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- Patent Title: Method and system for initial synchronization and collision avoidance in device to device communications without network coverage
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Application No.: US18093104Application Date: 2023-01-04
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Publication No.: US12058749B2Publication Date: 2024-08-06
- Inventor: Nam Nguyen , Yufei Wu Blankenship , Sagar Dhakal
- Applicant: BlackBerry Limited
- Applicant Address: CA Waterloo
- Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
- Current Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
- Current Assignee Address: CA Waterloo
- Agency: Fish & Richardson P.C.
- The original application number of the division: US13962708 2013.08.08
- Main IPC: H04W76/14
- IPC: H04W76/14 ; H04B7/26 ; H04W4/70 ; H04W8/00 ; H04W56/00 ; H04W72/02 ; H04W72/0446 ; H04W74/0833

Abstract:
A method at a first device for enabling a device-to-device wireless link, the method detecting whether a presence signal of a second device is received over a first time period, the presence signal of the second device having a time-slot boundary; and if the presence signal of the second device is not detected, initiating a time-slot boundary by the first device including: transmitting a first presence signal of the first device in a selected time-slot; and checking for an acknowledgment to the first presence signal.
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