wireless nodes of the P2P wireless network to which the wireless node is connected; receiving a query for services; responding to the query for services if the CM value is greater than a defined CM threshold value, wherein a higher CM value represents a higher number of wireless nodes in the P2P wireless network to which the wireless node is connected and a higher probability that the wireless node presents opportunities to discover services relative to a lesser CM value; and determining when to respond to the query based on an absolute value of a difference between the CM value and the CM threshold value, wherein the larger the difference, the greater the probability of a response in an earlier time slot, and the smaller the difference, the greater the probability the response is delayed for higher CM scored nodes to respond.