Patent ID: 8341493

Claim:
A method for identifying matched mobile stations, the method comprising: receiving by a first mobile station signals from a plurality of mobile stations located within a threshold distance of the first mobile station; identifying a first group of mobile stations of the plurality of mobile stations, the first group being those mobile stations that meet a threshold requirement; receiving uni-cast control information from a network entity, wherein the uni-cast control information comprises scheduling information for a second group of mobile stations, wherein the scheduling information for each mobile station of the second group comprises a scrambled information element and a scrambled cyclic redundancy check (CRC), wherein each mobile station of the second group is a candidate for matching to a mobile station of the first group; for each mobile station of the first group, identifying a first scrambling sequence to be applied to an information element of an associated mobile station and a second scrambling sequence to be applied to a CRC of the associated mobile station; for each mobile station of the first group, obtaining first data by performing a CRC on the first scrambling sequence, which is then effectively logically XOR-ed to the second scrambling sequence; for each mobile station of the second group, obtaining second data by performing a CRC on the scrambled information element, which is then effectively logically XOR-ed to the scrambled CRC; for each mobile station of the first group, identifying a matched mobile station based upon the first data of a mobile station of the first group effectively matching the second data of a mobile station of the second group; and generating a descrambled information element, for each matched mobile station of the first group by using the first scrambling sequence that is associated with the matched mobile station, to descramble the scrambled information element of the mobile station of the second group that is matched to the mobile station of the first group.