18974673. TEMPORARY PAIRING FOR WIRELESS DEVICES (Apple Inc.)
TEMPORARY PAIRING FOR WIRELESS DEVICES
Organization Name
Inventor(s)
Natalia A. Fornshell of Woodinville WA US
Aarti Kumar of Los Altos CA US
Robert D. Watson of Menlo Park CA US
Ariane Cotte of San Francisco CA US
Marc J. Krochmal of Santa Clara CA US
Sarang S. Ranade of Saratoga CA US
Akshay Mangalam Srivatsa of San Jose CA US
TEMPORARY PAIRING FOR WIRELESS DEVICES
This abstract first appeared for US patent application 18974673 titled 'TEMPORARY PAIRING FOR WIRELESS DEVICES
Original Abstract Submitted
A device providing temporary pairing for wireless devices may include a memory and at least one processor configured to receive a request to temporarily pair with a wireless device. The at least one processor may be further configured to pair with the wireless device, wherein the pairing comprises generating a link key for connecting to the wireless device. The at least one processor may be further configured to connect to the wireless device using the link key. The at least one processor may be further configured to initiate a timer upon disconnecting from the wireless device. The at least one processor may be further configured to automatically and without user input, delete the link key when the timer reaches a timeout value without having reconnected to the wireless device using the link key.
- Apple Inc.
- Natalia A. Fornshell of Woodinville WA US
- Aarti Kumar of Los Altos CA US
- Robert D. Watson of Menlo Park CA US
- Ariane Cotte of San Francisco CA US
- Bob Bradley of San Jose CA US
- Marc J. Krochmal of Santa Clara CA US
- Kang Sun of Los Gatos CA US
- Chen Ganir of San Jose CA US
- Sarang S. Ranade of Saratoga CA US
- Akshay Mangalam Srivatsa of San Jose CA US
- H04W12/50
- H04W4/80
- H04W12/041
- H04W12/0471
- H04W12/61
- H04W12/63
- CPC H04W12/50
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