US 11,716,773 B2
Association between devices
Chee Keat Fong, Spring, TX (US); and Valiuddin Ali, Palo Alto, CA (US)
Assigned to Hewlett-Packard Development Company L.P., Spring, TX (US)
Appl. No. 16/639,544
Filed by Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Spring, TX (US)
PCT Filed Aug. 18, 2017, PCT No. PCT/US2017/047619
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Feb. 14, 2020,
PCT Pub. No. WO2019/035845, PCT Pub. Date Feb. 21, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2020/0229248 A1, Jul. 16, 2020
Int. Cl. H04B 7/00 (2006.01); H04W 76/11 (2018.01); G06F 7/58 (2006.01); G06K 19/06 (2006.01); H04W 84/18 (2009.01)
CPC H04W 76/11 (2018.02) [G06F 7/58 (2013.01); G06K 19/06037 (2013.01); H04W 84/18 (2013.01)] 15 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method comprising:
generating, by a first device, a value to be utilized as an identifier (ID) for an information exchange service by which the first device can communicate;
illustrating, by a display of the first device, a code containing the value;
scanning, by the first device, for a second device advertising the information exchange service, wherein the second device has captured the code illustrated by the display of the first device and generated the information exchange service with the value contained in the code;
discovering, by the first device, the second device advertising the information exchange service generated with the value; and
in response to the first device discovering the second device advertising the information exchange service generated with the value,
creating, by the first device, a unique association between the first device and the second device, wherein creating the unique association comprises connecting, by the first device, to the information exchange service and exchanging information with the second device utilizing the information exchange service.