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IP ASSIGNMENT SCHEME FOR DYNAMIC PEER-TO-PEER NETWORKS

  • US 20100054154A1
  • Filed: 07/09/2009
  • Published: 03/04/2010
  • Est. Priority Date: 07/11/2008
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method for configuring a local station to communicate with one or more peer stations via a wireless network, the method comprising:

  • receiving a message from a peer station;

    parsing the received message to retrieve a peer station information element, the peer station information element including a peer station network address and a peer station bitmap that indicates at least one of allocated and unallocated network addresses within a set of network addresses;

    selecting a first portion of a local station network address for the local station based on the peer station network address; and

    selecting a second portion of the local station network address for the local station corresponding to a network address indicated as unallocated in the peer station bitmap.

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