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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 29, 2016
Filed:
Feb. 09, 2015
Motorola Solutions, Inc, Schaumburg, IL (US);
Scott J Pappas, Lake Zurich, IL (US);
Hope E Braun, Chicago, IL (US);
James M Nowakowski, Buffalo Grove, IL (US);
Thomas J Senese, Schaumburg, IL (US);
MOTOROLA SOLUTIONS, INC., Schaumburg, IL (US);
Abstract
A method and apparatus for connecting a Bluetooth device is provided herein. During operation a priority list is used by a Bluetooth piconet master. The Bluetooth piconet master will receive feedback from all slave devices, and then control connections among devices within the piconet based on the priority list and the feedback. The Bluetooth piconet master controls the piconet such that when a first Bluetooth device is connected to a lower-priority Bluetooth device, connection to a higher-priority Bluetooth device will only take place if the higher-priority Bluetooth device becomes 'active' (as determined from the feedback). Therefore, as long as the higher-priority Bluetooth device remains 'inactive', the connection to the lower-priority Bluetooth device will remain.