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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 10, 2013
Filed:
Sep. 14, 2011
Richard Carl Gossweiler, Iii, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Colin Albright Mcdonough, St. Louis, MO (US);
Richard Carl Gossweiler, III, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Colin Albright McDonough, St. Louis, MO (US);
Google Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
In general, this disclosure describes techniques for receiving, by a first computing device, information from a second computing device communicated using short-range wireless communication functionality. Responsive to receiving the information, activating, by the first computing device, a secondary communication functionality that is different from the short-range wireless communication functionality. A communication session may be established between the first computing device and the second computing device using the secondary communication functionality.