System and method of Bluetooth silent pairing of a peripheral device with virtual pairing slots

A method of silently pairing a plurality of information handling systems to a wireless peripheral device comprising:

• detecting, with the hardware microcontroller of the wireless peripheral device, the presence of a dongle at an information handling system from dongle transmissions, the dongle to transceive wireless data between the wireless peripheral device and the dongle at the information handling system;
• executing computer-readable program code of a silent virtual slot provisioning module with the hardware microcontroller to, where the dongle is detected, request Bluetooth or Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) pairing pre-authorization data from the information handling system via the dongle to generate Bluetooth or BLE pairing data to conduct a Bluetooth or BLE wireless pairing with the information handling system;
• executing the computer-readable program code of the silent virtual slot provisioning module with the hardware microcontroller to map the generated Bluetooth or BLE pairing data to a first virtual pairing slot among a plurality of virtual pairing slots at a first manual pairing channel on the wireless peripheral device among a plurality of manual pairing channels;
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• executing the computer-readable program code of the silent virtual slot provisioning module with the hardware microcontroller to prioritize transceptions via the dongle by maintaining wireless transceptions with the information handling system via the dongle when the dongle is detected and switch to the first virtual pairing slot to use a Bluetooth or BLE wireless communication when the dongle is not detected.

A wireless peripheral device comprising:

• a hardware microcontroller;
• a data storage device;
• a wireless radio to operatively pair the wireless peripheral device to a plurality of information handling systems having a plurality of manual pairing channels;
• a power management unit to provide power to the hardware microcontroller, the data storage device, and the wireless radio;
• a plurality of manual pairing channels selectable by a user via actuation of a manual channel selection button;
• the hardware microcontroller to detect the presence of a dongle installed at a first information handling system to wirelessly transceive wireless data between the wireless peripheral device and the dongle at the first information handling system;
• the hardware microcontroller to execute computer-readable program code of a silent virtual slot provisioning module to, where the dongle is detected, request Bluetooth or Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) pairing pre-authorization data from the information handling system to generate Bluetooth or BLE pairing data and to conduct a Bluetooth or BLE wireless pairing with the information handling system;
• the hardware processor to execute the computer-readable program code of the silent virtual slot provisioning module to map the generated Bluetooth or BLE pairing data to a first virtual pairing slot among a plurality of virtual pairing slots at a first manual pairing channel for dongle wireless communications on the wireless peripheral device among a plurality of manual pairing channels of the wireless peripheral device;
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• the hardware microcontroller to execute the computer-readable program code of the silent virtual slot provisioning module to prioritize transceptions via the dongle by maintaining wireless transceptions with the information handling system via the dongle when the dongle is detected and switch to the first virtual pairing slot to use a Bluetooth or BLE wireless communication when the dongle is not detected.