US 11,109,208 B2 · Bluetooth profile fast connect

Bluetooth profile fast connect

AssigneeApple Inc.

InventorsAkshay Mangalam Srivatsa, Ariane Cotte, Craig P. Dooley, Duy N. Phan, Ganesha Adkasthala Ganapathi Batta, Hyundoo Shin, Kang Sun, Matt I. Gillette, Michael Jason Giles, Robert D. Watson, Sean P. Wilson, Sriram Hariharan, Sujatha Viswanathan, Todd Wheeler, Yilok L. Wong, David John Shaw, Sarang S. Ranade

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Abstract

Methods for aggregating Bluetooth profiles for faster connection and configuration are disclosed, including transmitting, subsequent to establishing a connection, a request message to a peer device that indicates support of a fast connection protocol for Bluetooth profiles configuration and receiving a response message from the peer device that indicates the peer device supports the fast connection protocol. After pairing with the peer device, a first list of profile descriptors for a plurality of Bluetooth profiles supported by the device may be transmitted to the peer device and a second list of profile descriptors for a plurality of Bluetooth profiles supported by the peer device may be received. A configuration of a plurality of Bluetooth profiles base, at least in part, on a comparison of the first list of profile descriptors to the second list of profile descriptors may be determined and transmitted to the peer device.

Claims20

Dependent claims

A wireless station, comprising:

at least one antenna;
at least one radio in communication with the at least one antenna and configured to perform communications via a Bluetooth interface;
and
at least one processor in communication with the at least one radio;
wherein the at least one processor is configured to cause the wireless station to:
transmit, over a first channel after establishment of a Bluetooth connection with a peer wireless station, a request message to the peer wireless station, wherein the request message indicates support of a fast connection protocol for Bluetooth profiles configuration;
receive, over the first channel, a response message from the peer wireless station, wherein the response message indicates support of the fast connection protocol;
and
pair with the peer wireless station.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

16/718,240Filed 18 Dec 2019 · continuation

Priority

1 Jun 2018

Published

US 2020/0128378 A123 Apr 2020

Granted

31 Aug 2021

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Classification7 codes

H04W 4/80
Services specially adapted for wireless communication networks; Facilities therefor: services using short range communication, e.g. near-field…
H04W 84/18
Network topologies: self-organising networks, e.g. ad-hoc networks or sensor networks
H04W 8/005
Network data management: discovery of network devices, e.g. terminals
H04W 76/11
Connection setup: allocation or use of connection identifiers

Family

Application62/679,662Us provisional application · filed 1 Jun 2018

Application16/240,911Parent of this continuation · filed 7 Jan 2019

US 2020/0128378 A1Pre-grant publication · published 23 Apr 2020

US 10,542,405 B2Parent of this continuation

US 2019/0373430 A1Published application

US 11,109,208 B2This patent

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