Patent ID: 8924514

Claim:
A method of performing a Service Group (SG) Owner Transfer procedure in a communication system, the method comprising: transmitting a SG Owner transfer request message from a first personal network element (PNE) to a first personal network (PN) gateway (GW), from the first PN GW to a Converged Personal Network Service (CPNS) Server, from the CPNS Server to a second PN GW, and from the second PN GW to a second PNE, to request to perform transfer SG ownership, wherein an original SG with an original SG owner comprises the first PNE; and transmitting a SG owner transfer response message from the second PNE to the second PN GW, from the second PN GW to the CPNS Server, from the CPNS Server to the first PN GW, and from the first PN GW to the first PNE, to respond to the SG Owner transfer request message; wherein the SG Owner transfer request message comprises at least one information element (IE) of a first PNE ID, a first PN ID, a first SG ID, a CandidatePNE ID and a reason to change, or the SG Owner transfer response message comprises at least one IE of an Accept, a second PNE ID, a second PN ID and a second SG ID.