Apple Inc.

Ariane Cotte

Robert D Watson

Sriram Hariharan

David John Shaw

Sarang S Ranade

Michael Jason Giles

Akshay Mangalam Srivatsa

Gregory Robert Burns

Kang Sun

Alon Paycher

Chandrahas Aralaguppe Chandramohan

Jonathan Shavit

Adir Eini

Craig P Dooley

Ganesha Adkasthala Ganapathi Batta

Todd Wheeler

Duy N Phan

Hyundoo Shin

Yilok L Wong

Matt I Gillette

Sujatha Viswanathan

Sean P Wilson

David Chance Graham

Bob Bradley

Marc Jason Krochmal

Aarti Kumar

Chen Ganir

Natalia A Fornshell

Srinivasan Nimmala

Vikram Bhaskara Yerrabommanahalli

Ajoy K Singh

Rohan C Malthankar

Brent Michael Ledvina

Christopher M Garrido

Nicholas Joseph Circosta

Faraz Faheem

Luciano Miguel Verger

Albert Riley Howard

Ian J Baird

Siva Ganesh Movva

Sergey Sitnikov

Steven Douglas Laver

Ryan A Williams

Thomas Chathoth Abraham

Tunc Ertan

Kenneth U Victa

Ping-Ko Chiu

Imran Ahmed

Anita Desai

Kerry Nguyen

Michał Adam Kałużny

David Shaw

A first device is configured to establish a connection over a short-range communication link with a second device. The first device may transition to a sleep state, terminate (i) a paging operation and a page scanning operation associated with a paging protocol and (ii) an advertisement scanning operation associated with an advertisement protocol and perform an advertisement broadcast operation associated with the advertisement protocol, the advertisement broadcast operation generating an advertisement to be broadcast at a first interval, wherein the first interval is greater than a second interval for performing advertisement broadcast operations in an active state.

Low-power activation of accessory in sleep state

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.

Temporary pairing for wireless devices

This document describes techniques for detecting and providing user notification of mismatched devices. A device mismatch of a pair of wireless devices may be detected. A wireless indication of the device mismatch may be provided to another wireless device. That wireless device may provide a user notification that the pair of wireless devices are mismatched.

Identification and user notification of mismatched devices

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.

Pairing groups of accessories

Methods for aggregating Bluetooth profiles for faster connection and configuration are disclosed, including transmitting, subsequent to establishing a connection, a request message to a peer device that indicates support of a fast connection protocol for Bluetooth profiles configuration and receiving a response message from the peer device that indicates the peer device supports the fast connection protocol. After pairing with the peer device, a first list of profile descriptors for a plurality of Bluetooth profiles supported by the device may be transmitted to the peer device and a second list of profile descriptors for a plurality of Bluetooth profiles supported by the peer device may be received. A configuration of a plurality of Bluetooth profiles base, at least in part, on a comparison of the first list of profile descriptors to the second list of profile descriptors may be determined and transmitted to the peer device.

Bluetooth profile fast connect

A device providing inter-device call continuity facilitated by a wireless audio output device may include a processor configured to initiate, over a peer-to-peer connection with a second device, a communication session between the second device and a third device. The processor may be further configured to establish, over the peer-to-peer connection with the second device, an audio link corresponding to the communication session. The processor may be further configured to determine, based at least in part on the audio link, that a connection quality of the peer-to-peer connection satisfies a connection degradation condition. The processor may be further configured to request, over a wide area network connection, for the communication session with the third device to be handed-off from the second device to the first device, and to establish, over the wide area network connection, the communication session with the third device.

Inter-device communication session continuity facilitated by a wireless audio output device

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Ariane Cotte