Intel Corporation

Intel IP Corporation

Paz Pentelka

Michael Glik

Elad Levy

Tal Davidson

Yaron Kahana

Tom Harel

Eran Sudak

Roni Abiri

Igor Brainman

David Gabay

Avishai Eshet

Tiferet Kronfeld

Yoav Gal

Disclosed herein are connection management techniques for wireless docking. According to various such techniques, a wireless docking station may be arranged to implement an auto-connect mode setting that defines whether mobile clients are permitted to automatically connect to the wireless docking station, and may be arranged to implement a persistent pairing setting that defines whether authentication certificates may be reused. In some embodiments, the wireless docking station may be configured to advertise the auto-connect mode setting and the persistent pairing setting in auto-connect capability information elements (IEs) that it includes in probe requests and/or probe responses. The embodiments are not limited in this context.

Connection management techniques for wireless docking

Some demonstrative embodiments include apparatuses, systems and/or methods of selectively responding to wireless communication transmissions. For example, an apparatus may include a wireless communication unit to allocate at least one association beamforming training (A-BFT) period, to receive a responder beamforming transmission from a responder device during the A-BFT period, to transmit to the responder device a feedback transmission in response to the responder beamforming transmission, and to set a responder filtering period extending over one or more successive A-BFT periods, wherein the wireless communication unit is to ignore one or more responder beamforming transmissions from the responder device during the filtering period.

Apparatus, system and method of selectively responding to wireless transmissions

Examples are disclosed for techniques for wireless docking. According to some embodiments, a mobile device may scan for an available docking device, for example a device with one or more I/O devices such as a display. The mobile device may automatically establish a secure wireless link with the docking device, for example, if the docking device is known to the mobile device. However, I/O services to be provided by the docking device are not activated. Instead, the docking device will prompt a user for identification data. If the identification data passes verification, the I/O services may be activated. According to some embodiments, the identification data obtained by the docking device may also be used to wake the mobile device, to login to the mobile device, and/or to unlock the mobile device for user access.

Method, system and apparatus for secured wireless docking connection

Techniques are disclosed to automatically connect a mobile device to an external display or wireless dock by establishing a bi-directional link between the mobile device and the external display or wireless dock, receiving an image captured by the external display or wireless dock via the bi-directional link by the mobile device, and evaluating the image by the mobile device to verify that the external display or wireless dock is the intended external display or wireless dock with which to connect to the mobile device.

Techniques for discovery of wi-fi serial bus and wi-fi docking services

Examples are disclosed for a first device to wirelessly dock to a second device. In some examples, a first device may receive identification from the second device for wirelessly docking. The first device may determine whether the second device is allowed to wirelessly dock and if allowed an authentication process may be implemented. The first device may then wirelessly dock to the second device based on a successful authentication. Other examples are described and claimed.

Techniques for authenticating a device for wireless docking

Some demonstrative embodiments include an apparatus, method and/or system of controlling a wireless docking device. For example, a wireless docking interface may include an indicator to indicate at least a wireless docking disconnected state of a wireless docking device, a ready to connect state, and a wireless docking connected state; a control button; and a controller to trigger a wireless docking operation based on a change in a button state of the control button, the wireless docking operation including an operation selected from the group consisting of pairing the wireless docking device with a mobile device, disconnecting the mobile device from the docking device, and triggering the mobile device to switch between first and second power states.

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