Patent ID: 7881238

Claim:
At least one tangible computer storage medium having thereon computer-executable instructions that, when executed by a computing device, cause the computing device to carry out a method of efficient joining of an existing ad hoc network, the existing ad hoc network comprising at least one device adapted to communicate in the existing ad hoc network, the method comprising: receiving an ad hoc network identifier for the existing ad hoc network, the ad hoc network identifier being a service set identifier for the existing ad hoc network, while the computing device is not communicatively connected to the existing ad hoc network, the existing ad hoc network being parameterized with at least one ad hoc network parameters; generating, with the computing device, the at least one ad hoc network parameter as an output of a calculation taking as input the ad hoc network identifier; and performing an ad hoc network formation protocol, including communicating messages according to the at least one ad hoc network parameter generated as the output of the calculation, to join the existing ad hoc network.