Fitbit, Inc.

Google Inc.

Irvin Owens

Gilles Luc Jean Francois Boccon-Gibod

Sylvain Pierre Christophe Rebaud

Hsiao-Kai Wang

Andrew Scott Branscomb

Jacky Cheung

Samuel Cordes Vaughan

Ryan Matthew Krems

Gilles Luc Jean François Boccon-Gibod

Xinyu Weng

Samuel Cordes Vaughn

Zachary Travis Willms

Implementations set forth herein relate to sequencing connections between a peripheral device and two or more applications, which can include an automated assistant application. The connections can be sequenced such that an application designated for the peripheral device is prioritized over the automated assistant application when the peripheral device becomes available for connecting with the applications. The designated application can be, for example, a streaming application that is designated for a media streaming peripheral device, or a health application for a health monitoring peripheral device. The designated application can connect with the peripheral device via a Bluetooth Classic protocol, and thereafter provide, to other applications, an indication that confirms completion of the Bluetooth Classic connection. The other applications can, in response, initiate connecting with the peripheral device via the Bluetooth Classic protocol or Bluetooth Low Energy protocol.

Connection sequencing involving automated assistants and peripheral devices

Alternative pairing is used to enable communication between devices, but without conventional processes required for pairing. Moreover, multiple wireless bonds may be enabled, where both a device is linked to another device and an account is associated with the device and also a backend server. Once an appropriate bond is established, a streaming app (or partial or lightweight version of an application including a selected subset of application functionality) can be streamed to a device such that the user can enter information that can be transmitted to a paired device over the wireless connection. This can enable the association of the device to be performed with respect to the backend servers of the relevant provider. Such an approach can also establish a mechanism for the user to create an account while downloading the full application, or remainder of the application in some embodiments, in the background.

Device pairing

Two devices can be connected for communication by a wireless connection, where those devices will function as master and slave devices with respect to that connection. A slave device to a connection can perform changes to the connection on behalf of an application, subsystem, or other such source on either the slave device or a master device. These changes can include changes to connection parameter values, or can include state changes such as to perform a disconnect action. Enabling the slave device to perform these actions can help to bypass any restrictions that would otherwise prevent these actions being performed from a master device to the connection.

Connection management techniques

Policy-based connection modification

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Irvin Owens