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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Jul. 03, 2018

Filed:

Sep. 22, 2016
Applicant:

Qualcomm Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);

Inventors:

Joel Benjamin Linsky, San Diego, CA (US);

Robin Heydon, Cambridge, GB;

Brian Arnold Redding, Urbana, IL (US);

Mayank Batra, Cambridge, GB;

Christopher Church, Cambridge, GB;

Assignee:

QUALCOMM Incorporated, San Diego, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04M 1/725 (2006.01); H04W 8/00 (2009.01); H04W 76/04 (2009.01); H04L 29/06 (2006.01); H04W 12/04 (2009.01); H04W 76/28 (2018.01); H04W 12/00 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04M 1/7253 (2013.01); H04L 63/0428 (2013.01); H04L 63/06 (2013.01); H04W 8/005 (2013.01); H04W 12/04 (2013.01); H04W 76/048 (2013.01); H04W 76/28 (2018.02); H04W 12/00 (2013.01);
Abstract

Systems and methods are directed to discovering trusted remote devices and establishing trusted communications with trusted remote devices. A local device can determine one or more time periods of expected silence in a communication between the local device and a remote device; and embed trusted communication messages in the one or more time periods for at least one of: discovering that the remote device is a trusted remote device, performing a trusted communication with the trusted remote device. The communication may be based on a Bluetooth protocol in a link layer.


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