Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Cloud-based proximity pairing and switching for peer-to-peer devices
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Application No.: US18500739Application Date: 2023-11-02
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Publication No.: US12294927B2Publication Date: 2025-05-06
- Inventor: Akshay Mangalam Srivatsa , Craig P. Dooley , David John Shaw , Ganesha Adkasthala Ganapathi Batta , Michael Jason Giles , Sriram Hariharan
- Applicant: Apple Inc.
- Applicant Address: US CA Cupertino
- Assignee: Apple Inc.
- Current Assignee: Apple Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Cupertino
- Agency: Kowert, Hood, Munyon, Rankin & Goetzel, P.C.
- Main IPC: H04W76/10
- IPC: H04W76/10 ; H04B7/185 ; H04L67/104 ; H04M1/72412 ; H04W4/08 ; H04W4/80 ; H04W12/04 ; H04W12/50 ; H04W76/14 ; H04W84/18

Abstract:
A first wireless communication device (UE device) associated with a certain user (or included in a specified set/group of UE devices) may establish a first communication link with an accessory device according to a short-range radio access technology, and transmit link (pairing) information associated with the first communication link to a server, such as a cloud-based server. The server may share this (first) link information with other UE devices associated with the same user (or belonging to the same specified group of UE devices as the first UE device). Link information associated with the other UE devices (i.e. second link information) may equally be shared with the accessory device, and the other UE devices and accessory device may use the first link information and second link information in establishing respective communication links between any of the other UE devices and the accessory device without having to undergo a pairing procedure.
Public/Granted literature
- US20240155318A1 Cloud-Based Proximity Pairing and Switching for Peer-to-Peer Devices Public/Granted day:2024-05-09
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