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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 18, 2018
Filed:
Dec. 09, 2013
Applicant:
GM Global Technology Operations Llc, Detroit, MI (US);
Inventor:
Robert A. Hrabak, West Bloomfield, MI (US);
Assignee:
GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC, Detroit, MI (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 52/02 (2009.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04W 52/0245 (2013.01); Y02D 70/142 (2018.01); Y02D 70/144 (2018.01); Y02D 70/26 (2018.01);
Abstract
A first Bluetooth-enabled device includes an interface controller that determines proximity between a first Bluetooth module and a second Bluetooth module of a second Bluetooth-enabled device, and controls transitions, based on the proximity between the first Bluetooth module and the second Bluetooth module, between a first set of operating states of a classical Bluetooth interface of the first Bluetooth module that include an enabled state and a disabled state.