Patent ID: 8385316

Claim:
A method of operating a first wireless communications device, comprising: accessing stored peer to peer timing structure information, said stored timing structure information defining a pattern of different types of time intervals, said different types of time intervals including at least a peer discovery interval and a traffic interval; and using said accessed stored peer to peer timing structure information in determining an operation to be performed during a current time period, wherein said pattern of different types of time intervals repeats over time and has a predetermined periodicity defining a period and each period includes at least one peer discovery interval, at least one traffic interval, and at least one paging interval, wherein during each period, a total time allocated to traffic intervals is at least 10 times a total time allocated to paging intervals, wherein each period further includes a timing synchronization interval during which the first wireless device can collect signal timing data from a signal received from a peer device, said signal timing data being for use in adjusting a symbol timing of the first wireless device.