Methods and devices for facilitating bluetooth pairing using a camera as a barcode scanner
AssigneeBlackBerry Limited
InventorsMichael Stephen Brown, Herbert Anthony Little
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Abstract
Embodiments of the systems, devices and methods described herein generally facilitate performing Bluetooth pairing between a first device and a second device. In accordance with one example embodiment, a first device generates a barcode that encodes Bluetooth pairing data for transmission to the second device, wherein the pairing data comprises a Bluetooth address associated with the first device, and wherein the pairing data further comprises a personal identification number usable to complete the Bluetooth pairing, the barcode is transmitted to the second device, and Bluetooth pairing is performed with the second device.
Claims20
A method for short-range communication pairing, the method comprising:
- at a processor of a first communication device, receiving an optical representation of security parameters associated with a second communication device and usable to complete a short-range communication pairing with the second communication device;
- decoding the optical representation at the processor, to obtain the security parameters;
- and
- automatically performing the short-range communication pairing using the security parameters, in response to obtaining the security parameters from the optical representation.
A communication device, comprising:
- a memory;
- a short-range communication transceiver;
- and
- a processor configured to:
- receive an optical representation of security parameters associated with a second communication device and usable to complete a short-range communication pairing with the second communication device;
- decode the optical representation at the processor, to obtain the security parameters;
- and
- in response to obtaining the security parameters from the optical representation, automatically perform the short-range communication pairing using the security parameters.
A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium including a plurality of computer-readable instructions for execution by a processor of a communication device to:
- receive an optical representation of security parameters associated with a second communication device and usable to complete a short-range communication pairing with the second communication device;
- decode the optical representation at the processor, to obtain the security parameters;
- and
- in response to obtaining the security parameters from the optical representation, automatically perform the short-range communication pairing using the security parameters.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.