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Robert D Watson

David John Shaw

Sriram Hariharan

Ganesha Adkasthala Ganapathi Batta

Chandrahas Aralaguppe Chandramohan

Ariane Cotte

Gregory Robert Burns

Patrick L Coffman

Jahan C Minoo

Arun Dhyaneshwar Chawan

Augustin Prats

Craig P Dooley

Zachary C Rich

Sarang S Ranade

Anthony Joseph Guetta

Michael Jason Giles

Jonathan Anderson Bennett

Jeffrey Chandler Moore

Akshay Mangalam Srivatsa

Aarti Kumar

Duy N Phan

Patrick Ian Bernhard

Kang Sun

Kurt R Stiehl

Jonathan Sarjeant Aase

Jerzy S Guterman

Esge Brandt Andersen

Yacine Azmi

Sorin V Dusan

Baptiste Pierre Paquier

Michael B Howes

Axel Dominique Berny

Benjamin W Cook

Benjamin Huth Byer

Ashley N Saulsbury

Keith Walter Rauenbuehler

Alon Paycher

Albert Riley Howard

Tad J Dreier

Baek San Chang

Daman Kapoor

Jonathan Shavit

Christopher S Wiebe

Adir Eini

Matthew Gillette

Aram M Lindahl

Gregory B Novick

Nathan De Vries

Scott Peter Krueger

Deepak R Iyer

Jason C Conn

Todd Wheeler

James L McPeak

Benjamin Adair Cousins

Gerhard A Schneider

Hyundoo Shin

Yilok L Wong

Matt I Gillette

Chris Saari

Dana McLaughlin

Sean P Wilson

Sujatha Viswanathan

Rico L Zorkendorfer

David Chance Graham

Jeffrey J Terlizzi

Albert John Golko

Mitchell David Adler

Bob Bradley

Yannick L Sierra

Marc Jason Krochmal

Darshan R Kasar

Scott Charles Grinker

Benjamin A Cousins

Raghunandan K Pai

Scott Lopatin

Edwin W Foo

Tommy Rochette

Siva Ganesh Movva

Chen Ganir

Navin Bindiganavile Suparna

Emmanuel Lalande

Jason Brinsfield

Natalia A Fornshell

Greg Nayman

Srinivasan Nimmala

Vikram Bhaskara Yerrabommanahalli

Ajoy K Singh

Rohan C Malthankar

Alexei Elias Kosut

Christopher M Garrido

Nicholas Joseph Circosta

Lee M Panecki

James Richard Watson

Faraz Faheem

Luciano Miguel Verger

Shannon X Yang

Ian J Baird

Sergey Sitnikov

Tony Chi Wang Ng

Ryan A Williams

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 housing has a bud portion abutting an elongated stem portion. The bud portion is to fit within an ear. The bud portion has a primary sound outlet at its far end that is to be inserted into an outer ear canal, and abuts the stem portion at its near end. A speaker driver is inside the bud portion. Electronic circuitry inside the housing includes a wireless communications interface to receive audio content over-the-air and in response provides an audio signal to the speaker driver. A rechargeable battery as a power source for the electronic circuitry is located inside a cavity of the stem portion. Other embodiments are also described and claimed.

Wireless earphone

Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media for detecting a wearing status of a wearable device, the wearing status indicating whether a user is wearing the wearable device and sending wearing status data to a companion communication device to control a behavior of the companion communication device.

Changing companion communication device behavior based on status of wearable device

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

Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media for performing a role swapping operation between a pair of non-tethered wireless ear buds after detecting a triggering event. Further, state information can be coordinated between devices, including in connection with performing a role swap between buds in a pair of wireless, untethered ear buds, where one wireless ear bud is in a primary role and is responsible for a connection with a companion device, and another wireless ear bud in the pair is in a secondary role.

Swapping roles between untethered wirelessly connected devices

Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media for determining when to wirelessly communicatively couple together a pair of untethered wireless audio output devices and for determining when to erase a connection history stored on one or both of the wireless audio output devices.

Wireless audio output devices

Apparatus and methods to communicate audio data from either an active wireless device or a requesting wireless device to one or more audio reproduction devices that are simultaneously communicatively coupled to both the active wireless device and to the requesting wireless device are disclosed. Responsive to a request from the requesting wireless device to transmit audio data to the one or more audio reproduction devices, the active wireless device determines whether to transmit audio data from the requesting wireless device based at least in part on an audio status of the active wireless device and a set of predetermined arbitration criteria that prioritizes among applications and operating system processes that generate the audio data.

Audio data routing between multiple wirelessly connected devices

A method performed by a programmed processor of an in-ear headphone that is to be worn by a user. The method obtains, over a wireless communication link and via a first wireless connection that uses an accessory profile, a first request, from an audio source device, to start a measurement process. In response to obtaining the request, the method 1) establishes, over the link, a second wireless connection that uses an audio distribution profile between the headphone and the source device, 2) obtains, via the second wireless connection, an audio signal for driving a speaker of the headphone to output sound, 3) responsive to the outputted sound, determining a fit parameter, and 4) transmitting the fit parameter to the source device via the first wireless connection.

Setup management for ear tip selection fitting process

An automatic speech recognition (ASR) triggering system, and a method of providing an ASR trigger signal, is described. The ASR triggering system can include a microphone to generate an acoustic signal representing an acoustic vibration and an accelerometer worn in an ear canal of a user to generate a non-acoustic signal representing a bone conduction vibration. A processor of the ASR triggering system can receive an acoustic trigger signal based on the acoustic signal and a non-acoustic trigger signal based on the non-acoustic signal, and combine the trigger signals to gate an ASR trigger signal. For example, the ASR trigger signal may be provided to an ASR server only when the trigger signals are simultaneously asserted. Other embodiments are also described and claimed.

Automatic speech recognition triggering system

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

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Robert D Watson