Method for detecting bluetooth device using company ID

• US 20060094359A1
• Filed: 10/31/2005
• Published: 05/04/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 10/29/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Kim, Sang-Don
• Application Number:
  US11/263,288
• Publication Number:
  US 20060094359A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/41.2
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 48/20 Selecting an access point
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 84/18 Self-organising networks, e.g. ad-hoc networks or sensor networks

Abstract

Disclosed is a method for detecting a Bluetooth device by using a company ID. The method includes searching by a user equipment having a Bluetooth function in order to connect the user equipment to a desired Bluetooth device; and selecting and displaying information about counterpart Bluetooth devices, each of which has an address including a company ID identical to a predetermined company ID, from among searched Bluetooth devices. Therefore, when many Bluetooth devices besides a device desired to register by the user exist around the user equipment, the user can easily find the desired device by using company IDs.

Claims

1. A method for detecting a Bluetooth device using a company ID, the method comprising the steps of:

searching by a user equipment having a Bluetooth function to detect a desired Bluetooth device in order to connect the user equipment to the desired Bluetooth device; and

selecting and displaying information about counterpart Bluetooth devices, each of which has an address including a company ID identical to a predetermined company ID, from among searched Bluetooth devices.

2. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the predetermined company ID is a company ID of the desired Bluetooth device.

3. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the predetermined company ID is a company ID identical to that of the user equipment performing the searching.

4. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein, in the step of searching, the user equipment receives addresses of the searched Bluetooth devices and compares a first six-digit hex code representing a relevant company in each of the addresses with the predetermined company ID.

5. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the information about the Bluetooth devices includes address and company information of the searched Bluetooth devices.

6. The method as claimed in claim 5, wherein the company information is pre-stored to correspond to relevant company IDs in the user equipment.

7. A method for detecting a Bluetooth device using a company ID, the method comprising the steps of:

searching by a user equipment having a Bluetooth function to detect a desired Bluetooth device in order to connect the user equipment to the desired Bluetooth device; and

displaying information about the searched Bluetooth devices in regular sequence according to relevant company IDs.

8. The method as claimed in claim 7, in the step of searching, the user equipment receives addresses of the searched Bluetooth devices and reads a company ID which is contained in first six digits of each of the received addresses.

9. The method as claimed in claim 7, wherein the information about the Bluetooth devices includes addresses and company information of the searched Bluetooth devices.

10. The method as claimed in claim 9, wherein the company information is pre-stored to correspond to relevant company IDs in the user equipment performing the searching.

11. The method as claimed in claim 7, wherein, in the displaying step, the user equipment first displays information about Bluetooth devices having a company ID identical to a predetermined company ID, from among the searched Bluetooth devices.

12. The method as claimed in claim 11, wherein the predetermined company ID is a company ID of the desired Bluetooth device.

13. The method as claimed in claim 11, wherein the predetermined company ID is a company ID identical to that of the user equipment performing the searching.