Patent attributes
Wireless discovery is the process in which a service or application is located by a wireless station on a network, usually after the station has established a connection with the network. Wireless pre-association refers to the process of describing an application or service by its hardware/software interoperability requirements and/or a unique identifier prior to a connection being established between two or more wireless stations. A method performs wireless discovery between two or more wireless stations by communicating a data string between a wireless station and another wireless station, prior to a connection having been established between the wireless station and another wireless station, the data string including interoperability information necessary for a service or an application to run on a wireless station receiving the data string.
