US 11,671,809 B2
Bluetooth profile fast connect
Akshay Mangalam Srivatsa, Santa Clara, CA (US); Ariane Cotte, San Francisco, CA (US); Craig P. Dooley, Los Gatos, CA (US); Duy N. Phan, San Jose, CA (US); Ganesha Adkasthala Ganapathi Batta, San Jose, CA (US); Hyundoo Shin, San Jose, CA (US); Kang Sun, Sunnyvale, CA (US); Matt I. Gillette, San Ramon, CA (US); Michael Jason Giles, San Jose, CA (US); Robert D. Watson, Menlo Park, CA (US); Sean P. Wilson, Redwood City, CA (US); Sriram Hariharan, San Jose, CA (US); Sujatha Viswanathan, San Jose, CA (US); Todd Wheeler, San Jose, CA (US); Yilok L. Wong, Mountain View, CA (US); David John Shaw, Ramona, CA (US); and Sarang S. Ranade, San Jose, CA (US)
Assigned to Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US)
Filed by Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US)
Filed on Aug. 30, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/461,436.
Application 17/461,436 is a continuation of application No. 16/718,240, filed on Dec. 18, 2019, granted, now 11,109,208.
Application 16/718,240 is a continuation of application No. 16/240,911, filed on Jan. 7, 2019, granted, now 10,542,405, issued on Jan. 21, 2020.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/679,662, filed on Jun. 1, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2022/0086613 A1, Mar. 17, 2022
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. H04W 4/80 (2018.01); H04W 8/00 (2009.01); H04W 76/11 (2018.01); H04W 76/14 (2018.01)
CPC H04W 4/80 (2018.02) [H04W 8/005 (2013.01); H04W 76/11 (2018.02); H04W 76/14 (2018.02)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A wireless station, comprising:
at least one antenna;
at least one radio in communication with the at least one antenna and configured to perform communications via a Bluetooth interface; and
at least one processor in communication with the at least one radio;
wherein the at least one processor is configured to cause the wireless station to:
identify a neighboring device that supports a fast connection protocol;
establish, without negotiation, a logical channel based at least on a channel identifier received from the neighboring device; and
pair, via the logical channel, the wireless station with the neighboring device.