Patent ID: 8594027

Claim:
A method for operating a first terminal to perform Peer-to-Peer (P2P) communications with a second terminal in a wireless communication system, the method comprising: performing a signaling to establish a P2P connection with the second terminal and transmitting or receiving P2P communication data with the second terminal through at least one P2P dedicated channel and at least one of P2P contention channels, wherein the first terminal performs a P2P communication with the second terminal according to a frame which comprises the P2P contention channels overlapping with at least a part of a region for cellular communications and wherein the at least one P2P dedicated channel is allocated by a base station only for P2P communications, and the P2P contention channels are contention-based channels to be used between terminals for the P2P communications, wherein the P2P communication establishes a direct connection between the two terminals.