US 12,455,839 B1
System and method of automatically onboarding a peripheral device to a plurality of host information handling systems via a previously paired gateway peripheral device
Harpreet S. Narula, Austin, TX (US); and Kai Leong Wong, Singapore (SG)
Assigned to DELL PRODUCTS LP, Round Rock, TX (US)
Filed by Dell Products LP, Round Rock, TX (US)
Filed on Apr. 26, 2024, as Appl. No. 18/647,871.
Int. Cl. G06F 13/10 (2006.01); H04W 76/14 (2018.01)
CPC G06F 13/102 (2013.01) [H04W 76/14 (2018.02)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A gateway peripheral device operatively couplable to a plurality of information handling systems comprising:
a peripheral device hardware microcontroller;
a peripheral device storage device for storing a plurality of Bluetooth® Low Energy (BLE) host addresses for a first of the plurality of information handling systems with which the gateway peripheral device has previously paired;
a peripheral device wireless radio to establish a wireless link to a first of the plurality of information handling systems to which the gateway peripheral device has previously paired; and
the peripheral device hardware microcontroller to execute code instructions of a gateway automated wireless pairing module to receive a hotkey activation of the gateway wireless peripheral device to indicate commencement of the role of the gateway peripheral device to coordinate trusted pairing of a subordinate wireless peripheral device to each of the plurality of information handling systems and to copy clone extended directed generic attribute (GATT) communication profile metadata for the gateway peripheral device for use by the subordinate wireless peripheral device to pair with the first of the plurality of information handling systems, where the clone extended directed GATT communication profile metadata includes a BLE host address of the first of the plurality of information handling systems;
the peripheral device hardware wireless radio to transmit to the subordinate wireless peripheral device, via GATT communication, the clone extended directed GATT communication profile metadata including the BLE host address of the first of the plurality of information handling systems; and
the peripheral device hardware wireless radio to transmit to the subordinate wireless peripheral device instructions for the subordinate wireless peripheral device to pair with the first of the plurality of information handling systems, via extended directed GATT communication mode established using the BLE host address for the first of the plurality of information handling systems.