Patent ID: 9197535
Filing Date: 2015-11-24
Classification: H04L,H04W

Abstract:
1. A method, comprising: determining, with a communication device, that a peer-to-peer (P2P) discovery process is to commence, wherein the P2P discovery process is for the communication device to discover one or more other communication devices capable of P2P communications; after determining that the P2P discovery process is to commence, at least one of during a time period that, prior to the act of delaying or deciding not to perform, would have been allocated for the P2P discovery process, performing communications, with the communication device, via the non-P2P communication link; allocating, with the communication device, a first portion of a listen time period of the P2P discovery process, wherein the listen time period of the P2P discovery process is allocated for the communication device (i) to listen, on a first channel, for one or more probes, when transmitted, from one or more other communication devices capable of P2P communications, and (ii) to transmit, via the first channel, one or more responses to the one or more probes on the first channel; allocating, with the communication device, a second portion of the listen time period of the P2P discovery process; allocating, with the communication device, at least one non-P2P communication time period between (i) the first portion of the listen time period and (ii) the second portion of the listen time period; listening, with the communication device, for one or more probes received via the first channel during the first portion of the listen time period of the P2P discovery process, wherein the one or more probes are transmitted by one or more other communication devices capable of P2P communications; at least one of (i) transmitting or (ii) receiving, with the communication device, via the non-P2P communication link during the at least one non-P2P communication time period; listening, with the communication device, for one or more probes received via the first channel during the second portion of the listen time period of the P2P discovery process, wherein the one or more probes, when transmitted, are from one or more other communication devices capable of P2P communications; and in response to one or more probes received, via the first channel, during the second portion of the listen time period of the P2P discovery process, transmitting, with the communication device, one or more responses via the first channel.