Service/device indication with graphical interface
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Abstract
The method disclosed gives the user rapid notice of those Bluetooth devices within communication range, and yet it selectively blocks any notice about Bluetooth devices that the user wishes to ignore. Bluetooth server devices can indicate to the user'"'"'s Bluetooth client device the service the server device has available by sending service/device icon information to Bluetooth client device. This information can be a value in the class-of-device (CoD) field of a frequency hop synchronization (FHS) packet that it sends during the process of exchanging inquiry and paging packets with the Bluetooth client device. If the server device has begun by transmitting an inquiry packet, then the CoD value will be sent in its paging packet. If the server device is responding to an inquiry, then its CoD value will be in its inquiry response packet. Alternately, the service/device icon information can be sent after a connection has been made with the client device, as part of a Service Discovery Protocol (SDP) response packet.
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88 Claims
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51. A method to rapidly indicate availability of a service in a mobile terminal device, comprising:
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receiving icon information as a value in a field of a packet from a source device providing wireless short-range services;
displaying an icon corresponding to the icon information without establishing a wireless short-range connection between the mobile terminal device and the source device;
periodically determining whether the source device is within a short-range communications range of the mobile terminal device; and
removing the display of the icon after a predetermined time interval following the determination that the source device is no longer within the short-range communications range of the mobile terminal device. - View Dependent Claims (52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70)
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71. An apparatus to rapidly indicate availability of a service from a source device providing wireless short-range services, comprising:
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a receiver in a mobile terminal device, for receiving icon information as a value in a field of a packet from a source device providing wireless short-range services, the information characterizing the source device;
a display in the mobile terminal device, for displaying an icon corresponding to the icon information while within short-range communications range of the source device without establishing a wireless short-range connection between the mobile terminal device and the source device; and
a processor in the mobile terminal device, for removing the display of the icon after a predetermined time interval following leaving the short-range communications range of the source device. - View Dependent Claims (72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79)
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80. A computer program product to rapidly indicate availability of a service in a mobile terminal device, comprising:
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a computer readable medium;
program code in said computer readable medium for receiving icon information as a value in a field of a packet from a source device providing wireless short-range services;
program code in said computer readable medium for displaying an icon corresponding to the icon information without establishing a wireless short-range connection between the mobile terminal device and the source device;
program code in said computer readable medium for periodically determining whether the source device is within a short-range communications range of the mobile terminal device; and
program code in said computer readable medium for removing the display of the icon after a predetermined time interval following the determination that the source device is no longer within the short-range communications range of the mobile terminal device. - View Dependent Claims (81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87, 88)
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