Patent ID: 9179486
Filing Date: 2015-11-03
Classification: H04W

Abstract:
1. An inter-device communication method performed at a first device comprising: searching for a second device supporting inter-device communication; receiving second network information and a second group owner intent value from the searched second device; determining that one of the first and second devices is a group owner based on the received second network information and first network information of the first device and the other one of the first and second devices is a group client, wherein each of the first and second network information comprises at least one of type information indicating a server device or a client device, network support information, network necessity information, or network setting information; setting a first group owner intent value of the first device to be greater than the second group owner intent value when the first device is determined as the group owner; and setting the first group owner intent value to be less than the second group owner intent value when the first device is determined as the group client.