Patent ID: 8958343
Filing Date: 2015-02-17
Classification: H04W

Abstract:
1. A method of communicating with another device, performed by a communication device including a Converged Personal Network Service (CPNS)-enabled entity, the method comprising: sending, at the CPNS-enabled entity set as a gateway, a request message for indicating an execution of a discovery procedure to a first Personal Network Entity (PNE) belonging to a first network to manage the first network if a second PNE belonging to a second network fails in discovering a coverage of the first network; receiving, at the CPNS-enabled entity, a response message comprising a result of the execution of the discovery procedure, from the first PNE; determining whether or not to send a bridge request message based on the response message, wherein the bridge request message is determined to be transmitted if the response message comprises information on the second PNE belonging to the second network as the result of the execution of the discovery procedure; sending the bridge request message to enable that the second PNE operates as a bridge for coupling the first network and the second network, wherein the bridge request message is sent to the second gateway via the first PNE and the second PNE; and sending the bridge request message to enable that the first PNE operates as a bridge for coupling the first network and the second network to the first PNE when a bridge response message is received from the second gateway.