Method And Technical Equipment For Short Range Data Transmission
AssigneeSilicon Laboratories Finland OY
InventorJere Knaappila
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Abstract
The invention relates to a method and an apparatus and a computer program product. The apparatus is capable of transmitting a first advertisement packet indicating that an advertising device is scannable; receiving a scan request from at least one scanning device; determining, based on the received one or more scan requests, whether a corresponding one or more scanning device is an allowed for connection; transmitting a second advertisement packet indicating that said advertising device is connectable; and receiving connection requests from the allowed at least one scanning device.
Claims15
A method, comprising:
- transmitting a first advertisement packet indicating that an advertising device is scannable;
- receiving a scan request from at least one scanning device;
- determining, based on the received one or more scan requests, whether a corresponding one or more scanning device is an allowed for connection;
- transmitting a second advertisement packet indicating that said advertising device is connectable;
- receiving connection requests from the allowed at least one scanning device.
An apparatus comprising processing means and memory means, wherein the apparatus is configured to
- transmit a first advertisement packet indicating that an advertising device is scannable;
- receive a scan request from at least one scanning device;
- determine, based on the received scan requests, whether a corresponding scanning device is an allowed for connection;
- transmit a second advertisement packet indicating that said advertising device is connectable;
- receive connection requests from the allowed at least one scanning device.
A computer program product embodied on a computer readable medium, comprising computer program code configured to, when executed on at least one processor, cause an apparatus or a system to:
- transmit a first advertisement packet indicating that an advertising device is scannable;
- receive a scan request from at least one scanning device;
- determine, based on the received scan requests, whether a corresponding scanning device is an allowed for connection;
- transmit a second advertisement packet indicating that said advertising device is connectable;
- receive connection requests from the allowed at least one scanning device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.