APPOINTMENT OF LOCAL DEVICE IDENTIFIER WHEN CONNECTING FROM DEVICE TO DEVICE CARRIED OUT WITH NETWORK ASSISTANCE Russian patent published in 2017 - IPC H04W8/00 H04W76/02 H04W84/18 H04L29/12 

FIELD: information technology.

SUBSTANCE: one or more first global device identifier associated with the first wireless communication device is received from the first wireless communication device, and one or more first local device identifier is assigned to the first wireless communication device based on the received global device identifiers; in relation to the network node, a mapping is stored between each received one or more first global device identifier and each assigned one or more first local device identifier; information is transmitted indicating the assigned one or more first local device identifiers and how to transmit the beacon to the first wireless communication device, and information about indicating one of the assigned one or more first local device identifiers is transmitted to the first group from one or more other wireless communication devices.

EFFECT: eliminating the cumbersome assignment of beacon signals in the network and transmitting information about their destination to the devices due to the increase in the possible number of devices.

17 cl, 8 dwg