US 2014/0195920 A1 · REMOTE DEVICE PAIRING SETUP

Abstract

A communication device having a display and instructions for displaying a short range wireless function. The instructions can cause the display of a Toolkit homepage in response to a Toolkit application being selected in a homepage of the communication device. In response to the short range wireless function being selected in the Toolkit homepage, status of the short range wireless function on the communication device can be displayed. In response to the short range wireless function being turned on, a short range wireless function menu can be displayed. In response to a pairing option being selected from the displayed short range wireless function menu, menu options for pairing a short range wireless device with the communication device can be displayed.

Claims20

Dependent claims

A communications device comprising:

a display;
a wireless communication system;
a processor communicatively coupled to the display and the wireless communication system;
and
a non-transitory memory having stored therein instructions which, when executed by the processor, cause the communications device to:
render on the display a plurality of icons, at least one icon of the plurality of icons being configured to launch a wireless set-up application associated with the wireless communication system;
and
render on the display a status indicator associated with the at least one icon, the status indicator conveying whether the communications device is paired with an external wireless device via the wireless set-up application.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application

14/202,862Filed 10 Mar 2014

Priority

16 Jul 2010

Published

10 Jul 2014

Term ends

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Classification8 codes

G06F 3/04817
Based on specific properties of the displayed interaction object or a metaphor-based environment, e.g. interaction with desktop elements like…:…
H04M 1/72412
By interfacing with external accessories: using two-way short-range wireless interfaces
H04M 1/72469
User interfaces specially adapted for cordless or mobile telephones: for operating the device by selecting functions from two or more displayed…
H04W 4/80
Services specially adapted for wireless communication networks; Facilities therefor: services using short range communication, e.g. near-field…

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Application61/365,117Us provisional application · filed 16 Jul 2010

Application12/916,857Continuation · filed 1 Nov 2010

Application14/202,862Continuation

US 2012/0015604 A1Published application

US 8,712,327 B2Related patent

US 9,471,196 B2Related patent

US 2014/0195920 A1This patent

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Abstract

Claims20