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Apparatus, system and method of communicating a beacon frame

US9763074B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateMar 27, 2015
Grant dateSep 12, 2017
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Expiry dateOct 2, 2035

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  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04L27/261
  • WIPO fieldDigital communication
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

Some demonstrative embodiments include apparatuses, systems and/or methods of communicating a beacon frame. For example, a wireless station may be configured to 2generate a beacon frame having one or more fields including Neighbor Awareness Networking (NAN) information; and transmit the beacon frame over a Sub 1 Gigahertz (GHz) (S1G) band according to a discovery scheme including a plurality of NAN Discovery Windows (DW).

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