Pre-authentication for short-range wireless communications with peripheral devices

Abstract

A method in a host computing device of establishing a short-range wireless connection with a peripheral device includes: responsive to detecting the peripheral device, initiating a pairing mechanism with the peripheral device; exchanging attribute data with the peripheral device; in response to determining, based on the attribute data, that the peripheral device supports a pre-authentication mechanism, exchanging pre-authentication data with the peripheral device; based on the exchanged pre-authentication data, selecting either (i) a first pairing action or (ii) a second pairing action; and controlling the pairing mechanism according to the selected one of the first pairing action and the second pairing action.

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