BROADCAST AGING FOR BLUETOOTH LOW ENERGY

摘要

Disclosed herein are techniques to age filter information for a wireless network. In particular, a device to remove indications to filter beacons broadcast from another device based on the difference between a time a beacon was last received from the other device is disclosed. The device may be configured to update a filter information element each time a beacon is received from the other device and also to update an indication to filter beacons from the device based on the filter information element.

主权项

1. An apparatus for a wireless device, the apparatus comprising:
circuitry; a beacon component executable by the circuitry, the beacon component to receive a first beacon and a second beacon from a wireless device; a beacon filtering component executable by the circuitry, the beacon filtering component to create a filter information element stored in a duplication filtering table, the filter information element to include an indication to filter beacons from the wireless device and an indication of a time stamp, the time stamp corresponding to a time the first beacon was received; and a beacon filter aging component executable by the circuitry, the beacon filter aging component to update the time stamp in the filter information element, the updated time stamp to include an indication of a time the second beacon was received.