Patent ID: 9055390
Filing Date: 2015-06-09
Classification: H04W

Abstract:
1. A method comprising: transmitting, by a wireless device, network configuration information to a remote wireless device via a proximity sensor, wherein the network configuration information includes information suitable for establishing a mobile ad hoc wireless network between a plurality of wireless devices, wherein the proximity sensor is a near field communication (NFC) adapter, and wherein the network configuration information is transmitted to the remote wireless device via the proximity sensor when the remote wireless device is touched to the wireless device; receiving, by the wireless device, a request to establish the mobile ad hoc wireless network from the remote wireless device; establishing, by the wireless device, the ad hoc wireless network with the remote wireless device according to the network configuration communicated to the remote wireless device via the proximity sensor; automatically discovering, by the wireless device, information associated with one or more peer wireless devices coupled to the ad hoc network; where the network configuration information comprises the information associated with the one or more peer wireless devices coupled to the ad hoc network; and establishing, independent of a server, one or more logical groups of peer wireless devices, within the mobile ad hoc wireless network, in accordance with the network configuration information, wherein the remote wireless device transmits the network configuration information received from the wireless device to another remote wireless device of the plurality of wireless devices when the other wireless device is touched to the remote wireless device, wherein the other remote wireless device joins the ad hoc wireless network using the network configuration information received from the remote wireless device, and wherein the one or more logical groups of peer wireless devices are formed independent of the server based on a particular peer wireless device that provided the configuration information to each of the one or more peer wireless devices.