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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 11, 2014
Filed:
Sep. 23, 2011
Kenin Page, Sandy, UT (US);
Elwin Hunt, Sandy, UT (US);
Kenin Page, Sandy, UT (US);
Elwin Hunt, Sandy, UT (US);
PALM, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
A Bluetooth-enabled computing device includes a user interface for displaying a prompt to specify a descriptive identifier for a network device prior to performance of a Bluetooth Device Discovery Routine, the descriptive identifier being different from Bluetooth Device Discovery Routine Identifiers. A system memory has entries including descriptive identifiers, each descriptive identifier corresponding to a network device pre-configured with a connection profile. A connection manager determines if a specified descriptive identifier is a match to any entry in the system memory and to implements a connection to a network device corresponding to a matching entry. Otherwise the connection manager performs a discovery routine to locate and establish a connection to at least one available network device corresponding to the specified descriptive identifier. A Bluetooth compatible wireless transceiver is operable to transmit and receive signals associated with the connection to the network device and the discovery routine.