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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 16, 2016
Filed:
Aug. 22, 2014
Tencent Technology (Shenzhen) Company Limited, Shenzhen, CN;
Shihai Cheng, Shenzhen, CN;
Liangliang Fan, Shenzhen, CN;
Kai Liu, Shenzhen, CN;
Xiangyao Lin, Shenzhen, CN;
Chenglin Liu, Shenzhen, CN;
Jinhai Liu, Shenzhen, CN;
Yaobo Hua, Shenzhen, CN;
Anqi Ren, Shenzhen, CN;
Rungui Ye, Shenzhen, CN;
Zhijie Zhou, Shenzhen, CN;
Can Liu, Shenzhen, CN;
TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LIMITED, Shenzhen, Guangdong Province, CN;
Abstract
A method and system for connecting a peripheral device to a user device via a Bluetooth protocol, comprising: at the user device: initiating a device scan process, comprising: detecting a device discovery message from the peripheral device; and determining whether the device discovery message includes a predetermined identifier designated for a social networking service associated with a social networking application executing on the user device; upon determining that the device discovery message includes the predetermined identifier designated for the social networking service associated with a social networking application executing on the user device, sending, to the peripheral device, a connection request corresponding to the device discovery message; and establishing a Bluetooth connection to the peripheral device.