Exposing Bluetooth compliant wireless device connection as modems or sockets

A method of automatically routing an RFCOMM connection to an appropriate device type comprising the steps of:

• detecting a new RFCOMM device for connection and assigning a socket to the remote RFCOMM device for communications between the application and the remote RFCOMM device;
• determining whether or not the new RFCOMM device is a dial-up networking device;
• and in response to determining whether or not the new RFCOMM device is a dial-up networking device:
• enumerating a physical device object associated with the new RFCOMM device if the new RFCOMM device is a dial-up networking device;
• and
• exposing a new RFCOMM device to an application by way of a transport driver interface if the new RFCOMM device is not a dial-up networking device.

A method of using a BLUETOOTH-aware transport service module for connecting a legacy application lacking any BLUETOOTH-specific functions to a

• remote BLUETOOTH device in a manner that is transparent to the application, wherein the legacy application is hosted on a first computer and wherein the first computer also hosts a BLUETOOTH communications stack, and wherein the remote BLUETOOTH device is connectable to the first computer via a BLUETOOTH radio link, the method comprising:
• automatically detecting at the transport service module on the first computer the presence of the remote BLUETOOTH device;
• determining automatically at the transport service module whether the remote BLUETOOTH device is a dial-up network device;
• and
• in response to determining whether the remote BLUETOOTH device is a dial-up network device, automatically assigning at the transport service module an interface to the remote BLUETOOTH device, wherein the interface allows the legacy application to utilize at least a portion of the BLUETOOTH communications stack to communicate with the remote BLUETOOTH device, wherein if it is determined that the remote BLUETOOTH device is a dial-up network device, the interface appears to the application as a standard modem interfaces
• wherein automatically assigning, at the transport service module an interface to the remote BLUETOOTH device, further comprises assigning a socket to the remote BLUETOOTH device for communications between the application and the remote BLUETOOTH device.