Patent ID: 9538568
Date: 2017-01-03
CPC Classifications: H04L,H04W

Claim:
1. A method for peer to peer, P2P, group formation, the method, performed in a first wireless device which supports Wi-Fi Direct service, comprising: transmitting a provision discovery request frame, which includes connection capabilities of the first wireless device, to a second wireless device; receiving a provision discovery response frame which includes connection capabilities of the second wireless device, from the second wireless device; and determining whether to re-use or create a P2P group and a group owner of the P2P group based on the connection capabilities included in the provision discovery request frame and the provision discovery response frame, wherein the connection capabilities of each of the first and second wireless devices indicate at least one operation mode comprising New for initiating a new P2P group, Group Owner for becoming a group owner, and Client for becoming a client.