Patent ID: 8494007

Claim:
A method that facilitates employing a bloom filter while signaling partial identifiers for peer discovery, comprising: transmitting a first partial identifier during a first peer discovery interval; transmitting a second partial identifier during a second peer discovery interval; generating bloom filter information based upon a combination of the first partial identifier and the second partial identifier; transmitting the bloom filter information to enable a peer to link the first partial identifier and the second partial identifier; receiving a response from the second wireless terminal to the transmission of the first partial identifier and the second partial identifier; and establishing a peer-to-peer link between the first wireless terminal and the second wireless terminal based on the response, wherein the peer-to-peer link involves direct transmission between the first wireless terminal and the second wireless terminal, wherein peer discovery includes identifying at least a second wireless terminal within direct transmission range of a first wireless terminal, such that the first wireless terminal can transmit directly to the second wireless terminal.