SELECTIVE DESCOVERY METHOD AND APPARATUS USING CUSTOMER CATEGORY IN DEVICE TO DEVICE COMMUNICATION SERVICE

摘要

A method and an apparatus for selective discovery using a customer category in a device-to-device (D2D) communication service are disclosed. A method of selectively discovering service providing devices that provide services via D2D communication using a mobile communication network comprises the steps of: receiving, by a server for managing information about the service providing devices, information about a user equipment from the user equipment; verifying whether the user equipment corresponds to a preset customer category using the received information about the user equipment based on a service customer category table comprising information about a customer category that is the information about the user equipment provided with the services of the service providing devices; and selectively transmitting information about the services provided by the service providing devices to the user equipment based on a verification result.