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Short-range wireless controller filtering and reporting

  • US 10,334,528 B2
  • Filed: 04/23/2018
  • Issued: 06/25/2019
  • Est. Priority Date: 10/07/2014
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method comprising:

  • maintaining, by a short-range wireless device, an advertising data content filter, wherein the advertising data content filter comprises at least one content filter having at least one respective delivery mode that specifies when to deliver data packets matching the at least one content filter to a host stack, wherein the host stack is implemented by a host processor of the short-range wireless device;

    receiving, by a short-range wireless controller of the short-range wireless device while the host processor of the short-range wireless device is in an idle mode or sleep mode, a data packet from an advertising short-range wireless device;

    determining, by the short-range wireless device, that content of the data packet matches a particular content filter of the advertising data content filter; and

    based on the content of the data packet matching the particular content filter of the advertising data content filter, delivering a portion of the data packet to the host stack in accordance with a particular delivery mode corresponding to the particular content filter, wherein the short-range wireless controller carries out the delivering of received data packets independently of the host processor.

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