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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 16, 2018
Filed:
Aug. 19, 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 peripheral device: initiating an broadcasting process, comprising: broadcasting a device discovery message, the device discovery message comprising a predetermined identifier designated for a social networking service associated with a social networking application executing on the user device; receiving, from the user device, a connection request corresponding to the device discovery message; and in response to receiving the connection request from the user device, establishing a Bluetooth connection to the user device.