Process for transmitting phone book data from a mobile telephone to an external device and an external device
AssigneeBayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
InventorsThomas Sykora, Axel Nitsche
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Abstract
A process is provided for transmitting phone book data from a mobile telephone to an external device, wherein a Bluetooth communication channel is established between the mobile telephone and the external device. Based on the Bluetooth communication channel, as the first Bluetooth service, a Bluetooth telephony service is established. A transmission of phone book data from the mobile phone to the external device is initiated based on one of at least two predetermined manners of access.
Claims16
A process for transmitting phone book data from a mobile telephone to an external device, the process comprising the acts of:
- establishing a Bluetooth communication channel between the mobile telephone and the external device;
- establishing a Bluetooth telephony service as a first Bluetooth service based on the Bluetooth communication channel;
- determining a first type of access, from at least two predetermined manners of Bluetooth access, to use in a first attempted transmission of phone book data without checking whether said mobile phone is compatible with the first type of access;
- initiating the first attempted transmission of phone book data from the mobile phone to the external device based on the first type of access, and
- initiating, in the event the first attempted transmission fails, a second attempted transmission of the phone book data from the mobile phone to the external device based on a second type of access from the at least two predetermined manners.
An external device, comprising:
- a Bluetooth transmission device equipped for alternative access to phone book data of a mobile telephone in at least two different predetermined types of access;
- and
- a control device equipped such that a Bluetooth communication channel is establishable between the mobile telephone and the external device;
- and
- wherein, based on the Bluetooth communication channel, a Bluetooth telephony service is established as a first Bluetooth service and a determination of a first type of access, of at least two predetermined manners of Bluetooth access, to use in a first attempted transmission of phone book data is made without checking whether said mobile phone is compatible with said first type of access, and wherein the first attempted transmission of phone book data from the mobile telephone to the external device is initiated based on the first type of access determined from at least two predetermined types of Bluetooth access, and, in the event that the first attempted transmission fails, a second attempted transmission of the phone book data from the mobile phone to the external device is initiated based on a second type of access from the at least two predetermined manners.
A process for transmitting phone book data from a mobile telephone to an external device, the process comprising the acts of:
- establishing a Bluetooth communication channel between the mobile telephone and the external device;
- establishing a Bluetooth Hands-Free Profile as a first Bluetooth service based on the Bluetooth communication channel;
- initiating a first attempted transmission of phone book data from the mobile phone to the external device based on a first type of access without checking whether said mobile phone is compatible with the first type of access;
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- initiating, in the event the first attempted transmission fails, a second attempted transmission of the phone book data from the mobile phone to the external device based on a second type of access.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.