CPC H04W 12/50 (2021.01) [A61B 5/0024 (2013.01); A61M 5/14244 (2013.01); H04L 9/0838 (2013.01); H04W 12/041 (2021.01); A61B 5/14532 (2013.01); A61B 2560/0209 (2013.01); A61M 2205/3569 (2013.01); A61M 2205/3584 (2013.01); A61M 2205/505 (2013.01); A61M 2205/8212 (2013.01); H04L 9/0643 (2013.01); H04L 2209/805 (2013.01); H04L 2209/88 (2013.01)] | 13 Claims |
1. A method of securely pairing a first device with a second device for wireless communication therebetween comprising:
providing each of the first device and the second device with predefined data;
the first device transmitting advertising signals at selected intervals and in a selected radio frequency range via a first antenna;
the second device scanning in the selected radio frequency via a second antenna;
the first device providing data to be shared with the second device in the advertising signals;
the second device receiving the shared data via the scanning;
the second device and the first device each using at least part of the shared data and at least part of the predefined data to generate an out of band [OOB] key, the OOB key generated by the first device being identical to the OOB key generated by the second device; and
the second device and the first device performing OOB pairing with each other using their respective OOB key prior to performing short-range wireless communication paring.
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