Cross-Device Guest Pairing and Sensor Data Routing
AssigneeApple Inc.
InventorsJacob S WEISS, Sriram HARIHARAN
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Abstract
An apparatus configured to connect to a wireless communication device associated with a wireless audio output device for a first communication session between the apparatus and the wireless communication device, receive an encryption key from the wireless communication device, establish a guest pairing link with the wireless audio output device using the encryption key and generate, for transmission to the wireless audio output device, audio data for the communication session.
Claims20
An apparatus comprising processing circuitry coupled to memory, wherein the processing circuitry is configured to:
- connect to a wireless communication device associated with a wireless audio output device for a first communication session between the apparatus and the wireless communication device;
- receive an encryption key from the wireless communication device;
- establish a guest pairing link with the wireless audio output device using the encryption key;
- and
- generate, for transmission to the wireless audio output device, audio data for the communication session.
An apparatus comprising processing circuitry coupled to memory, wherein the processing circuitry is configured to:
- connect to a wireless communication device associated with a wireless audio output device for a first communication session between the apparatus and the wireless communication device;
- establish a link with the wireless audio output device;
- advertise that sensor data is available from the wireless audio output device;
- receive a request from the wireless communication device for the sensor data;
- forward the request for sensor data to the wireless audio output device;
- receive sensor data from the wireless audio output device in response to the forwarded request;
- and
- cause transceiver circuitry to forward the sensor data to the wireless communication device.
An apparatus comprising processing circuitry coupled to memory, wherein the processing circuitry is configured to:
- connect to a secondary source device for a first communication session between the apparatus and the secondary source device;
- determine that audio for the first communication session is desired to be though a wireless audio output device associated with the apparatus;
- generate, for transmission to the secondary source device, an encryption key configured to allow the secondary source device to establish a guest pairing link with the wireless audio output device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.