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Abstract

Systems and techniques for managing the use of discovery resources in device to device communication-capable devices. A message is configured for transmission to one or more user devices by a base station to indicate permission or denial of discovery resources, and based on the message, one or more of the user devices receiving the message uses, or is inhibited from using, the resource. Indication of permission or denial may, in various embodiments designate all discovery resources in general, specific resources assigned to groups and allocated to a specific user device, or groups of resources, with permission or denial relating to all members of a group.

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