Method and device for controlling peripheral devices via a social networking platform

A system for transmitting data between a peripheral device and a user device via a Bluetooth Low Energy connection, the system comprising:

• one or more processors;
• and
• memory having instructions stored thereon, the instructions, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the processors to perform operations comprising:
• at the user device:
• transmitting data to the peripheral device in a simulated data stream, the transmitting comprising:
• identifying a first Bluetooth characteristic for sending data to the peripheral device, the first Bluetooth characteristic having been exposed by the peripheral device to the user device in a current connection event;
• dividing a first data packet that is to be transmitted to the peripheral device into a sequence of data frames plus zero or one remainder, each data frame having a respective size equal to a predetermined data size of the identified first Bluetooth characteristic, and the remainder having a respective size smaller than the predetermined data size of the identified first Bluetooth characteristic;
• for each of the sequence of data frames, sending a respective write request to writing the data frame to a respective value of the identified first Bluetooth characteristic;
• padding the reminder to obtain a padded remainder have a respective size equal to the predetermined data size of the identified first Bluetooth characteristic;
• and
• sending a respective write request to write the padded remainder to the respective value of the identified first Bluetooth characteristic.

A non-transitory computer-readable medium having instructions stored thereon, the instructions, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the processors to perform operations comprising:

• at a user device:
• transmitting data to a peripheral device in a simulated data stream, the transmitting comprising:
• identifying a first Bluetooth characteristic for sending data to the peripheral device, the first Bluetooth characteristic having been exposed by the peripheral device to the user device in a current connection event;
• dividing a first data packet that is to be transmitted to the peripheral device into a sequence of data frames plus zero or one remainder, each data frame having a respective size equal to a predetermined data size of the identified first Bluetooth characteristic, and the remainder having a respective size smaller than the predetermined data size of the identified first Bluetooth characteristic;
• and
• for each of the sequence of data frames, sending a respective write request to writing the data frame to a respective value of the identified first Bluetooth characteristic;
• padding the reminder to obtain a padded remainder have a respective size equal to the predetermined data size of the identified first Bluetooth characteristic;
• and
• sending a respective write request to write the padded remainder to the respective value of the identified first Bluetooth characteristic.