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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 26, 2008
Filed:
Jan. 29, 2002
Kelan C. Silvester, Portland, OR (US);
Kelan C. Silvester, Portland, OR (US);
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
An apparatus and method for wireless/wired Bluetooth™ communications interface are described. The method includes detection of a communications configuration of a device as one of a wireless communications interface and a wireless/wired communications interface. Once detected, it is determined whether a wired/wireless communications interface is the communications interface of the device. When such is the case, a data transmission error rate of the device is determined during operation of the device in a wireless communications mode. Next, the device is switched from the wireless communications mode to a wired communications mode when the data transmission error rate caused by wireless radio interference of the device exceeds a pre-determined threshold. As such, the present invention allows Bluetooth™ wireless communications devices to utilize a wired communications mode when transmission error rate exceeds a pre-determined threshold.