US 11,889,581 B2
Electronic device sharing peripheral device with external electronic device and method thereof
Haewook Oh, Gyeonggi-do (KR); Doosuk Kang, Gyeonggi-do (KR); Yongju Kim, Gyeonggi-do (KR); Youngmin Yoo, Gyeonggi-do (KR); Seongjun Lee, Gyeonggi-do (KR); Buseop Jung, Gyeonggi-do (KR); and Kunyoung Choi, Gyeonggi-do (KR)
Assigned to Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd
Filed by Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Gyeonggi-do (KR)
Filed on Dec. 30, 2022, as Appl. No. 18/091,508.
Application 18/091,508 is a continuation of application No. 17/027,043, filed on Sep. 21, 2020, granted, now 11,546,748.
Claims priority of application No. 10-2019-0134931 (KR), filed on Oct. 28, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2023/0132947 A1, May 4, 2023
Int. Cl. H04W 8/00 (2009.01); H04W 4/80 (2018.01); G06F 3/041 (2006.01); G06F 3/0482 (2013.01); G06F 3/01 (2006.01); H04L 69/18 (2022.01)
CPC H04W 8/005 (2013.01) [G06F 3/017 (2013.01); G06F 3/0482 (2013.01); G06F 3/04162 (2019.05); H04L 69/18 (2013.01); H04W 4/80 (2018.02)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An electronic device, comprising:
at least one wireless communication circuit; and
a processor connected with the at least one wireless communication circuit,
wherein the processor is configured to:
receive a user input from a peripheral device through a first connection between the electronic device and the peripheral device,
transmit a request associated with a share function for the peripheral device to the at least one external device near the electronic device,
receive a response to the request from the at least one external electronic device,
determine whether the at least one external electronic device is registered to a same user account as the electronic device,
determine whether the share function for the peripheral device is allowed at the at least one external electronic device, and
in case that the at least one external electronic device is registered to the same user account as the electronic device and the share function for the peripheral device is allowed at the at least one external electronic device, establish a second connection for sharing the peripheral device between the electronic device and the at least one external electronic device,
wherein the processor is configured to transmit input information or control information received from the peripheral device to the at least one external electronic device based on the user input corresponding to a predetermined gesture.