Patent Publication Number: US-9426184-B2

Title: Dockee-centric wireless docking

Description:
This application claims the benefit of U.S. Provisional Application No. 61/730,423 entitled “DOCKEE-CENTRIC WIRELESS DOCKING,” filed Nov. 27, 2012, and U.S. Provisional Application No. 61/739,430 entitled “DOCKEE-CENTRIC WIRELESS DOCKING,” filed Dec. 19, 2012, the entire content each of which is incorporated by reference herein. 
    
    
     TECHNICAL FIELD 
     This disclosure relates to techniques for docking between electronic devices. 
     BACKGROUND 
     Docking stations, which may also be referred to as “docks,” are sometimes used to couple electronic devices such as laptop computers to peripherals such as monitors, keyboards, mice, printers, or other types of input or output devices. These docking stations require a connection between the electronic device and the docking station. Additionally, the electronic device and the docking station must first establish docking communications before docking functions may be used. 
     SUMMARY 
     In some examples, this disclosure describes techniques for a wireless docking system environment in which a wireless dockee device is enabled to configure peripheral functions, configure and store a wireless docking environment, and perform other wireless docking functions. 
     In one example, a method includes sending a request to a wireless docking host to select one or more peripheral functions available via the wireless docking host in accordance with authentication and association information associated with a docking session with the wireless docking host. The method further includes sending a request to the wireless docking host to establish one or more payload connections with the wireless docking host, wherein the one or more payload connections are configured to communicate data via the wireless docking host for the selected one or more peripheral functions. 
     In another example, a method includes responding to a peripheral function selection request from a wireless device indicating one or more selected peripheral functions in accordance with authentication and association information associated with a docking session by sending a peripheral function selection response to the wireless device, the peripheral function selection response comprising information associated with the one or more selected peripheral functions. The method further includes responding to a payload connection request from the wireless device indicating one or more payload connections configured to communicate data for the one or more selected peripheral functions by sending a payload connection response to the wireless device, the payload connection response comprising information associated with establishing the one or more payload connections. 
     In another example, a device includes one or more processors. The one or more processors are configured to send a request to a wireless docking host to select one or more peripheral functions available via the wireless docking host in accordance with authentication and association information associated with a docking session with the wireless docking host. The one or more processors are further configured to send a request to the wireless docking host to establish one or more payload connections with the wireless docking host, wherein the one or more payload connections are configured to communicate data via the wireless docking host for the selected one or more peripheral functions. 
     In another example, a device includes one or more processors. The one or more processors are configured to respond to a peripheral function selection request from a wireless device indicating one or more selected peripheral functions in accordance with authentication and association information associated with a docking session by sending a peripheral function selection response to the wireless device, the peripheral function selection response comprising information associated with the one or more selected peripheral functions. The one or more processors are further configured to respond to a payload connection request from the wireless device indicating one or more payload connections configured to communicate data for the one or more selected peripheral functions by sending a payload connection response to the wireless device, the payload connection response comprising information associated with establishing the one or more payload connections. 
     In another example, an apparatus includes means for sending a request to a wireless docking host to select one or more peripheral functions available via the wireless docking host in accordance with authentication and association information associated with a docking session with the wireless docking host. The apparatus further includes means for sending a request to the wireless docking host to establish one or more payload connections with the wireless docking host, wherein the one or more payload connections are configured to communicate data via the wireless docking host for the selected one or more peripheral functions. 
     In another example, an apparatus includes means for responding to a peripheral function selection request from a wireless device indicating one or more selected peripheral functions in accordance with authentication and association information associated with a docking session by sending a peripheral function selection response to the wireless device, the peripheral function selection response comprising information associated with the one or more selected peripheral functions. The apparatus further includes means for responding to a payload connection request from the wireless device indicating one or more payload connections configured to communicate data for the one or more selected peripheral functions by sending a payload connection response to the wireless device, the payload connection response comprising information associated with establishing the one or more payload connections. 
     In another example, a computer-readable storage medium includes instructions stored thereon that, when executed, configure one or more processors to send a request to a wireless docking host to select one or more peripheral functions available via the wireless docking host in accordance with authentication and association information associated with a docking session with the wireless docking host. The instructions further configure the one or more processors to send a request to the wireless docking host to establish one or more payload connections with the wireless docking host, wherein the one or more payload connections are configured to communicate data via the wireless docking host for the selected one or more peripheral functions. 
     In another example, a computer-readable storage medium includes instructions stored thereon that, when executed, configure one or more processors to respond to a peripheral function selection request from a wireless device indicating one or more selected peripheral functions in accordance with authentication and association information associated with a docking session by sending a peripheral function selection response to the wireless device, the peripheral function selection response comprising information associated with the one or more selected peripheral functions. The instructions further configure the one or more processors to respond to a payload connection request from the wireless device indicating one or more payload connections configured to communicate data for the one or more selected peripheral functions by sending a payload connection response to the wireless device, the payload connection response comprising information associated with establishing the one or more payload connections. 
     The details of one or more examples are set forth in the accompanying drawings and the description below. Other features, objects, and advantages will be apparent from the description and drawings, and from the claims. 
    
    
     
       BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF DRAWINGS 
         FIG. 1  is a conceptual diagram illustrating an example wireless docking system environment in accordance with one or more examples of this disclosure. 
         FIG. 2  is a communication diagram illustrating an example procedure for a communication flow between a dockee and a docking host to exchange initial wireless communications with each other prior to establishing a wireless docking session with each other, in accordance with some examples of this disclosure. 
         FIG. 3  is a communication diagram illustrating a communication flow for an example procedure between a dockee and a docking host to establish, operate, and later tear down or terminate a dockee-centric wireless docking session with each other, in accordance with some examples of this disclosure. 
         FIG. 4  is a conceptual diagram illustrating an example wireless docking communications protocol stack in accordance with one or more examples of this disclosure. 
         FIG. 4B  is a conceptual diagram illustrating another example wireless docking communications protocol stack in accordance with one or more examples of this disclosure. 
         FIG. 4C  is a conceptual diagram illustrating an example binary docking protocol message format in accordance with one or more examples of this disclosure. 
         FIG. 4D  is a conceptual diagram illustrating another example binary docking protocol message format in accordance with one or more examples of this disclosure. 
         FIG. 5  is a communication diagram illustrating a communication flow for an example procedure for a dockee and a docking host to establish a docking session with each other, in accordance with one or more examples of this disclosure. 
         FIG. 6  is a communication diagram illustrating a communication flow for an example procedure for a dockee and a docking host to exchange peripheral function inquiry information with each other, in accordance with one or more examples of this disclosure. 
         FIG. 7  is a communication diagram illustrating a communication flow for an example procedure for a dockee and a docking host to exchange peripheral function selection information with each other, in accordance with one or more examples of this disclosure. 
         FIG. 8  is a communication diagram illustrating a communication flow for an example procedure for a dockee and a docking host to exchange payload connection setup information with each other, in accordance with one or more examples of this disclosure. 
         FIG. 9  is a communication diagram illustrating a communication flow for an example procedure for a dockee and a docking host to exchange dockee-initiated docking session teardown information with each other, in accordance with one or more examples of this disclosure. 
         FIG. 10  is a communication diagram illustrating a communication flow for an example procedure for a docking host to send docking host-initiated docking session teardown information to a dockee, in accordance with one or more examples of this disclosure. 
         FIG. 11  is a communication diagram illustrating a communication flow for an example procedure for a docking host to send docking peripheral function change notification information to a dockee, in accordance with one or more examples of this disclosure. 
         FIG. 12  is a communication diagram illustrating a communication flow for an example procedure between a dockee and a docking host to establish and operate a dockee-centric wireless docking session with each other, with the dockee creating a persistent wireless docking environment, in accordance with some examples of this disclosure. 
         FIG. 13  is a communication diagram illustrating a communication flow for an example procedure between a dockee and a docking host to establish and operate a dockee-centric wireless docking session with each other, and to exchange information to create a persistent wireless docking environment for the dockee at the wireless docking host, in accordance with some examples of this disclosure. 
         FIG. 14  is a communication diagram illustrating a communication flow for an example procedure between a dockee and a docking host to establish and operate a dockee-centric wireless docking session with each other, with a reduced peripheral function selection procedure enabled by a persistent wireless docking environment, in accordance with some examples of this disclosure. 
         FIG. 15  is a communication diagram illustrating a communication flow for an example procedure between a dockee and a docking host to establish and operate a dockee-centric wireless docking session with each other, with a reduced persistent docking procedure enabled by a persistent wireless docking environment, in accordance with some examples of this disclosure. 
         FIG. 16  is a communication diagram illustrating a communication flow for an example procedure between a dockee and a docking host for a dockee-initiated deletion of a persistent wireless docking environment, in accordance with some examples of this disclosure. 
         FIG. 17  is a communication diagram illustrating a communication flow for an example procedure between a dockee and a docking host for a docking host-initiated deletion of a persistent wireless docking environment, in accordance with some examples of this disclosure. 
         FIG. 18  is a flowchart illustrating an example method in accordance with one or more examples of this disclosure. 
         FIG. 19  is a flowchart illustrating another example method in accordance with one or more examples of this disclosure. 
         FIG. 20  is a flowchart illustrating another example method in accordance with one or more examples of this disclosure. 
         FIG. 21  is a flowchart illustrating another example method in accordance with one or more examples of this disclosure. 
         FIG. 22  is a flowchart illustrating another example method in accordance with one or more examples of this disclosure. 
         FIG. 23  is a flowchart illustrating another example method in accordance with one or more examples of this disclosure. 
         FIG. 24  is a flowchart illustrating another example method in accordance with one or more examples of this disclosure. 
     
    
    
     DETAILED DESCRIPTION 
     As described in greater detail below, this disclosure describes wireless communication techniques, protocols, methods, and devices applicable to a docking system environment in which a dockee, such as a mobile device, may dock wirelessly with a docking host or docking station. The dockee and docking host may establish a docking session with each other. The docking host may enable interaction between the dockee and any number of peripheral devices that are coupled to the docking host. For example, the peripherals may include displays, projectors, speakers, keyboards, mice, joysticks, data storage devices, network interface devices, other docking hosts, remote controls, cameras, microphones, printers, or other devices. Such peripheral devices may include stand-alone devices or components of devices such as other computers, in different examples. A user may wirelessly dock a dockee device, such as a mobile handset, with a docking host, and enable interaction between the dockee device and any of the peripherals. The dockee may be enabled to control aspects of the docking session, and to store certain information from one docking session to use in future docking sessions, obviating the need to repeat exchanges of the same information to set up future docking sessions, in some examples. 
       FIG. 1  is a conceptual diagram of a wireless docking environment  100  in which a dockee  110  communicates with a docking host  120 , or docking center  120 , over a wireless communication channel  130 . Docking host  120  is communicatively coupled with various peripheral devices  140 ,  142 ,  144 , which docking host  120  may make accessible to dockee  110 . Dockee  110  may be a mobile device such as a smartphone or other mobile handset, a tablet computer, a laptop computer, or other electronic device. Docking host  120  may be a wireless docking host device that serves as a connectivity agent within a computing environment. Docking host  120  may be a dedicated wireless dock, or may also be implemented in a smartphone or other mobile handset, a tablet computer, a laptop computer, or other electronic device, or as a component or subsystem of any of the above. Peripheral devices  140 ,  142 ,  144  may include displays, projectors, speakers, keyboards, mice, joysticks, data storage devices, network interface devices, other docking hosts, remote controls, cameras, microphones, printers, or any of various other devices capable of communication with docking host  120 . Peripheral devices  140 ,  142 ,  144  may also all be coupled to docking host  120  via wireless communication channels. Some peripheral devices may also be coupled to docking host  120  via wired communication channels, in some examples. 
     Wireless communication channel  130  may be any channel capable of propagating communicative signals between dockee  110  and docking host  120 . In some examples, wireless communication channel  130  may be implemented in radio frequency communications in frequency bands such as the 2.4 gigahertz (GHz) band, the 5 GHz band, the 60 GHz band, or other frequency bands. In some examples, wireless communication channel  130  may comply with one or more sets of standards, protocols, or technologies among Wi-Fi (as promoted by the Wi-Fi Alliance), WiGig (as promoted by the Wireless Gigabit Alliance), and/or the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 802.11 set of standards (e.g., 802.11, 802.11a, 802.11b, 802.11g, 802.11n, 802.11ac, 802.11ad, etc.), or other standards, protocols, or technologies. The frequency bands used, such as the 2.4 GHz, 5 GHz, and 60 GHz bands, may be defined for purposes of this disclosure as they are understood in light of the standards of Wi-Fi, WiGig, any one or more IEEE 802.11 protocols, or other applicable standards or protocols. Dockee  110  may establish communication with docking host  120  over wireless communication channel  130  automatically once dockee  110  and docking host  120  come within operative communication range of each other, or manually in response to a user input, in different examples. An example of dockee  110  and docking host  120  establishing initial docking communications with each other is depicted in  FIG. 2 . 
       FIG. 2  is a communication diagram illustrating an example procedure  200  for a communication flow between a dockee  110  and a docking host  120  to exchange initial wireless communications with each other prior to establishing a wireless docking session with each other, in accordance with some examples of this disclosure. The procedure  200  for discovery and initial communication provides for the dockee  110  to query the docking host  120  for what peripheral functions docking host  120  has access to and might make accessible to dockee  110 , from among the peripherals coupled to docking host  120 . This procedure  200  may be referred to as Peripheral Function Discovery. 
     As shown in the communication flow in  FIG. 2 , the docking host  120  and the dockee  110  may initially exchange device discovery communications ( 202 ). The docking host  120  may send a service discovery query to query the docking host  120  for peripheral function information ( 204 ), or information on peripheral functions available to the docking host  120 . Applicable peripheral functions may be available to docking host  120  from any one or more peripheral devices coupled to docking host  120 , as described above with peripheral devices  140 ,  142 ,  144  in the context of  FIG. 1 . The docking host  120 , serving as a wireless docking host, may send a service discovery response that provides its peripheral function information ( 206 ). The docking host  120  may thereby advertise its peripheral functions in pre-association service discovery communications ( 204 ,  206 ) with the dockee  110 . These communications are pre-association in that they take place prior to initiation of a wireless docking session between the dockee  110  and the docking host  120 . The dockee  110  may thus discover the peripheral functions associated with the docking host  120  from the service discovery response  206  as part of the pre-association service discovery communications shown in  FIG. 2 . Additional details of these pre-association service discovery communications  204 ,  206  are provided below. 
     The device discovery communications  202  and the service discovery communications  204 ,  206  as shown in  FIG. 2  may be implemented in Data Link Layer, or layer 2 (L2), communications. The L2 communications may be conveyed over any of various types of physical layer (PHY) communication channels, including any of the Wi-Fi or WiGig standards and/or IEEE 802.11 protocols as discussed above. The service discovery query  204  sent by dockee  110  and the service discovery response  206  sent by docking host  120  may use service discovery action frames. An example action frame may include a Media Access Control (MAC) header, a frame category, action details, and a frame check sequence (FCS). The action details in the service discovery query  204  sent by dockee  110  may include object identifier ( 0 I) fields and query data fields. Dockee  110  may set an OI field in the service discovery action frame to 0x506F9A, i.e., the Organizationally Unique Identifier (OUI) of the Wi-Fi Alliance (WFA). Dockee  110  may also set additional fields in the service discovery action frame, such as an OUI subtype field and a service protocol type field. Dockee  110  may set the query data field of the service discovery query action frame to include a list of docking sub-element identifiers (ID&#39;s) to query for information on available docking sub-elements. In some examples, dockee  100  may communicate with docking host  120  using plaintext payloads that include SOAP requests and responses (e.g., in accordance with the SOAP specification defined at www.w3.org/TR/soap12-part1) and GENA (General Event Notification Architecture) notifications running on a packet-based transport layer protocol stack, while in other examples, dockee  100  may communicate with docking host  120  using a binary protocol running on a packet-based transport layer protocol stack, as further described below. Dockee  110  may also set a service transaction identifier (ID) in the query data field. Examples of the query data fields and the docking sub-element ID&#39;s for examples using SOAP and GENA payloads are shown as follows in Tables 1 and 2. 
     
       
         
           
               
             
               
                 TABLE 1 
               
             
            
               
                   
               
               
                 Query Data Fields 
               
            
           
           
               
               
               
            
               
                 Field 
                 Length (Octets) 
                 Description 
               
               
                   
               
               
                 List of Docking 
                 Variable 
                 Requested Docking sub-elements 
               
               
                 Sub-element IDs 
                   
                 as an array of sub-element IDs as 
               
               
                   
                   
                 per Table 2. 
               
               
                   
               
            
           
         
       
     
     
       
         
           
               
             
               
                 TABLE 2 
               
             
            
               
                   
               
               
                 Docking Sub-element IDs 
               
            
           
           
               
               
            
               
                 Docking Sub-element ID 
                 Description 
               
               
                   
               
               
                 . . . 
                 . . . 
               
               
                 7 
                 Peripheral Function Information 
               
               
                 8 
                 Docking Host SOAP URL 
               
               
                 9 
                 Docking Host GENA URL 
               
               
                 10-255 
                 Reserved 
               
               
                   
               
            
           
         
       
     
     In some examples that may use a binary protocol instead of SOAP and GENA payloads, dockee  100  may communicate with docking host  120  without requiring the use of docking sub-element ID&#39;s 8 and 9 as listed in Table 2. 
     Docking host  120  may respond to receiving service discovery query  204  from dockee  110  by sending service discovery response  206 . Docking host  120  may include in service discovery response  206  a service discovery action frame with a service response data field that includes a list of requested docking sub-elements. Docking host  120  may include a service transaction ID in the service response type-length-value (TLV) element that matches the service transaction ID in the query data field of the service discovery query  204  from dockee  110 , to ensure that dockee  110  can associate the service discovery response  206  with the service discovery query  204 . Docking host  120  may set a docking information element (IE) in Docking Service Discovery action frames included in the service discovery response  206 . In some examples, docking host  120  may set the docking IE to include sub-elements as shown as follows in Table 3. 
     
       
         
           
               
             
               
                 TABLE 3 
               
             
            
               
                   
               
               
                 Information Sub-elements in Docking IE 
               
               
                 in Docking Service Discovery Response 
               
            
           
           
               
               
            
               
                 Sub-element 
                   
               
               
                 Name 
                 Requirements 
               
               
                   
               
               
                 . . . 
                 . . . 
               
               
                 Peripheral 
                 If requested, the Peripheral Function Information sub- 
               
               
                 Function 
                 element may be present in the Docking IE in the Docking 
               
               
                 Information 
                 Service Discovery Response action frames that docking 
               
               
                   
                 host 120 transmits. 
               
               
                 Docking 
                 If requested, the Docking Host SOAP URL sub-element 
               
               
                 Host SOAP 
                 may be present in the Docking IE in the Docking 
               
               
                 URL 
                 Service Discovery Response action frames that docking 
               
               
                   
                 host 120 transmits. 
               
               
                 Docking 
                 If requested, the Docking Host SOAP URL sub-element 
               
               
                 Host GENA 
                 may be present in the Docking IE in the Docking 
               
               
                 URL 
                 Service Discovery Response action frames that docking 
               
               
                   
                 host 120 transmits. 
               
               
                 . . . 
                 . . . 
               
               
                   
               
            
           
         
       
     
     These docking information sub-elements provided by the docking host  120  in service discovery response  206 , i.e., the Peripheral Function Information Sub-element, the Docking Host SOAP Uniform Resource Locator (URL) Sub-element, and the Docking Host General Event Notification Architecture (GENA) URL Sub-element, are further described as follows. In examples that use a binary protocol, docking center  120  may omit the docking host SOAP URL and docking host GENA URL from the information sub-elements from the docking information element in the docking service discovery response. In some examples that use the SOAP and GENA payloads, a wireless dockee  110  and a wireless docking host  120  may both send SOAP requests and responses to each other, and wireless docking host  120  may send GENA notifications to wireless dockee  110 , where both the SOAP and GENA payloads may be sent over a packet-based transport layer protocol stack, in accordance with specifications such as Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) or User Datagram Protocol/IP (UDP/IP), for example, to specified URLs, and potentially also to specified port numbers, such as TCP port number 80 (commonly associated with HTTP). 
     The Peripheral Function Information sub-element may provide the peripheral function (PF) information of peripherals hosted by docking host  120 . The Peripheral Function Information sub-element may have a data structure as shown in Table 4, with additional information on the listed fields thereafter. 
     
       
         
           
               
             
               
                 TABLE 4 
               
             
            
               
                   
               
               
                 Peripheral Function Information Sub-element 
               
            
           
           
               
               
               
            
               
                 Field 
                 Length (Octets) 
                 Type 
               
               
                   
               
               
                 n_PFs 
                 1 
                 uimsbf 
               
               
                 for (i = 0; i &lt; n_PFs; i++) { 
                   
                   
               
               
                 PF_ID 
                 2 
                 uimsbf 
               
            
           
           
               
               
               
               
            
               
                   
                 PF_type 
                 2 
                 uimsbf 
               
               
                   
                 PF_name 
                 Variable 
                 UTF-8_String( ) 
               
               
                   
                 PF_capability 
                 Variable 
                 UTF-8_String( ) 
               
               
                   
                 PF_state 
                 1 
                 uimsbf 
               
            
           
           
               
               
               
               
            
               
                   
                 n_PFPs 
                 1 
                 uimsbf 
               
               
                   
                 for (i = 0; I &lt; n_PFPs; i++) { 
                   
                   
               
            
           
           
               
               
               
               
            
               
                   
                 PFP_ID 
                 1 
                 uimsbf 
               
            
           
           
               
               
            
               
                   
                 } 
               
            
           
           
               
            
               
                 } 
               
               
                   
               
            
           
         
       
     
     The field “n_PFs” may contain the number of peripheral functions (PF&#39;s) hosted by docking host  120  that generate this PF Status information data structure. Any one or more peripheral device coupled to docking host  120  (e.g., peripheral devices  140 ,  142 ,  144  of  FIG. 1 ) may provide one or more peripheral functions. 
     The field “PF_ID” may contain the ID of a particular peripheral function (PF). As indicated by the line “for (i=0; i&lt;n_PFs; i++),” the peripheral function information sub-element may include a peripheral function ID and associated information for each peripheral function ID for each of the “n_PFs” peripheral functions. The peripheral function ID may be unique for all peripheral functions that docking host  120  currently hosts or centers or has ever hosted or centered. Docking host  120  may specify when a peripheral function is new and when the peripheral function is not new (e.g., when a mouse that provides a mouse peripheral function has been replaced by another mouse that may provide a mouse peripheral function). 
     The field “PF_type” may indicate the peripheral function type of the peripheral function. An illustrative set of peripheral function types is listed below in Table 5. 
     The field “PF_name” may contain a user-friendly name of the peripheral function. This peripheral function name may be unique for all PFs available to docking host  120 . The format of the peripheral function name may be a UTF-8_String( ) structure, in some examples. 
     The field “PF_capability” may contain the capability of the peripheral function as reported by docking host  120 . The format of the peripheral function capability may also be a UTF-8_String( ) structure, in some examples. 
     The field “n_PFPs” may contain the number of Peripheral Function Protocols that can be used to support the use of the particular peripheral referred to by a given PF_ID. The field “PFP_ID” may contain the identifier (ID) of the Peripheral Function Protocol that can be used to support the use of the particular peripheral. An illustrative set of peripheral function protocols is listed below in Table 6. The field “PF_state” may contain the state of the peripheral function, such as with the example states defined below in Table 7. 
     
       
         
           
               
             
               
                 TABLE 5 
               
             
            
               
                   
               
               
                 Peripheral Function Type 
               
            
           
           
               
               
            
               
                 PF Type 
                 Description 
               
               
                   
               
               
                 0 
                 Mouse 
               
               
                 1 
                 Keyboard 
               
               
                 2 
                 Remote Control 
               
               
                 3 
                 Display 
               
               
                 4 
                 Speaker 
               
               
                 5 
                 Microphone 
               
               
                 6 
                 Storage 
               
               
                 7 
                 Joystick 
               
               
                 8-65535 
                 Reserved 
               
               
                   
               
            
           
         
       
     
     
       
         
           
               
             
               
                 TABLE 6 
               
             
            
               
                   
               
               
                 Peripheral Function Protocol Identifier 
               
            
           
           
               
               
            
               
                 PFP ID 
                 Description 
               
               
                   
               
               
                 0 
                 Miracast 
               
               
                 1 
                 WiFi Serial Bus (WSB) 
               
               
                 2 
                 Bluetooth 
               
               
                 3 
                 WiGig Display Extension (WDE) 
               
               
                 4 
                 WiGig Serial Extension (WSE) 
               
               
                 5-255 
                 Reserved 
               
               
                   
               
            
           
         
       
     
     
       
         
           
               
             
               
                 TABLE 7 
               
             
            
               
                   
               
               
                 PF_state values 
               
            
           
           
               
               
               
            
               
                 State 
                 Value 
                 Description 
               
               
                   
               
               
                 DISCONNECTED 
                 0x01 
                 The PF cannot be reached by its managing 
               
               
                   
                   
                 wireless docking host (WDH, e.g., docking 
               
               
                   
                   
                 host 120) and its managing WDH has 
               
               
                   
                   
                 no further information on how to 
               
               
                   
                   
                 make it available for docking. 
               
               
                 SLEEP 
                 0x02 
                 The PF has let its managing WDH known 
               
               
                   
                   
                 that it is going to low-power mode or to be 
               
               
                   
                   
                 switched-off and that user action on the 
               
               
                   
                   
                 PF is required to make the PF available 
               
               
                   
                   
                 for docking again. On the other hand, 
               
               
                   
                   
                 if a PF can be woken up without requiring 
               
               
                   
                   
                 user action (e.g. through Wake-on-LAN 
               
               
                   
                   
                 or by changing the USB power state), 
               
               
                   
                   
                 the PF may not be given the PF_state 
               
               
                   
                   
                 “SLEEP”. Such PFs may be given the state 
               
               
                   
                   
                 “NOT PAIRED” or “AVAILABLE”. 
               
               
                 NOT_PAIRED 
                 0x03 
                 The only thing that needs to be done for 
               
               
                   
                   
                 making this PF available for docking is 
               
               
                   
                   
                 that a user action is needed for 
               
               
                   
                   
                 pairing the PF with its managing WDH. 
               
               
                 AVAILABLE 
                 0x04 
                 The PF is available for docking. 
               
               
                 NOT_AVAILABLE 
                 0x05 
                 The PF is not available for docking. 
               
               
                   
               
            
           
         
       
     
     The Docking Host SOAP URL sub-element provides the URL of the SOAP command service for the docking protocol provided by the docking host  120 . The Docking Host SOAP URL sub-element may have the data structure shown as follows in Table 8. 
     
       
         
           
               
             
               
                 TABLE 8 
               
             
            
               
                   
               
               
                 Docking Host SOAP URL Sub-element 
               
            
           
           
               
               
               
               
            
               
                   
                 Length 
                   
                   
               
               
                 Field 
                 (Octets) 
                 Type 
                 Description 
               
               
                   
               
               
                 port_num 
                 2 
                 uimsbf 
                 Port number 
               
               
                 URL_path 
                 Variable 
                 UTF-8_String( ) 
                 Substring of URL path, 
               
               
                   
                   
                   
                 percent-encoded as per 
               
               
                   
                   
                   
                 Internet Engineering 
               
               
                   
                   
                   
                 Task Force (IETF) Request 
               
               
                   
                   
                   
                 for Comment (RFC) 3986 
               
               
                   
               
            
           
         
       
     
     The Docking Host GENA URL sub-element provides the URL of the GENA notification service for the docking protocol provided by the docking host  120 . The Docking Host GENA URL sub-element may have the data structure shown as follows in Table 9. 
     
       
         
           
               
             
               
                 TABLE 9 
               
             
            
               
                   
               
               
                 Docking Host GENA URL Sub-element 
               
            
           
           
               
               
               
               
            
               
                   
                 Length 
                   
                   
               
               
                 Field 
                 (Octets) 
                 Type 
                 Description 
               
               
                   
               
               
                 port_num 
                 2 
                 uimsbf 
                 Port number 
               
               
                 URL_path 
                 Variable 
                 UTF-8_String( ) 
                 Substring of URL path, 
               
               
                   
                   
                   
                 percent-encoded as per 
               
               
                   
                   
                   
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     As described in greater detail below, this disclosure further describes wireless communication techniques, protocols, methods, and devices that enable a Dockee-Centric Docking Protocol in a docking system environment in which a dockee device, such as a wireless device, may dock wirelessly with a docking host. An overview of example Dockee-Centric Docking Protocol Procedures is provided as follows. An example docking protocol may include the following procedural components: Docking Session Setup, Peripheral Function Inquiry, Peripheral Function Selection, and Session Teardown. These are illustrated in the example of  FIG. 3 . 
       FIG. 3  is a communication diagram illustrating a communication flow for an example procedure  300  between a dockee  110  and a docking host  120  to establish, operate, and later tear down or terminate a dockee-centric wireless docking session with each other, in accordance with some examples of this disclosure. This procedure  300  may be referred to as a Dockee-Centric Docking Protocol Procedure. In the example of  FIG. 3 , procedure  300  includes device discovery  202 , as shown in  FIG. 2 , and pre-association service discovery  242 , corresponding to service discovery query  204  and service discovery response  206  as shown in  FIG. 2 . In the example of  FIG. 3 , procedure  300  further includes authentication and association  310 , connection setup  320 , docking session setup  330 , peripheral function inquiry  340 , peripheral function selection  350 , payload connection setup  360 , data  370 , and docking session teardown  380 . Device discovery  202 , pre-association service discovery  242 , and authentication and association  310  may be implemented in L2 communications, while connection setup  320 , docking session setup  330 , peripheral function inquiry  340 , peripheral function selection  350  may be implemented in TCP/IP communications, as shown in the example of  FIG. 3 . In the example of  FIG. 3 , the Dockee-Centric Docking Protocol may be communicated via transport layer communications such as in accordance with Internet Protocol (IP). The Dockee-Centric Docking Protocol may use SOAP and GENA payloads in some examples, and a binary protocol in some examples, for message transactions. An example of the protocol stack using SOAP and GENA payloads is shown in  FIG. 4 , while an example of the protocol stack using a binary protocol is shown in  FIG. 4B . A TCP/IP port may be specified in the wireless docking center control URL sub-element in the pre-association service discovery  242  of procedure  300 . 
     In example procedure  300  of  FIG. 3 , each of the communications shown between dockee  110  and docking host  120  may include one or more communications, such as queries, requests, etc., from the dockee  110 , and one or more communications, such as responses, notifications, etc., from the docking host  120 . Examples of these communications from dockee  110  as part of procedure  300  are as follows. 
     As part of device discovery  202 , dockee  110  may send one or more communications to discover wireless docking host  120 . As part of pre-association service discovery  242 , dockee  110  may query the wireless docking host  120  for information on peripheral functions available via the wireless docking host  120 . As part of authentication and association  310 , dockee  110  may exchange authentication and association information with the wireless docking host  120 . As part of connection setup  320 , dockee  110  may send a request to set up a packet-based communication connection with the wireless docking host  120 . As part of docking session setup  330 , dockee  110  may send a request to set up a docking session over the packet-based communication connection with the wireless docking host  120 . As part of peripheral function inquiry  340 , dockee  110  may send an inquiry request to the wireless docking host  120  for information on peripheral functions available via the wireless docking host  120  based on the authentication and association information from authentication and association  310 . As part of peripheral function selection  350 , dockee  110  may send a request to select one or more of the peripheral functions from the wireless docking host  120 . As part of payload connection setup  360 , dockee  110  may send a request to set up one or more payload connections with the wireless docking host  120  wherein the one or more payload connections are configured to communicate data via the wireless docking host  120  for the one or more of the peripheral functions. 
     Dockee  110  and docking host  120  may then exchange data  370  for the one or more peripheral functions, for one or more peripherals, over the one or more payload connections, using one or more peripheral function protocols. Dockee  110  and/or wireless docking host  120  may later send communications as part of docking session teardown  380 . Further details on some aspects of these communications in procedure  300  are provided below. 
     In example procedure  300  of  FIG. 3 , from the perspective of the wireless docking host  120 , examples of these communications from wireless docking host  120  as part of procedure  300  are as follows. As part of device discovery  202 , docking host  120  may send one or more communications to discover wireless dockee  110 . As part of pre-association service discovery  242 , wireless docking host  120  may respond to a query from the wireless dockee  110  for information on available peripheral functions by sending peripheral function information to the wireless dockee  110 . As part of authentication and association  310 , wireless docking host  120  may exchange authentication and association information with the wireless dockee  110 . As part of connection setup  320 , docking host  120  may respond to a request from the wireless dockee  110  to set up a packet-based communication connection by sending a connection setup response to the wireless dockee  110 . As part of docking session setup  330 , wireless docking host  120  may respond to a request from the wireless dockee  110  to set up a docking session over the packet-based communication connection by sending a docking session response to the wireless dockee  110 . As part of peripheral function inquiry  340 , wireless docking host  120  may respond to an inquiry request from the wireless dockee  110  for information on peripheral functions available based on the authentication and association information by sending a response to the inquiry request. As part of peripheral function selection  350 , wireless docking host  120  may respond to a selection request from the wireless dockee  110  indicating one or more selected peripheral functions from the peripheral functions by sending a response to the selection request. As part of payload connection setup  360 , wireless docking host  120  may respond to a payload connection request from the wireless dockee  110  indicating one or more payload connections configured to communicate data via for the one or more selected peripheral functions by sending a response to the payload connection request. 
     As noted above, dockee  110  and docking host  120  may then exchange data  370  for the one or more peripheral functions, for one or more peripherals, over the one or more payload connections, using one or more peripheral function protocols. As noted above, dockee  110  and/or wireless docking host  120  may later send communications as part of docking session teardown procedure  380 , which may be used to terminate a session. Further details on some aspects of these communications in procedure  300  are provided below. 
       FIG. 4  is a conceptual diagram illustrating an example wireless docking communications protocol stack  400  in accordance with one or more examples of this disclosure that use SOAP and GENA payloads. As shown in  FIG. 4 , the dockee  110  may use SOAP to send commands to the docking host  120 . The URL for SOAP at the docking host  120  is given in the Docking Host SOAP URL Sub-element of the Docking IE during the device discovery  202 . A SOAP request of the docking protocol may use the following example format in some examples. The elements to be included in the SOAP body of a docking protocol message may be described in its corresponding docking protocol procedure in some examples. 
     
       
         
           
               
             
               
                   
               
             
            
               
                     POST [path] HTTP/1.1 
               
               
                     Host: [WDH SOAP service URL] 
               
               
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     A SOAP response of the docking protocol may use the following format in some examples. The elements to be included in the SOAP body of a docking protocol message may be described in its corresponding docking protocol procedure in some examples. 
     
       
         
           
               
             
               
                   
               
             
            
               
                     HTTP/1.1 200 OK 
               
               
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     GENA may be used for the docking host  120  to send notifications to the dockee  110 . The URL for GENA at the Wireless Docking Host may be given in the Docking Host GENA URL Sub-element of the Docking IE during the device discovery  202 . A GENA Subscribe Request message of the docking protocol may use the following format in some examples. 
     
       
         
           
               
               
             
               
                   
                   
               
             
            
               
                   
                 SUBSCRIBE [path] HTTP/1.1 
               
               
                   
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     A GENA Subscribe Response message of the docking protocol may use the following format in some examples. 
     
       
         
           
               
               
             
               
                   
                   
               
             
            
               
                   
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     A GENA Unsubscribe Request message of the docking protocol may use the following format in some examples. 
     
       
         
           
               
               
             
               
                   
                   
               
             
            
               
                   
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     A GENA Unsubscribe Response message of the docking protocol may use the following format in some examples.
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     A GENA Event Notification message of the docking protocol may use the following format in some examples. The elements to be included in a GENA Event Notification message of the docking protocol may be described in its corresponding docking protocol procedure in some examples: 
     
       
         
           
               
               
             
               
                   
                   
               
             
            
               
                   
                     NOTIFY [path] HTTP/1.0 
               
               
                   
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                     SID: [dockeeID:sessionID:subscriptionID] 
               
               
                   
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       FIG. 4B  is a conceptual diagram illustrating another example wireless docking communications protocol stack  401  in accordance with one or more examples of this disclosure that uses a binary protocol running on TCP/IP. As indicated in  FIG. 4B , dockee  100  and docking center  120  may both send docking communications  414  over a binary docking protocol  407  running on TCP layer  404  and IP layer  402 . The TCP/IP port may be specified in the wireless docking center control URL sub-element in the pre-association service discovery  242  of procedure  300 . Binary docking protocol  407  may be used to communicate docking protocol messages using a common format, examples of which are shown in  FIGS. 4C and 4D . 
       FIG. 4C  is a conceptual diagram illustrating an example binary docking protocol message format  420  in accordance with one or more examples of this disclosure. Binary docking protocol message format  420  as depicted in the example of  FIG. 4C  shows the bit fields of a binary packet header, with illustrative bit sizes and field positions. Other configurations may be used in other binary protocol format examples, with other field sizes and arrangements. The fields include a version field  422 , an extension header flag (E)  424 , a reserved field  426 , a message type field  428 , a length field  430 , a dockee identifier (ID) field  432 , a session identifier (ID) field  434 , and a message body field  440 . 
     Version field  422  (four bits in this example) indicates a version of the binary protocol, and may be set to 0b0000 in this example. Extension header flag (E)  424  (one bit in this example) may indicate whether an extension header is present, for example, by being set to 1 if and only if an extension header is present (an example of which is shown in  FIG. 4D ). The reserved field  426  (three bits in this example) may be reserved for future use, and may be set to zeros and ignored in the current example. The message type ID field  428  (eight bits in this example) may indicate a message type, examples of which are shown below in Table 10. The length field  430  (sixteen bits in this example) may indicate the length of the message body in bytes. The dockee ID field  432  (thirty-two bits in this example) may indicate the universally unique identifier (UUID) of the dockee  110 . The session ID field  434  (sixteen bits in this example) may indicate the session identifier issued by the wireless docking center  120 . When the session is not set up, this field may be set to 0x0000, which should then not be used for the session ID of an active docking session. The message body field  440  may include the body of the message. 
       FIG. 4D  is a conceptual diagram illustrating another example binary docking protocol message format  421  in accordance with one or more examples of this disclosure. Binary docking protocol message format  421  is identical to binary docking protocol message format  420  in the example of  FIG. 4C  except for including two additional fields, namely an extension header length field  436  and an extension header field  438 . If these fields are used, their presence may be indicated in extension header flag (E) field  424 . The extension header length field  436  (sixteen bits in this example) may indicate the length of the extension header if the extension header is present. The extension header field  438  (also sixteen bits in this example) may contain the content of the extension header. 
     As indicated above, an example set of the docking protocol message types that may be included in the message type ID field  428  are listed below in Table 10. Message type ID&#39;s 10, 11, 14, and 15 refer to a WDN, i.e., a wireless data environment. 
     
       
         
           
               
             
               
                 TABLE 10 
               
             
            
               
                   
               
               
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                 0 
                 Session Setup Request 
               
               
                 1 
                 Session Setup Response 
               
               
                 2 
                 Peripheral Function Inquiry Request 
               
               
                 3 
                 Peripheral Function Inquiry Response 
               
               
                 4 
                 Peripheral Function Change Notification 
               
               
                 5 
                 Peripheral Function Selection Request 
               
               
                 6 
                 Peripheral Function Selection Response 
               
               
                 7 
                 Session Teardown Request 
               
               
                 8 
                 Session Teardown Response 
               
               
                 9 
                 Session Teardown Notification 
               
               
                 10 
                 Create Persistent WDN Request 
               
               
                 11 
                 Create Persistent WDN Response 
               
               
                 12 
                 Persistent Docking Request 
               
               
                 13 
                 Persistent Docking Response 
               
               
                 14 
                 Delete Persistent WDN Request 
               
               
                 15 
                 Delete Persistent WDN Request 
               
               
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                 Reserved 
               
               
                   
               
            
           
         
       
     
       FIG. 5  is a communication diagram illustrating a communication flow for an example procedure  330  for a dockee  110  and a docking host  120  to establish a docking session with each other, in accordance with one or more examples of this disclosure. The procedure  330  for establishing a docking session may correspond to the docking session set-up procedure  330  as shown in  FIG. 3 , and provides for the initial set-up to start a docking environment between the dockee  110  and the docking host  120 . The Docking Session Setup procedure  330  may be used by a dockee  110  to set up a docking management session. In this example, the dockee  110  sends the Docking Session Setup Request  332  to the docking host  120  for setting up the docking session. The Docking Session Setup Request  332  may include the universally unique identifier (UUID) of the dockee  110 . In some examples using SOAP payloads, the Docking Session Setup Request  332  may include a SOAP body with the following XML element in some examples: 
     
       
         
           
               
             
               
                   
               
             
            
               
                 &lt;xs:element name=“sessionSetupRequest”&gt; 
               
               
                   &lt;xs:complexType&gt; 
               
               
                     &lt;xs:sequence&gt; 
               
               
                       &lt;xs:element name=“dockeeID” type=“xs:unsignedLong”/&gt; 
               
               
                     &lt;/xs:sequence&gt; 
               
               
                   &lt;/xs:complexType&gt; 
               
               
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     Throughout this disclosure, requests and responses that include a SOAP body may be considered SOAP payloads. The docking host  120  sends the Docking Session Setup Response  334  to the dockee  110  to confirm the status of the docking session set up. The Docking Session Setup Response  334  may include a unique Docking Session ID. In some examples, the Docking Session Setup Response  334  may include a SOAP body that may include or consist of the following XML element in some examples: 
     
       
         
           
               
             
               
                   
               
             
            
               
                     &lt;xs:element name=“sessionSetupResponse”&gt; 
               
               
                       &lt;xs:complexType&gt; 
               
               
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                           &lt;xs:element name=“dockeeID” 
               
               
                           type=“xs:unsignedLong”/&gt; 
               
               
                           &lt;xs:element name=“sessionID” 
               
               
                           type=“xs:unsignedLong”/&gt; 
               
               
                             &lt;xs:annotation&gt; 
               
               
                               &lt;xs:documentation&gt;a unique docking session 
               
               
                 ID&lt;/xs:documentation&gt; 
               
               
                             &lt;/xs:annotation&gt; 
               
               
                         &lt;/xs:sequence&gt; 
               
               
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     In other examples of docking session setup procedure  330  using a binary protocol, wireless dockee  110  may send a session setup request  332  in which the message body  440  is empty, and the session ID field  434  is set to 0x0000. The wireless docking center  120  may respond by sending docking setup response  334  to dockee  110  to confirm the status of the docking session setup. 
       FIG. 6  is a communication diagram illustrating a communication flow for an example procedure  340  for a dockee  110  and a docking host  120  to exchange peripheral function inquiry information with each other, in accordance with one or more examples of this disclosure. The procedure  340  for exchanging peripheral function inquiry information may correspond to the peripheral function inquiry procedure  340  as shown in  FIG. 3 . Peripheral function inquiry procedure  340  differs from peripheral function discovery that may take place as part of pre-association service discovery  242 . For example, peripheral function inquiry procedure  340  takes place in a secure transaction in a transport layer protocol such as TCP, rather than in layer 2 communications, and after authentication of a docking session between dockee  110  and docking host  120 , such that docking host  120  may apply any permissions needed for the peripheral functions based on the authentication, in some examples. 
     The peripheral function inquiry procedure  340  may be used by a dockee  110  to retrieve peripheral function information of peripherals hosted by the docking host  120 . In the example of  FIG. 6 , the wireless dockee  110  sends the Peripheral Function Inquiry Request  342  to the Wireless Docking Host  120  to request the peripheral function information. The Peripheral Function Inquiry Request  342  may include the UUID of the wireless dockee  110 , and a docking session ID. The Peripheral Function Inquiry Request  342  may include a SOAP body that may include or consist of the following XML element in some examples: 
     
       
         
           
               
             
               
                   
               
             
            
               
                 &lt;xs:element name=“peripheralInquiryRequest”&gt; 
               
               
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     The Wireless Docking Host  120  may send the Peripheral Function Inquiry Response  344  to the Wireless Dockee  110  in response to Peripheral Function Inquiry Request  342  to provide peripheral function information. The Peripheral Function Inquiry Response  344  may include an array of peripheral functions. For each peripheral function, Peripheral Function Inquiry Response  344  may include a list of peripheral function protocols and a list of payload connection protocols that can be used to support the use of the peripheral function. The Peripheral Function Inquiry Response  344  may include a SOAP body that may include or consist of the following XML element in some examples: 
     
       
         
           
               
             
               
                   
               
             
            
               
                     &lt;xs:element name=“peripheralInquiryResponse”&gt; 
               
               
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                 “peripheralFunctionProtocol” type=“peripheralFunctionProtocol” 
               
               
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     The XML types peripheralFunctionType, peripheralFunctionProtocol and payloadConnectionType used by the element peripheralFunction in the XML element above for Peripheral Function Inquiry Response  344  may be defined as follows, in some examples: 
     
       
         
           
               
               
             
               
                   
               
             
            
               
                   
                 &lt;xs:simpleType name=“peripheralFunctionType”&gt; 
               
               
                   
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                 &lt;xs:simpleType name=“payloadConnectionType”&gt; 
               
               
                   
                   &lt;xs:restriction base=“xs:string”&gt; 
               
               
                   
                    &lt;xs:enumeration value=“11n”/&gt; 
               
               
                   
                    &lt;xs:enumeration value=“11ac”/&gt; 
               
               
                   
                    &lt;xs:enumeration value=“11ad”/&gt; 
               
               
                   
                   &lt;/xs:restriction&gt; 
               
               
                   
                 &lt;/xs:simpleType&gt; 
               
               
                   
               
            
           
         
       
     
     In other examples of peripheral function inquiry procedure  340  using a binary protocol, wireless dockee  110  may send a peripheral function inquiry request  342  in which the message body  440  is empty. The wireless docking center  120  may respond, in this example, by sending a peripheral function inquiry response  344  to dockee  110  with peripheral function information as listed below in Table 11. 
     
       
         
           
               
             
               
                 TABLE 11 
               
             
            
               
                   
               
               
                 Peripheral Function Inquiry Response 
               
            
           
           
               
               
               
            
               
                 Field 
                 Length (Octets) 
                 Type 
               
               
                   
               
               
                 n_PFs 
                 1 
                 uimsbf 
               
               
                 for (i = 0; i &lt; n_PFs; i++) { 
                   
                   
               
            
           
           
               
               
               
               
            
               
                   
                 PF_ID 
                 2 
                 uimsbf 
               
               
                   
                 PF_type 
                 2 
                 uimsbf 
               
               
                   
                 PF_name 
                 Variable 
                 UTF-8_String( ) 
               
               
                   
                 PF_capability 
                 Variable 
                 UTF-8_String( ) 
               
               
                   
                 PF_state 
                 1 
                 uimsbf 
               
               
                   
                 n_PFPs 
                 1 
                 uimsbf 
               
               
                   
                 for (i = 0; i &lt; n_PFPs; i++) { 
                   
                   
               
            
           
           
               
               
               
               
            
               
                   
                 PFP_ID 
                 1 
                 uimsbf 
               
            
           
           
               
               
            
               
                   
                 } 
               
            
           
           
               
               
               
            
               
                  n_PCTs 
                 1 
                 uimsbf 
               
            
           
           
               
               
            
               
                   
                 for (i = 0; i &lt; n_PCTs; i++) { 
               
            
           
           
               
               
               
               
            
               
                   
                 PCT_ID 
                 1 
                 uimsbf 
               
            
           
           
               
               
            
               
                   
                 } 
               
            
           
           
               
            
               
                 } 
               
               
                   
               
            
           
         
       
     
     In Table 11, some of the fields may provide information similar to the fields described above with reference to Table 4. Additionally, in this example, the peripheral function inquiry response fields as listed in Table 11 may include n_PCTs; this field may contain a number of payload connection types that can be used to support a peripheral function. The field PCT_ID in this example may contain the identifier of a payload connection type, making reference to different sections of IEEE 802.11 (e.g., 802.11n, 802.11ac, 802.11ad), as provided below in Table 12. 
     
       
         
           
               
             
               
                 TABLE 12 
               
             
            
               
                   
               
               
                 Payload Connection Type (PCT) 
               
            
           
           
               
               
            
               
                 PCT ID 
                 Description 
               
               
                   
               
               
                 0 
                 11n 
               
               
                 1 
                 11ac 
               
               
                 2 
                 11ad 
               
               
                 3-255 
                 Reserved 
               
               
                   
               
            
           
         
       
     
       FIG. 7  is a communication diagram illustrating a communication flow for an example procedure  350  for a dockee and a docking host to exchange peripheral function selection information with each other, in accordance with one or more examples of this disclosure. The procedure  350  for exchanging peripheral function selection information may correspond to the peripheral function selection procedure  350  as shown in  FIG. 3 . The peripheral function selection procedure  350  may be used by a dockee  110  to select peripheral functions to make use of, during the wireless docking session, from peripherals hosted by the docking host  120 . In the example of  FIG. 7 , the wireless dockee  110  sends the Peripheral Function Selection Request  352  to the Wireless Docking Host  120  to indicate one or more selections of peripheral functions. The Peripheral Function Selection Request  352  may include a list of one or more peripheral functions for dockee  110  to use. The Peripheral Function Selection Request  352  may include, for each selected peripheral function, the peripheral function protocol and the payload connection protocol that can be used to support the use of the corresponding selected peripheral functions. In an example using SOAP and GENA payloads, Peripheral Function Selection Request  352  may include a SOAP body that may include or consist of the following XML element in some examples: 
     
       
         
           
               
             
               
                   
               
             
            
               
                    &lt;xs:element name=“peripheralInquiryResponse”&gt; 
               
               
                      &lt;xs:complexType&gt; 
               
               
                       &lt;xs:sequence&gt; 
               
               
                         &lt;xs:element name=“dockeeID” 
               
               
                         type=“xs:unsignedLong”/&gt; 
               
               
                         &lt;xs:element name=“sessionID” 
               
               
                         type=“xs:unsignedLong”/&gt; 
               
               
                         &lt;xs:element name=“peripheralFunction” 
               
               
                 maxOccurs=“unbounded”&gt; 
               
               
                          &lt;xs:complexType&gt; 
               
               
                            &lt;xs:sequence&gt; 
               
               
                             &lt;xs:element name=“peripheralFunctionID” 
               
               
                 type=“xs:unsignedLong”/&gt; 
               
               
                             &lt;xs:element name= 
               
               
                 “peripheralFunctionProtocol” type=“peripheralFunctionProtocol”/&gt; 
               
               
                             &lt;xs:element name= 
               
               
                 “payloadConnectionType” type=“payloadConnectionType”/&gt; 
               
               
                             &lt;xs:element name=“required” 
               
               
                 type=“xs:boolean”/&gt; 
               
               
                            &lt;/xs:sequence&gt; 
               
               
                          &lt;/xs:complexType&gt; 
               
               
                         &lt;/xs:element&gt; 
               
               
                       &lt;/xs:sequence&gt; 
               
               
                      &lt;/xs:complexType&gt; 
               
               
                    &lt;/xs:element&gt; 
               
               
                   
               
            
           
         
       
     
     The Wireless Docking Host  120  may send the Peripheral Function Selection Response  354  to the Wireless Dockee  110  to provide information needed to establish the payload connection for the corresponding peripheral function protocols. The Peripheral Function Selection Response  354  may include a SOAP body that may include or consist of the following XML element in some examples: 
     
       
         
           
               
             
               
                   
               
             
            
               
                    &lt;xs:element name=“peripheralSelectionResponse”&gt; 
               
               
                      &lt;xs:complexType&gt; 
               
               
                       &lt;xs:sequence&gt; 
               
               
                         &lt;xs:element name=“dockeeID” 
               
               
                         type=“xs:unsignedLong”/&gt; 
               
               
                         &lt;xs:element name=“sessionID” 
               
               
                         type=“xs:unsignedLong”/&gt; 
               
               
                         &lt;xs:element name=“accepted” type=“xs:boolean”/&gt; 
               
               
                         &lt;xs:element name=“peripheralFunction” 
               
               
                 minOccurs=“0” maxOccurs=“unbounded”&gt; 
               
               
                          &lt;xs:complexType&gt; 
               
               
                            &lt;xs:sequence&gt; 
               
               
                             &lt;xs:element name=“peripheralFunctionID” 
               
               
                 type=“xs:unsignedLong”/&gt; 
               
               
                             &lt;xs:element name= 
               
               
                 “peripheralFunctionProtocol” type=“peripheralFunctionProtocol”/&gt; 
               
               
                             &lt;xs:element name= 
               
               
                 “payloadConnectionType” type=“payloadConnectionType”/&gt; 
               
               
                            &lt;/xs:sequence&gt; 
               
               
                          &lt;/xs:complexType&gt; 
               
               
                         &lt;/xs:element&gt; 
               
               
                       &lt;/xs:sequence&gt; 
               
               
                      &lt;/xs:complexType&gt; 
               
               
                    &lt;/xs:element&gt; 
               
               
                   
               
            
           
         
       
     
     In other examples of peripheral function selection procedure  350  using a binary protocol, wireless dockee  110  may send a peripheral function selection request  352  in which the message body  440  contains peripheral function selection information as listed below in Table 13. The wireless docking center  120  may respond, in this example, by sending a peripheral function selection response  354  to dockee  110  with peripheral function selection information as listed further below in Table 14. 
     
       
         
           
               
             
               
                 TABLE 13 
               
             
            
               
                   
               
               
                 Peripheral Function Selection Request 
               
            
           
           
               
               
               
               
            
               
                   
                 Field 
                 Length (Octets) 
                 Type 
               
               
                   
               
               
                   
                 n_PFs 
                 1 
                 uimsbf 
               
               
                   
                 for (i = 0; i &lt; n_PFs; i++) { 
                   
                   
               
            
           
           
               
               
               
               
            
               
                   
                 PF_ID 
                 2 
                 uimsbf 
               
               
                   
                 PFP_ID 
                 1 
                 uimsbf 
               
               
                   
                 PCT_ID 
                 1 
                 uimsbf 
               
               
                   
                 required 
                 1 
                 boolean 
               
            
           
           
               
               
            
               
                   
                 } 
               
               
                   
               
            
           
         
       
     
     In the peripheral function selection request, the “required” field indicates whether a particular peripheral function is a must-have for a docking session. The field may be set to 0x00 if and only if this particular peripheral function is required for the docking session. 
     The wireless docking center  120  may send the peripheral function selection response  354  to the wireless dockee  110  to provide information needed to establish the payload connection for its corresponding peripheral function protocols, with peripheral function selection response in a message body  440  as indicated below in Table 14. 
     
       
         
           
               
             
               
                 TABLE 14 
               
             
            
               
                   
               
               
                 Peripheral Function Selection Response 
               
            
           
           
               
               
               
               
            
               
                   
                 Field 
                 Length (Octets) 
                 Type 
               
               
                   
               
               
                   
                 accepted 
                 1 
                 boolean 
               
               
                   
                 n_PFs 
                 1 
                 uimsbf 
               
               
                   
                 for (i = 0; i &lt; n_PFs; i++) { 
                   
                   
               
            
           
           
               
               
               
               
            
               
                   
                 PF_ID 
                 2 
                 uimsbf 
               
               
                   
                 PFP_ID 
                 1 
                 uimsbf 
               
               
                   
                 PCT_ID 
                 1 
                 uimsbf 
               
            
           
           
               
               
            
               
                   
                 } 
               
               
                   
               
            
           
         
       
     
     In the peripheral function selection response, the “accepted” field indicates whether the request for a docking session is accepted. The wireless docking center  120  may then provide the peripheral functions listed in the response  354  to the dockee  110  for the docking session. 
       FIG. 8  is a communication diagram illustrating a communication flow for an example procedure  360  for a dockee  110  and a docking host  120  to exchange payload connection setup information with each other, in accordance with one or more examples of this disclosure. The procedure  360  for exchanging payload connection setup information may correspond to the payload connection setup procedure  360  as shown in  FIG. 3 . The payload connection setup procedure  360  may be used by a dockee  110  to establish one or more payload connections, during the wireless docking session, to convey data between dockee  110  and the peripherals hosted by the docking host  120 . One or more aspects of the payload connection setup procedure  360  may need to be repeated until payload connections for all intended peripherals are set up. The payload connection Setup procedure  360  can be divided into separate stages, including payload connection negotiation request  361  and response  362 ; payload connection setup request  363  and response  364 ; payload connection setup, including authentication and association  365 , peripheral function protocol control plane message exchange  366 , and peripheral function data  367 ; and payload connection complete request  368  and response  369 . Some aspects of payload connection setup procedure  360  may involve usage of or other association with an established payload connection rather than setting up or establishing the payload connection, such as exchanges of peripheral data  367  within an established payload connection. 
     In the example of  FIG. 8 , the wireless dockee  110  may send a payload connection negotiation request  361  to the wireless docking host  120 , and the wireless docking host  120  may respond by sending a payload connection negotiation response  362  to the wireless dockee  110 . The payload connection negotiation request  361  and payload connection negotiation response  362  may each include information on one or more of peripheral functions (PF&#39;s), peripheral function protocols (PFP), peripheral connection payloads (PCP), and connectivity. The wireless dockee  110  may then send a payload connection setup request  363  to the wireless docking host  120 , and the wireless docking host  120  may respond by sending a payload connection setup response  364  to the wireless dockee  110 . At least the payload connection setup request  363  may also include PF, PFP, PCP, and connectivity information. 
     Some additional details regarding the payload connection negotiation request  361 , payload connection negotiation response  362 , payload connection setup request  363 , and payload connection setup response  364  in some examples are provided as follows. The payload connection negotiation request  361  may include the following information: payload connection protocol; connectivity configuration information of the payload connection requested by the dockee  110 ; peripheral function protocol; and peripheral functions that use the payload connection protocol and the payload function protocol. In the case of setting up a Wi-Fi peer-to-peer (P2P) connection without a persistent P2P group, the connectivity configuration information may include: group owner intent, operating channel, intended P2P interface address, channel list, P2P group ID, and P2P group credential. In the case of setting up a Wi-Fi P2P connection with a persistent P2P group, the connectivity configuration information may include: operating channel, P2P group basic service set identification (BSSID), channel list, and P2P group ID. 
     The payload connection negotiation response  362  may include the following information: payload connection protocol; connectivity configuration information of the payload connection requested by the docking host  120 ; peripheral function protocol; and peripheral functions that use the payload connection protocol and the payload function protocol. In the case of setting up a Wi-Fi P2P connection without a persistent P2P group, the connectivity information may include: group owner intent, operating channel, intended P2P interface address, channel list, P2P group ID, and P2P group credential. In the case of setting up a Wi-Fi P2P connection with a persistent P2P group, the connectivity information may include: operating channel, P2P group BSSID, and channel list. 
     The payload connection setup request  363  may include the following information: payload connection protocol; connectivity configuration information of the payload connection as agreed by both the dockee  110  and the docking host  120 ; peripheral function protocol; and peripheral functions that use the payload connection protocol and the payload function protocol. In the case of setting up a Wi-Fi P2P connection without a persistent P2P group, the connectivity information may include: operating channel, channel list, and P2P group ID. In the case of setting up a Wi-Fi P2P connection with a persistent P2P group, the connectivity information may include: operating channel, P2P group BSSID, and channel list. 
     The docking host  120  may send the payload connection setup response  364  to confirm that the setup information been accepted. After the Payload Connection Setup request  363  and response  364 , both the dockee  110  and the docking host  120  may proceed to payload connection setup, which may include a process to find each other on a common channel and connect to each other based on the connectivity configuration information prescribed for the payload connection. This may include the dockee  110  and the docking host  120  exchanging a new set of authentication and association  365  specific to the payload connection, which may be done over layer 2 (“L2”) communications, IP transport layer communications (e.g., TCP/IP), application layer communications (e.g., HTTP), or other communications in various examples. 
     After the payload connection setup, the dockee  110  may send the payload connection complete request  368  to the docking host  120 . The docking host  120  may send the payload connection complete response  369  after docking host  120  has received payload connection complete request  368  to signal that the peripheral functions corresponding to the payload connection are now in use by the dockee  110 . 
     In some examples, the payload connection for one or more peripherals may comprise a Wi-Fi Display (WFD) connection. The payload connection setup for WFD may take place after the Peripheral Function Selection procedure  350 , if WFD is selected and agreed to be the peripheral function protocol of a peripheral function that is a WFD sink device. Similarly, in some examples, the payload connection for one or more peripherals may be a Wi-Fi Serial Bus (WSB) connection. The payload connection setup for WSB may take place after the Peripheral Function Selection procedure  350 , if WSB is selected and agreed to be the peripheral function protocol of a peripheral function that is a WSB device. 
     Either the dockee  110  or the docking host  120  may initiate a teardown of a wireless docking session to terminate the docking session.  FIGS. 9 and 10  show communication flows for different examples of a docking session teardown procedure, whether initiated by the dockee  110  or the docking host  120 . 
       FIG. 9  is a communication diagram illustrating a communication flow for an example procedure  381  initiated by a dockee  110  for a dockee  110  and a docking host  120  to exchange docking session teardown information with each other, in accordance with one or more examples of this disclosure. The procedure  360  for exchanging docking session teardown information may correspond to the docking session teardown procedure  380  as shown in  FIG. 3 . The docking session teardown procedure  380  may be used by a dockee  110  to terminate a wireless docking session. 
     In the example of  FIG. 9 , the wireless dockee  110  sends a session teardown request  382  to the wireless docking host  120 . The session teardown request  382  may include the Session ID. In examples using SOAP and GENA payloads, the session teardown request  382  sent by the dockee  110  may include a SOAP body that may include or consist of the following XML element in some examples: 
     
       
         
           
               
             
               
                   
               
             
            
               
                 &lt;xs:element name=“sessionTeardownRequest”&gt; 
               
               
                   &lt;xs:complexType&gt; 
               
               
                    &lt;xs:sequence&gt; 
               
               
                      &lt;xs:element name=“dockeeID” type=“xs:unsignedLong”/&gt; 
               
               
                      &lt;xs:element name=“sessionID” type=“xs:unsignedLong”/&gt; 
               
               
                    &lt;/xs:sequence&gt; 
               
               
                   &lt;/xs:complexType&gt; 
               
               
                 &lt;/xs:element&gt; 
               
               
                   
               
            
           
         
       
     
     The session teardown response  383  sent by the wireless docking host  120  may include a SOAP body that may include or consist of the following XML element in some examples: 
     
       
         
           
               
             
               
                   
               
             
            
               
                 &lt;xs:element name=“sessionTeardownResponse”&gt; 
               
               
                   &lt;xs:complexType&gt; 
               
               
                    &lt;xs:sequence&gt; 
               
               
                      &lt;xs:element name=“dockeeID” type=“xs:unsignedLong”/&gt; 
               
               
                      &lt;xs:element name=“sessionID” type=“xs:unsignedLong”/&gt; 
               
               
                    &lt;/xs:sequence&gt; 
               
               
                   &lt;/xs:complexType&gt; 
               
               
                 &lt;/xs:element&gt; 
               
               
                   
               
            
           
         
       
     
     In other examples based on a binary protocol, dockee  110  may send a session teardown request  382  with an empty message body, and the wireless docking center  120  may respond with a session teardown response  384  that also has an empty message body. 
       FIG. 10  is a communication diagram illustrating a communication flow for an example procedure  385  initiated by a docking host  120  for a docking host  120  to send docking session teardown information to a wireless dockee  110 , in accordance with one or more examples of this disclosure. The procedure  385  for docking host  120  to send docking session teardown information may also correspond to another example of the docking session teardown procedure  380  as shown in  FIG. 3 . The docking session teardown procedure  385  may be used by a docking host  120  to terminate a wireless docking session. Wireless docking host  120  may terminate a docking session with dockee  110  unilaterally, in this example. 
     In the example of  FIG. 10 , the wireless docking host  120  sends a session teardown notification  386  to the wireless dockee  110 . The session teardown notification  386  may include the Session ID. In examples using SOAP and GENA payloads, the session teardown notification  386  may include or take the form of a GENA event, since it is simply a notification, in this example. The Session Teardown Notification GENA event may include a DockingHostNotification element that may include or consist of the following XML element in some examples: 
     
       
         
           
               
               
             
               
                   
               
             
            
               
                   
                 &lt;xs:element name=“sessionTeardownNotif” minOccurs=“0” &gt; 
               
               
                   
                   &lt;xs:complexType&gt; 
               
               
                   
                    &lt;xs:attribute name=“dockeeID” type=“xs:unsignedLong”/&gt; 
               
               
                   
                    &lt;xs:attribute name=“sessionID” type=“xs:unsignedLong”/&gt; 
               
               
                   
                   &lt;/xs:complexType&gt; 
               
               
                   
                 &lt;/xs:element&gt; 
               
               
                   
               
            
           
         
       
     
     In other examples based on a binary protocol, the wireless docking center  120  may send a session teardown notification  386  that simply has an empty message body. 
       FIG. 11  is a communication diagram illustrating a communication flow for an example procedure  1100  for a wireless docking host  120  to send peripheral function change information to a wireless dockee  110 , in accordance with one or more examples of this disclosure. The peripheral function change notification procedure  1100  may be used by a wireless docking host  120  to inform a wireless dockee  110  of new changes in peripheral functions available via wireless docking host  120  in the wireless docking session, in the form of addition, removal, or state change of peripherals hosted by the docking host  120 . 
     Wireless docking host  120  may use peripheral function change notification procedure  1100  in the event that wireless docking host  120  detects a new change in the peripheral functions available via wireless docking host  120 , such as by receiving communication from a peripheral device that is newly added to the peripheral devices available to wireless docking host  120 . A peripheral device may be made newly available to wireless docking host by being wirelessly hot-plugged into wireless docking host  120  during one or more existing wireless docking sessions, for example. In some examples, a newly hot-plugged peripheral device may be added to the docking environment of wireless docking host  120  over a Wi-Fi Serial Bus (WSB) connection, for example. Wireless docking host  120  may also use peripheral function change notification procedure  1100  in the event that wireless docking host  120  loses communication with an existing peripheral device, for example. 
     In the example of  FIG. 11 , the wireless docking host  120  sends a peripheral function change notification  1102  to the wireless dockee  110 , thereby sending a notice of the new change in the available peripheral functions to the wireless dockee  110 , in this example. The peripheral function change notification  1102  may include information on peripheral functions (PF), peripheral function protocols (PFP), peripheral connection payloads (PCP), and/or one or more peripheral function change codes, for example. In examples using SOAP and GENA payloads, the peripheral function change notification  1102  may include or take the form of a GENA event, since it is simply a notification, in this example. The peripheral function change notification GENA event may include or consist of the following XML element in some examples: 
     
       
         
           
               
             
               
                   
               
             
            
               
                    &lt;xs:element name=“peripheralFunctionChangeNotif”&gt; 
               
               
                      &lt;xs:complexType&gt; 
               
               
                       &lt;xs:sequence&gt; 
               
               
                         &lt;xs:element name=“peripheralFunction” 
               
               
                 maxOccurs=“unbounded”&gt; 
               
               
                          &lt;xs:complexType&gt; 
               
               
                            &lt;xs:sequence&gt; 
               
               
                             &lt;xs:element name=“peripheralFunctionID” 
               
               
                 type=“xs:unsignedLong”/&gt; 
               
               
                             &lt;xs:element name= 
               
               
                 “peripheralFunctionType” type=“peripheralFunctionType”/&gt; 
               
               
                             &lt;xs:element name= 
               
               
                 “peripheralFunctionProtocol” type=“peripheralFunctionProtocol” 
               
               
                 maxOccurs=“unbounded”/&gt; 
               
               
                             &lt;xs:element name= 
               
               
                 “payloadConnectionType” type=“payloadConnectionType” 
               
               
                 maxOccurs=“unbounded”/&gt; 
               
               
                             &lt;xs:element name=“description” 
               
               
                 type=“xs:string”/&gt; 
               
               
                             &lt;xs:element name=“available” 
               
               
                 type=“xs:boolean”/&gt; 
               
               
                            &lt;/xs:sequence&gt; 
               
               
                          &lt;/xs:complexType&gt; 
               
               
                         &lt;/xs:element&gt; 
               
               
                       &lt;/xs:sequence&gt; 
               
               
                      &lt;xs:attribute name=“dockeeID” type=“xs:unsignedLong”/&gt; 
               
               
                      &lt;xs:attribute name=“sessionID” type=“xs:unsignedLong”/&gt; 
               
               
                      &lt;xs:attribute name=“changeCode” 
               
               
                      type=“peripheralChangeCode”/&gt; 
               
               
                      &lt;/xs:complexType&gt; 
               
               
                    &lt;/xs:element&gt; 
               
               
                   
               
            
           
         
       
     
     The peripheral function change code that may be included in a peripheral function change notification  1102  may include a GENA event that includes an XML type peripheralChangeCode used by the element peripheralFunction, and may include or consist of the following XML element in some examples: 
     
       
         
           
               
               
             
               
                   
               
             
            
               
                   
                 &lt;xs:simpleType name=“peripheralChangeCode”&gt; 
               
               
                   
                   &lt;xs:restriction base=“xs:string”&gt; 
               
               
                   
                    &lt;xs:enumeration value=“addition”/&gt; 
               
               
                   
                    &lt;xs:enumeration value=“removal”/&gt; 
               
               
                   
                    &lt;xs:enumeration value=“statusChange”/&gt; 
               
               
                   
                   &lt;/xs:restriction&gt; 
               
               
                   
                 &lt;/xs:simpleType&gt; 
               
               
                   
               
            
           
         
       
     
     In the case of a Universal Serial Bus (USB) peripheral device being plugged into a device in the docking environment of wireless docking host  120  and coupled to wireless docking host  120  over a Wi-Fi Serial Bus (WSB) connection, the wireless docking host  120  may control the enumeration process for the newly plugged USB device at the dockee  110 . The WSB connection may be mediated by a WSB hub module. When the WSB hub module detects and enumerates a newly plugged USB device, the WSB hub module may inform the wireless docking host  120  of the detection and the necessary description information of the USB device. The wireless docking host  120  may then send a command locally to the WSB hub module to suspend sending a USB device detection signal to a WSB host at the dockee  110 . The wireless docking host  120  may subsequently advertise the newly plugged USB device and its description to its dockee  110  and wait for the dockee  110  to select the newly plugged USB device for its own use. If a dockee  110  selects the newly plugged USB device for its own use, the wireless docking host  120  may send a command locally to the WSB hub module to resume sending a USB device detection signal to the WSB host at the dockee  110 . 
     As described in greater detail below, this disclosure also describes wireless communication techniques, protocols, methods, and devices applicable to a docking system environment in which a wireless dockee or a wireless docking host may create and/or store a persistent wireless data environment (WDN). The creation and/or storage of a persistent WDN may also be done in combination with dockee-centric docking protocols such as those discussed above. The WDN may be considered persistent in that dockee  110  or docking host  120  may store a WDN, or the configuration data for the selected one or more peripheral functions of a WDN, to persist after the current docking session, and available to be applied in establishing subsequent docking sessions with each other, in some examples. Different examples of a persistent WDN creation procedure are shown in  FIGS. 12 and 13 . 
     In other examples of peripheral function change notification procedure  1100  using a binary protocol, wireless dockee  110  may send a peripheral function change notification  1102  to the wireless dockee  110  in which the message body  440  of the binary message contains peripheral function notification information as listed below in Table 15. 
     
       
         
           
               
             
               
                 TABLE 15 
               
             
            
               
                   
               
               
                 Peripheral Function Change Notification 
               
            
           
           
               
               
               
            
               
                 Field 
                 Length (Octets) 
                 Type 
               
               
                   
               
               
                 n_PFs 
                 1 
                 uimsbf 
               
               
                 for (i = 0; i &lt; n_PFs; i++) { 
                   
                   
               
            
           
           
               
               
               
               
            
               
                   
                 PF_ID 
                 2 
                 uimsbf 
               
               
                   
                 PF_type 
                 2 
                 uimsbf 
               
               
                   
                 PF_name 
                 Variable 
                 UTF-8_String( ) 
               
               
                   
                 PF_capability 
                 Variable 
                 UTF-8_String( ) 
               
               
                   
                 PF_state 
                 1 
                 uimsbf 
               
               
                   
                 n_PFPs 
                 1 
                 uimsbf 
               
               
                   
                 for (i = 0; i &lt; n_PFPs; i++) { 
                   
                   
               
            
           
           
               
               
               
               
            
               
                   
                 PFP_ID 
                 1 
                 uimsbf 
               
            
           
           
               
               
            
               
                   
                 } 
               
            
           
           
               
               
               
            
               
                  change_code 
                 1 
                 uimsbf 
               
               
                 } 
               
               
                   
               
            
           
         
       
     
     In the peripheral function change notification message body, the “change_code” field indicates a change code of the peripheral function, which may be selected from among those listed below in Table 16. 
     
       
         
           
               
             
               
                 TABLE 16 
               
             
            
               
                   
               
               
                 Peripheral Function Change Code 
               
            
           
           
               
               
            
               
                 change_code 
                 Description 
               
               
                   
               
               
                 0 
                 Addition 
               
               
                 1 
                 Removal 
               
               
                 2 
                 State Change 
               
               
                 3-255 
                 Reserved 
               
               
                   
               
            
           
         
       
     
       FIG. 12  is a communication diagram illustrating a communication flow for an example procedure  1200  between a wireless dockee  110  and a wireless docking host  120  to establish and operate a dockee-centric wireless docking session with each other, with the dockee creating a persistent wireless docking environment, in accordance with some examples of this disclosure. The procedure  1200  for establishing and operating a wireless docking session may correspond in many aspects to the wireless docking session procedure  300  as shown in  FIG. 3 , including the component procedures  202 ,  242 ,  310 ,  320 ,  330 ,  340 ,  350 , and  360 , as shown in both  FIGS. 3 and 12 . In one example, wireless docking session procedure  1200  in  FIG. 12  differs in that, after payload connection setup  360 , the wireless dockee  110  may create a persistent wireless data environment (WDN), locally at the wireless dockee  110 . The wireless dockee  110  therefore may not need to send or receive any communications to create a persistent WDN; wireless dockee  110  may merely create the persistent WDN locally and store the configuration data for the persistent WDN locally, in this example. 
     Wireless dockee  110  may create the persistent WDN for its own future use, which may include simplifying and quickening the process of establishing and operating future wireless docking sessions between dockee  110  and wireless docking host  120 , for example. The WDN configuration data may include the peripheral functions (PF) used in a particular wireless docking session, and the peripheral function protocol (PFP) and payload connection protocol (PCP) information for each peripheral function. A persistent P2P group may be associated with a persistent WDN, although a persistent WDN is not necessarily associated with a persistent P2P group, in some examples. 
     In some examples, the wireless docking host  120  may store a persistent wireless data environment (WDN) for the future use of the particular wireless dockee  110 . During the pre-association service discovery procedure  242 , wireless docking host  120  may include a docking information element (IE) in service discovery response  206  that may include a wireless docking (WDCK) capability sub-element. Wireless docking host  120  may set its WDCK capability sub-element in part to indicate that it has the capability to store a persistent WDN for the future use of the dockee  110 . If the wireless docking host  120  has the capability to store a persistent WDN, then dockee  110  may initiate a transaction to store the persistent WDN at the wireless docking host  120 . An example of this is shown in  FIG. 13 . 
       FIG. 13  is a communication diagram illustrating a communication flow for an example procedure  1300  between a wireless dockee  110  and a wireless docking host  120  to establish and operate a dockee-centric wireless docking session with each other, with the dockee initiating a transaction to store a persistent wireless docking environment (WDN) at the wireless docking host  120 , in accordance with some examples of this disclosure. The procedure  1300  for establishing and operating a wireless docking session may also correspond in many aspects to the wireless docking session procedure  300  as shown in  FIG. 3 , including the component procedures  202 ,  242 ,  310 ,  320 ,  330 ,  340 ,  350 , and  360 , as shown in  FIGS. 3 and 12  as well as  13 . 
     Wireless docking session procedure  1300  in  FIG. 13  differs from wireless docking procedures  300  of  FIG. 3 or 1200  of  FIG. 12  in that, after payload connection setup  360 , the wireless dockee  110  initiates a transaction to create a persistent WDN at the wireless docking host  120 . Wireless dockee  110  does this by sending a create persistent WDN request  1302  to wireless docking host  120 . Wireless docking host  120  may in turn send a create persistent WDN response  1304  to the wireless dockee  110 . The create persistent WDN response  1304  sent by the wireless docking host  120  may include a unique WDN_ID and an expiration time, in some examples. 
     In examples of wireless docking session procedure  1300  that use SOAP and GENA payloads, the create persistent WDN request  1302  sent by the wireless dockee  110  may include a SOAP body that may include or consist of the following XML element in some examples: 
     
       
         
           
               
             
               
                   
               
             
            
               
                 &lt;xs:element name=“dockeeCentricWDNCreateRequest”&gt; 
               
               
                   &lt;xs:complexType&gt; 
               
               
                    &lt;xs:sequence&gt; 
               
               
                      &lt;xs:element name=“dockeeID” type=“xs:unsignedLong”/&gt; 
               
               
                      &lt;xs:element name=“sessionID” type=“xs:unsignedLong”/&gt; 
               
               
                    &lt;/xs:sequence&gt; 
               
               
                   &lt;/xs:complexType&gt; 
               
               
                 &lt;/xs:element&gt; 
               
               
                   
               
            
           
         
       
     
     The create persistent WDN response  1304  sent by the wireless docking host  120  may include a SOAP body that may include or consist of the following XML element in some examples: 
     
       
         
           
               
             
               
                   
               
             
            
               
                    &lt;xs:element name=“dockeeCentricWDNCreateResponse”&gt; 
               
               
                      &lt;xs:complexType&gt; 
               
               
                       &lt;xs:sequence&gt; 
               
               
                         &lt;xs:element name=“dockeeID” 
               
               
                         type=“xs:unsignedLong”/&gt; 
               
               
                         &lt;xs:element name=“sessionID” 
               
               
                         type=“xs:unsignedLong”/&gt; 
               
               
                         &lt;xs:element name=“accepted” type=“xs:boolean”/&gt; 
               
               
                         &lt;xs:element name=“WDNID” type=“xs:unsignedLong” 
               
               
                 minOccurs=“0”&gt; 
               
               
                          &lt;xs:annotation&gt; 
               
               
                            &lt;xs:documentation&gt;a unique dockee 
               
               
                 centric WDN ID&lt;/xs:documentation&gt; 
               
               
                          &lt;/xs:annotation&gt; 
               
               
                         &lt;/xs:element&gt; 
               
               
                       &lt;/xs:sequence&gt; 
               
               
                      &lt;/xs:complexType&gt; 
               
               
                    &lt;/xs:element&gt; 
               
               
                   
               
            
           
         
       
     
     After a persistent WDN is created, either at the wireless dockee  110  or at the wireless docking host  120 , the wireless dockee  110  may use simplified and faster procedures to establish and operate subsequent wireless docking sessions with the same wireless docking host  120 , in some examples. Illustrative examples of such simplified and faster procedures to establish and operate subsequent wireless docking sessions are shown in  FIGS. 14 and 15 . 
     In examples of wireless docking session procedure  1300  that use SOAP and GENA payloads, the create persistent WDN request  1302  sent by the wireless dockee  110  may include an empty message body. The wireless docking center  120  may respond with a create persistent WDN response  1304  that may include fields in the message body as shown below in Table 17. 
     
       
         
           
               
             
               
                 TABLE 17 
               
             
            
               
                   
               
               
                 Create Persistent WDN Response 
               
            
           
           
               
               
               
               
            
               
                   
                 Field 
                 Length (Octets) 
                 Type 
               
               
                   
               
               
                   
                 accepted 
                 1 
                 boolean 
               
               
                   
                 WDN_ID 
                 1 
                 uimsbf 
               
               
                   
               
            
           
         
       
     
     In the binary protocol fields of create persistent WDN response  1304  in this example, the “accepted” field indicates whether the request is accepted, and the “WDN_ID” field indicates a unique wireless data network (WDN)_ID assigned to the particular dockee  110  by wireless docking center  120 . 
       FIG. 14  is a communication diagram illustrating a communication flow for an example procedure  1400  between a dockee  110  and a docking host  120  to establish and operate a dockee-centric wireless docking session with each other, with certain simplified procedures enabled by a persistent wireless docking environment stored at the dockee  110 , in accordance with some examples of this disclosure. Wireless docking procedure  1400  of the example of  FIG. 14  includes some aspects in common with wireless docking procedure  300  of the example of  FIG. 3 , including device discovery procedure  202 , authentication and association procedure  310 , TCP/IP connection setup  320 , docking session setup  330 , and payload connection setup  360 . 
     Wireless docking procedure  1400  of  FIG. 14  differs from wireless docking procedure  300  of  FIG. 3  in other respects. Wireless docking procedure  1400  of  FIG. 14  does not include pre-association service discovery procedure  242  or peripheral function inquiry procedure  340 . This is because the persistent WDN at wireless dockee  110  stores the service information and the peripheral function information associated with the wireless docking host  120 , that wireless dockee  110  would otherwise need to seek by way of both the pre-association service discovery procedure  242  and the peripheral function inquiry procedure  340 . Therefore, the persistent WDN may simplify and quicken the procedure  1400  for wireless dockee  110  to establish and operate a wireless docking session with wireless docking host  120 .  FIG. 14  also shows peripheral function selection request  1402  and peripheral function selection response  1404 , which may be similar to analogous peripheral function selection procedures in other examples except that they may be performed without having to perform a prior peripheral function inquiry procedure in the example procedure  1400  of  FIG. 14 . 
     The example procedure  1400  of  FIG. 14  may be considered to be based on implicit persistent docking by dockee  110  since dockee  110  stores the persistent WDN locally at itself. This may be contrasted with persistent WDN storage at the wireless docking host  120 , which may be considered explicit persistent docking, and an example of which is shown in  FIG. 15 . 
       FIG. 15  is a communication diagram illustrating a communication flow for an example procedure  1500  between a dockee  110  and a docking host  120  to establish and operate a dockee-centric wireless docking session with each other, with certain simplified procedures enabled by a persistent wireless docking environment stored at the docking host  120 , in accordance with some examples of this disclosure. Wireless docking procedure  1500  of the example of  FIG. 15  includes some aspects in common with wireless docking procedures  300  and  1400  of the examples of  FIGS. 3 and 14 , including device discovery procedure  202 , authentication and association procedure  310 , TCP/IP connection setup  320 , docking session setup  330 , and payload connection setup  360 . Like persistent WDN-enabled docking procedure  1400  of the example of  FIG. 14 , docking procedure  1500  of  FIG. 15  also avoids the need for dockee  110  and docking host  120  to perform pre-association service discovery procedure  242  or peripheral function inquiry procedure  340 , since the information otherwise exchanged from these procedures is already stored in the persistent WDN. 
     Docking procedure  1500  of  FIG. 15  also differs from docking procedure  1400  of  FIG. 14  in that procedure  1500  may also omit a peripheral function selection procedure, such as peripheral function selection request  1402  and response  1404  of  FIG. 14 . Instead, in the example of  FIG. 15 , wireless docking host  120  may also store the peripheral function selection configuration data applicable to dockee  110  as part of the persistent WDN. Such peripheral function selection configuration data may be associated with a unique persistent wireless data environment identifier (WDN_ID) that may be associated with the persistent WDN stored at the docking host  120 . Dockee  110  may also store this persistent WDN_ID, and use it to identify an applicable or desired persistent WDN to the docking host  120 . As shown in  FIG. 15 , dockee  110  may send a persistent docking request  1502  that may include this persistent WDN_ID. Wireless docking host  120  may reply with a persistent docking response  1504 . Persistent docking request  1502  and response  1504  may therefore in some examples be considered to function as a simpler substitute for the peripheral function selection procedures of other examples. 
     For the persistent WDN&#39;s to be stored “at” the dockee  110  or docking host  120 , it will be understood that in other examples, the persistent WDN&#39;s or the persistent WDN configuration data may equivalently be stored somewhere accessible to the dockee  110  or docking host  120  respectively, which may include proximate or remote storage resources in various examples. 
     In examples using communication by SOAP and GENA payloads, the create persistent docking request  1502  sent by the wireless dockee  110  may include a SOAP body that may include or consist of the following XML element in some examples: 
     
       
         
           
               
               
             
               
                   
               
             
            
               
                   
                    &lt;xs:element name=“persistentDockingRequest”&gt; 
               
               
                   
                      &lt;xs:complexType&gt; 
               
               
                   
                       &lt;xs:sequence&gt; 
               
               
                   
                         &lt;xs:element name=“dockeeID” 
               
               
                   
                         type=“xs:unsignedLong”/&gt; 
               
               
                   
                         &lt;xs:element name=“sessionID” 
               
               
                   
                         type=“xs:unsignedLong”/&gt; 
               
               
                   
                         &lt;xs:element name=“dockeeCentricWDNID” 
               
               
                   
                 type=“xs:unsignedLong”/&gt; 
               
               
                   
                       &lt;/xs:sequence&gt; 
               
               
                   
                      &lt;/xs:complexType&gt; 
               
               
                   
                    &lt;/xs:element&gt; 
               
               
                   
               
            
           
         
       
     
     The create persistent docking response  1504  sent by the wireless docking host  120  may include a SOAP body that may include or consist of the following XML element in some examples: 
     
       
         
           
               
             
               
                   
               
             
            
               
                    &lt;xs:element name=“persistentDockingResponse”&gt; 
               
               
                      &lt;xs:complexType&gt; 
               
               
                       &lt;xs:sequence&gt; 
               
               
                         &lt;xs:element name=“dockeeID” 
               
               
                         type=“xs:unsignedLong”/&gt; 
               
               
                         &lt;xs:element name=“sessionID” 
               
               
                         type=“xs:unsignedLong”/&gt; 
               
               
                         &lt;xs:element name=“accepted” type=“xs:boolean”/&gt; 
               
               
                         &lt;xs:element name=“peripheralFunction” 
               
               
                 minOccurs=“0” maxOccurs=“unbounded”&gt; 
               
               
                          &lt;xs:complexType&gt; 
               
               
                            &lt;xs:sequence&gt; 
               
               
                             &lt;xs:element name=“peripheralFunctionID” 
               
               
                 type=“xs:unsignedLong”/&gt; 
               
               
                             &lt;xs:element name= 
               
               
                 “peripheralFunctionProtocol” type=“peripheralFunctionProtocol”/&gt; 
               
               
                             &lt;xs:element name= 
               
               
                 “payloadConnectionType” type=“payloadConnectionType”/&gt; 
               
               
                            &lt;/xs:sequence&gt; 
               
               
                          &lt;/xs:complexType&gt; 
               
               
                         &lt;/xs:element&gt; 
               
               
                       &lt;/xs:sequence&gt; 
               
               
                      &lt;/xs:complexType&gt; 
               
               
                    &lt;/xs:element&gt; 
               
               
                   
               
            
           
         
       
     
     If a wireless dockee  110  stores a persistent WDN at a wireless docking host  120 , as in procedure  1300  of  FIG. 13 , wireless dockee  110  may subsequently delete its persistent WDN at the wireless docking host  120  using a Dockee Initiated WDN Deletion Transaction, an example of which is shown in  FIG. 16 . The wireless docking host  120  can also delete a persistent WDN, and may notify a wireless dockee  110  of the deletion of its persistent WDN by sending a notification to the wireless dockee  110 , an example of which is shown in  FIG. 17 . 
     In examples using communication via binary protocol over TCP/IP, the persistent docking request  1502  may include a message body with fields as shown below in Table 18. 
     
       
         
           
               
             
               
                 TABLE 18 
               
             
            
               
                   
               
               
                 Persistent Docking Request 
               
            
           
           
               
               
               
               
            
               
                   
                 Field 
                 Length (Octets) 
                 Type 
               
               
                   
               
               
                   
                 WDN_ID 
                 1 
                 uimsbf 
               
               
                   
                 accepted 
                 1 
                 boolean 
               
               
                   
                 n_PFs 
                 1 
                 uimsbf 
               
               
                   
                 for (i = 0; i &lt; n_PFs; i++) { 
                   
                   
               
            
           
           
               
               
               
               
            
               
                   
                 PF_ID 
                 2 
                 uimsbf 
               
               
                   
                 PFP_ID 
                 1 
                 uimsbf 
               
               
                   
                 PCT_ID 
                 1 
                 uimsbf 
               
            
           
           
               
               
            
               
                   
                 } 
               
               
                   
               
            
           
         
       
     
     In the fields of persistent docking request  1502  in accordance with Table 16, the WDN_ID and other fields are as described above. 
       FIG. 16  is a communication diagram illustrating a communication flow for an example dockee-centric procedure  1600  for a dockee  110  to delete a persistent wireless data environment (WDN) at a docking host  120 , in accordance with one or more examples of this disclosure. A wireless dockee  110  may send a delete persistent WDN request  1602  to the wireless docking host  120 , and may include a persistent WDN_ID for the wireless docking host  120  to identify the persistent WDN to be deleted. The wireless docking host  120  may reply with a delete persistent WDN response  1604 . 
     In examples using communication via SOAP and GENA payloads, the delete persistent WDN request  1602  sent by the wireless dockee  110  may include a SOAP body that may include or consist of the following XML element: 
     
       
         
           
               
             
               
                   
               
             
            
               
                 &lt;xs:element name=“dockeeCentricWDNDeleteRequest”&gt; 
               
               
                   &lt;xs:complexType&gt; 
               
               
                    &lt;xs:sequence&gt; 
               
               
                      &lt;xs:element name=“dockeeID” type=“xs:unsignedLong”/&gt; 
               
               
                      &lt;xs:element name=“sessionID” type=“xs:unsignedLong”/&gt; 
               
               
                      &lt;xs:element name=“WDNID” type=“xs:unsignedLong”/&gt; 
               
               
                    &lt;/xs:sequence&gt; 
               
               
                   &lt;/xs:complexType&gt; 
               
               
                 &lt;/xs:element&gt; 
               
               
                   
               
            
           
         
       
     
     The delete persistent WDN response  1604  sent by the wireless docking host  120  may include a SOAP body that may include or consist of the following XML element in some examples: 
     
       
         
           
               
             
               
                   
               
             
            
               
                 &lt;xs:element name=“dockeeCentricWDNDeleteResponse”&gt; 
               
               
                   &lt;xs:complexType&gt; 
               
               
                    &lt;xs:sequence&gt; 
               
               
                      &lt;xs:element name=“dockeeID” type=“xs:unsignedLong”/&gt; 
               
               
                      &lt;xs:element name=“sessionID” type=“xs:unsignedLong”/&gt; 
               
               
                      &lt;xs:element name=“accepted” type=“xs:boolean”/&gt; 
               
               
                      &lt;xs:element name=“WDNID” type=“xs:unsignedLong”/&gt; 
               
               
                    &lt;/xs:sequence&gt; 
               
               
                   &lt;/xs:complexType&gt; 
               
               
                 &lt;/xs:element&gt; 
               
               
                   
               
            
           
         
       
     
     In examples using communication via binary protocol messages, dockee  110  may send a delete persistent WDN request  1602  with a message body that includes a WDN_ID field as indicated below in Table 19. 
     
       
         
           
               
             
               
                 TABLE 19 
               
             
            
               
                   
               
               
                 Delete Persistent WDN Request 
               
            
           
           
               
               
               
               
            
               
                   
                 Field 
                 Length (Octets) 
                 Type 
               
               
                   
               
               
                   
                 WDN_ID 
                 1 
                 uimsbf 
               
               
                   
               
            
           
         
       
     
     The wireless docking center  120  may respond with a delete persistent WDN response  1604  with a message body as indicated below in Table 20. 
     
       
         
           
               
             
               
                 TABLE 20 
               
             
            
               
                   
               
               
                 Delete Persistent WDN Response 
               
            
           
           
               
               
               
               
            
               
                   
                 Field 
                 Length (Octets) 
                 Type 
               
               
                   
               
               
                   
                 WDN_ID 
                 1 
                 uimsbf 
               
               
                   
                 accepted 
                 1 
                 boolean 
               
               
                   
               
            
           
         
       
     
       FIG. 17  is a communication diagram illustrating a communication flow for an example procedure  1700  for a docking host  120  to delete a persistent wireless data environment (WDN) stored at the docking host  120  and to notify a dockee  110  of the deletion, in accordance with one or more examples of this disclosure. A wireless docking host  120  may unilaterally delete a persistent WDN stored at or accessible to the wireless docking host  120 , in this example. The wireless docking host  120  may send a delete persistent WDN notification  1702  to the wireless dockee  110 , and may include a persistent WDN_ID for the wireless dockee  110  to confirm the identity of the deleted persistent WDN. 
     In examples using SOAP and GENA payloads, the DockingHostNotification element in the Delete Persistent WDN Notification GENA event may include or consist of the following XML element: 
     The delete persistent WDN notification  1702  may include or consist of a GENA event that includes DockingHostNotification element, and may include or consist of the following XML element in some examples: 
     
       
         
           
               
             
               
                   
               
             
            
               
                 &lt;xs:element name=“dockeeCentricWDNDeleteNotif” minOccurs=“0” &gt; 
               
               
                   &lt;xs:complexType&gt; 
               
               
                    &lt;xs:attribute name=“dockeeID” type=“xs:unsignedLong”/&gt; 
               
               
                    &lt;xs:attribute name=“WDNID” type=“xs:unsignedLong”/&gt; 
               
               
                   &lt;/xs:complexType&gt; 
               
               
                 &lt;/xs:element&gt; 
               
               
                   
               
            
           
         
       
     
     In examples using a binary protocol message format, wireless docking center  120  may send a delete persistent WDN notification  1702  with a binary message with a message body as shown below in Table 21. 
     
       
         
           
               
             
               
                 TABLE 21 
               
             
            
               
                   
               
               
                 Delete Persistent WDN Notification 
               
            
           
           
               
               
               
               
            
               
                   
                 Field 
                 Length (Octets) 
                 Type 
               
               
                   
               
               
                   
                 WDN_ID 
                 1 
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       FIG. 18  is a flowchart illustrating an example method in accordance with one or more examples of this disclosure. The method of  FIG. 18  may correspond to some examples of actions performed by wireless dockee  110  in docking session procedure  300  of  FIG. 3  among other procedures disclosed herein, and may be performed by a wireless dockee  110 , in some examples. The wireless dockee  110  may query a wireless docking host for information on peripheral functions available via the wireless docking host ( 1802 ). The wireless dockee  110  may exchange authentication and association information with the wireless docking host ( 1804 ). The wireless dockee  110  may send a request to set up a packet-based communication connection with the wireless docking host ( 1806 ). The wireless dockee  110  may send a request to set up a docking session over the packet-based communication connection with the wireless docking host ( 1808 ). The wireless dockee  110  may send an inquiry request to the wireless docking host for information on peripheral functions available via the wireless docking host based on the authentication and association information ( 1810 ). The wireless dockee  110  may send a request to select one or more of the peripheral functions from the wireless docking host ( 1812 ). The wireless dockee  110  may send a request to set up one or more payload connections with the wireless docking host wherein the one or more payload connections are configured to communicate data via the wireless docking host for the selected one or more peripheral functions ( 1814 ). 
       FIG. 19  is a flowchart illustrating another example method in accordance with one or more examples of this disclosure. The method of  FIG. 19  may correspond to some examples of payload connection setup procedure  360  of  FIGS. 3 and 8  among other payload connection setup procedures disclosed herein, and may be performed by a wireless dockee  110 , in some examples. The wireless dockee  110  may receive a response to the request to set up the one or more payload connections ( 1902 ). The wireless dockee  110  may exchange, with the wireless docking host, a new set of authentication and association information for the one or more payload connections that carry peripheral connection data ( 1904 ). This payload connection authentication and association information may therefore be a new set of authentication and association information, separate from and independent of the authentication and association information associated with the docking session. The wireless dockee  110  may exchange the payload connection authentication and association information for the one or more payload connections with the wireless docking host using any of a number of different authentication and/or association formats, protocols, or other communications, at any of various communication layers. In some examples, wireless dockee  110  may exchange the payload connection authentication and association information with the wireless docking host in layer 2 communications (i.e., communications in the data link layer in the OSI model). In some examples, wireless dockee  110  may exchange the payload connection authentication and association information with the wireless docking host in IP (Internet Protocol) transport layer communications (e.g., communications in TCP/IP, UDP/IP, etc.). In some examples, wireless dockee  110  may exchange the payload connection authentication and association information with the wireless docking host in application layer communications (e.g., HTTP, SIP, etc.) 
       FIG. 20  is a flowchart illustrating another example method in accordance with one or more examples of this disclosure. The method of  FIG. 20  may correspond to some examples of persistent wireless docking environment (WDN) creation procedures  1202 ,  1302 , and  1304  of  FIGS. 12 and 13  and subsequent use of the persistent WDN&#39;s, and may be performed by either a wireless dockee  110  or a wireless docking host  120 , in some examples. The wireless dockee  110  or wireless docking host  120  may store configuration data for the selected one or more peripheral functions to persist after the docking session ( 2002 ), e.g., as a persistent wireless docking environment (WDN). The wireless dockee  110  or wireless docking host  120  may apply the stored configuration data for the selected one or more peripheral functions in establishing a subsequent docking session with the wireless dockee  110  or wireless docking host  120  ( 2004 ). 
       FIG. 21  is a flowchart illustrating another example method in accordance with one or more examples of this disclosure. The method of  FIG. 21  may correspond to some examples of actions performed by wireless docking host  120  in docking session procedure  300  of  FIG. 3  among other procedures disclosed herein, and may be performed by a wireless docking host  120 , in some examples. The wireless docking host  120  may respond to a query from a wireless device for information on available peripheral functions by sending peripheral function information to the wireless device ( 2102 ). The wireless docking host  120  may exchange authentication and association information with the wireless device ( 2104 ). The wireless docking host  120  may respond to a request from the wireless device to set up a packet-based communication connection by sending a connection setup response to the wireless device ( 2106 ). The wireless docking host  120  may respond to a request from the wireless device to set up a docking session over the packet-based communication connection by sending a docking session response to the wireless device ( 2108 ). The wireless docking host  120  may respond to an inquiry request from the wireless device for information on peripheral functions available based on the authentication and association information by sending a response to the inquiry request to the wireless device ( 2110 ). The wireless docking host  120  may respond to a selection request from the wireless device indicating one or more selected peripheral functions from the peripheral functions by sending a response to the selection request to the wireless device ( 2112 ). The wireless docking host  120  may respond to a payload connection request from the wireless device indicating one or more payload connections configured to communicate data via for the one or more selected peripheral functions by sending a response to the payload connection request to the wireless device ( 2114 ). 
       FIG. 22  is a flowchart illustrating another example method in accordance with one or more examples of this disclosure. The method of  FIG. 22  may correspond to some examples of peripheral function change notification procedure  1100  of  FIG. 11 , and may be performed by a wireless docking host  120 , in some examples. The wireless docking host  120  may detect a new change in the available peripheral functions ( 2202 ). The wireless docking host  120  may send a notice of the new change in the available peripheral functions to the wireless device ( 2204 ). 
       FIG. 23  is a flowchart illustrating another example method in accordance with one or more examples of this disclosure. Portions of method of  FIG. 23  may correspond to some examples of portions of procedure  300  of  FIG. 3  and/or procedure  360  of  FIG. 8 , and may be performed by a wireless dockee device  110 , in some examples. A wireless dockee device  110  may send a request to a wireless docking host  120  to select one or more peripheral functions available via the wireless docking host  120  in accordance with authentication and association information associated with a docking session with the wireless docking host  120  ( 2302 ). The wireless dockee device  110  may send a request to the wireless docking host to establish one or more payload connections with the wireless docking host  120 , wherein the one or more payload connections are configured to communicate data via the wireless docking host  120  for the selected one or more peripheral functions ( 2304 ). 
       FIG. 24  is a flowchart illustrating another example method in accordance with one or more examples of this disclosure. Portions of method of  FIG. 23  may correspond to some examples of portions of procedure  300  of  FIG. 3  and/or procedure  360  of  FIG. 8 , and may be performed by a wireless docking host  120 , in some examples. A wireless docking host  120  may respond to a peripheral function selection request from a wireless dockee device  110  indicating one or more selected peripheral functions in accordance with authentication and association information associated with a docking session by sending a peripheral function selection response comprising information associated with the one or more selected peripheral functions ( 2402 ). The wireless docking host  120  may respond to a payload connection request from the wireless dockee device  110  indicating one or more payload connections configured to communicate data for the one or more selected peripheral functions by sending a payload connection response to the wireless device, the payload connection response comprising information associated with establishing the one or more payload connections ( 2404 ). 
     It is to be recognized that depending on the example, certain acts or events of any of the techniques described herein can be performed in a different sequence, may be added, merged, or left out altogether (e.g., not all described acts or events are necessary for the practice of the techniques). Moreover, in certain examples, acts or events may be performed concurrently, e.g., through multi-threaded processing, interrupt processing, or multiple processors, rather than sequentially. 
     In one or more examples, the functions described may be implemented in hardware, software, firmware, or any combination thereof. If implemented in software, the functions may be stored on or transmitted over as one or more instructions or code on a computer-readable medium and executed by a hardware-based processing unit. Computer-readable media may include computer-readable storage media, which corresponds to a tangible medium such as data storage media, or communication media including any medium that facilitates transfer of a computer program from one place to another, e.g., according to a communication protocol. In this manner, computer-readable media generally may correspond to (1) tangible computer-readable storage media which is non-transitory or (2) a communication medium such as a signal or carrier wave. Data storage media may be any available media that can be accessed by one or more computers or one or more processors to retrieve instructions, code and/or data structures for implementation of the techniques described in this disclosure. A computer program product may include a computer-readable medium. 
     By way of example, and not limitation, such computer-readable storage media can comprise RAM, ROM, EEPROM, CD-ROM or other optical disk storage, magnetic disk storage, or other magnetic storage devices, flash memory, or any other medium that can be used to store desired program code in the form of instructions or data structures and that can be accessed by a computer. Also, any connection is properly termed a computer-readable medium. For example, if instructions are transmitted from a website, server, or other remote source using a coaxial cable, fiber optic cable, twisted pair, digital subscriber line (DSL), or wireless technologies such as infrared, radio, and microwave, then the coaxial cable, fiber optic cable, twisted pair, DSL, or wireless technologies such as infrared, radio, and microwave are included in the definition of medium. It should be understood, however, that computer-readable storage media and data storage media do not include connections, carrier waves, signals, or other transitory media, but are instead directed to non-transitory, tangible storage media. Disk and disc, as used herein, includes compact disc (CD), laser disc, optical disc, digital versatile disc (DVD), floppy disk and Blu-ray disc, where disks usually reproduce data magnetically, while discs reproduce data optically with lasers. Combinations of the above should also be included within the scope of computer-readable media. 
     Instructions may be executed by one or more processors, such as one or more digital signal processors (DSPs), general purpose microprocessors, application specific integrated circuits (ASICs), field programmable logic arrays (FPGAs), or other equivalent integrated or discrete logic circuitry. Accordingly, the term “processor,” as used herein may refer to any of the foregoing structure or any other structure suitable for implementation of the techniques described herein. In addition, in some aspects, the functionality described herein may be provided within dedicated hardware and/or software modules configured for encoding and decoding, or incorporated in a combined codec. Also, the techniques could be fully implemented in one or more circuits or logic elements. 
     The techniques of this disclosure may be implemented in a wide variety of devices or apparatuses, including a wireless handset, an integrated circuit (IC) or a set of ICs (e.g., a chip set). Various components, modules, or units are described in this disclosure to emphasize functional aspects of devices configured to perform the disclosed techniques, but do not necessarily require realization by different hardware units. Rather, as described above, various units may be combined in a codec hardware unit or provided by a collection of interoperative hardware units, including one or more processors as described above, in conjunction with suitable software and/or firmware. 
     Various examples have been described. These and other examples are within the scope of the following claims.