Pairing Groups of Accessories

Organization Name

apple inc.

Inventor(s)

Siva Ganesh Movva of Cupertino CA (US)

Tunc Ertan of San Francisco CA (US)

Ariane Cotte of San Francisco CA (US)

Kerry Nguyen of Milpitas CA (US)

Anita Desai of San Francisco CA (US)

Steven Douglas Laver of San Diego CA (US)

Brent Ledvina of San Francisco CA (US)

Kenneth U. Victa of San Jose CA (US)

Ping-Ko Chiu of San Francisco CA (US)

Michal Adam Kaluzny of Berlin (DE)

Pairing Groups of Accessories

This abstract first appeared for US patent application 20250088826 titled 'Pairing Groups of Accessories

Original Abstract Submitted

embodiments that relate to pairing and finding a group of accessory devices are described. in an embodiment, a pairing status is received from a first accessory device, a request is sent to the first accessory device for information on a number of accessory devices in a device group and a number of accessory devices that are proximate to the first accessory device in the device group, information on a second accessory device in the device group is received, a continue pairing message is sent to the second accessory device if the second accessory device is proximate, and a device group profile is created with information on the number of parts and received information on the second accessory device.