Method and apparatus for bluetooth low energy advertising
AssigneeMicrochip Technology Incorporated
InventorsKiran Allapattana Venkataramanegowda, Andrew M. Bottomley
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Abstract
A method for advertising a Bluetooth low energy (BLE) peripheral device is provided. The method may include partially booting up a processing circuitry of the BLE peripheral device to enter an advertising mode, transmitting a first advertising packet, receiving a response to the first advertising packet from a BLE central device, wherein the response includes a predetermined time, determining whether a complete boot-up time needed to complete boot-up of the processing circuitry is greater than the predetermined time, and in response to determining that the complete boot-up time is not greater than the predetermined time, completing boot-up of the processing circuitry.
Claims20
A method for advertising a Bluetooth low energy (BLE) peripheral device, the method comprising:
- partially booting up a processing circuitry of the BLE peripheral device to enter an advertising mode;
- transmitting a first advertising packet;
- receiving a response to the first advertising packet from a BLE central device, wherein the response includes a predetermined time;
- determining whether a complete boot-up time needed to complete boot-up of the processing circuitry is greater than the predetermined time;
- and
- in response to determining that the complete boot-up time is not greater than the predetermined time, completing boot-up of the processing circuitry.
A method for advertising a Bluetooth low energy (BLE) peripheral device, the method comprising:
- partially booting up a processing circuitry of the BLE peripheral device to enter an advertising mode;
- transmitting a first advertising packet on a first channel;
- transmitting, in response to not receiving a response to the first advertising packet, one or more additional advertising packets on respective one or more additional channels;
- in response to not receiving a response to any of the additional advertising packets, exiting the advertising mode and entering a deep sleep mode;
- in response to receiving a response to any of the additional advertising packets, determining whether a complete boot-up time needed to complete boot-up of the processing circuitry is greater than a predetermined time contained in the response;
- and
- in response to determining that the complete boot-up time is not greater than the predetermined time, completing boot-up of the processing circuitry.
A Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) peripheral device comprising:
- processing circuitry;
- a memory unit;
- and
- a radio;
- wherein the processing circuitry is to complete a partial boot-up process to enter an advertising mode;
- wherein the radio is to transmit a first advertising packet, and receive a response to the first advertising packet from a BLE central device, wherein the response includes a predetermined time;
- wherein the processing circuitry is to determine whether a complete boot-up time needed to complete boot-up of the processing circuitry is greater than the predetermined time;
- wherein, in response to determining that the complete boot-up time is less than the predetermined time, the processing circuitry is to complete boot-up.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.