NETWORK PAIRING OF WIRELESS COMMUNICATION DEVICES THROUGH ONE OR MORE INTERMEDIATE DEVICES

摘要

A system (100) and method (300, 400) for network pairing with two or more wireless communication devices (102, 108), in which each device includes a wireless transceiver (202, 204). For each device (102, 108), the wireless transceiver (202, 204) has indirect communication with the other communication device via a first ad hoc connection (106, 112) to an intermediate communication device (104, 110), and is capable of direct communication with the other communication device via a second ad hoc connection (114). The wireless transceivers (202, 204) of the wireless communication devices (102, 108) exchange network address information needed for paired communication between the devices, thus minimizing the need to search and discovery for paired communication.