Distributed bluetooth system

• US 20070141987A1
• Filed: 02/07/2006
• Published: 06/21/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 12/16/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications AB (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications AB (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Trip, Barteld, Uildriks, Tjapko, Weinans, Erwin
• Granted Patent: US 7,925,214 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/41.200
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/26 Network addressing or numbering for mobility support
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 84/18 Self-organising networks, e.g. ad-hoc networks or sensor networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/02 Terminal devices

Abstract

Bluetooth standard provides the applications with different profiles which allow for example only a specific number of devices operable in one network using the same profile. Without changing the Bluetooth standards the described apparatus and method provide a solution to allow wireless devices to receive data addressed to other wireless devices. Therefore a wireless electronic apparatus for Bluetooth communication receives data specifically addressed to said wireless electronic apparatus and to a wireless electronic device for Bluetooth communication, said wireless electronic device being operable to receive data specifically addressed to said wireless electronic device, said wireless electronic apparatus being different from said wireless electronic device. This can be realised for example by a wrist display which can pickup the electromagnetic waves containing the audio signals sent to the headset. Afterwards the properties can be displayed on the wrist to inform the user about the status of the audio signals or the cell phone transmitting the audio signals.

Claims

1. A wireless electronic apparatus for Bluetooth communication

operable to receive data specifically addressed to said wireless electronic apparatus and to a wireless electronic device for Bluetooth communication,

operable to receive data specifically addressed to said wireless electronic device, said wireless electronic apparatus being different from said wireless electronic device.

2. A wireless electronic apparatus for Bluetooth communication according to claim 1,

operable to send data specifically addressed as said wireless electronic apparatus or as said wireless electronic device for Bluetooth communication.

3. A wireless electronic system for Bluetooth communication operable to form a Bluetooth network with a radio device which is operable to transmit and/or receive specifically addressed data, said system comprising

a wireless electronic device operable to receive and/or transmit specifically addressed data and a wireless electronic apparatus according to claim 1.

4. A wireless electronic system for Bluetooth communication according to claim 3,

wherein the wireless electronic apparatus is operable to receive data specifically addressed to said wireless electronic device.

5. A wireless electronic system for Bluetooth communication according to claim 3,

wherein the wireless electronic apparatus is operable to transmit to and/or receive specifically addressed data from said radio device.

6. A wireless electronic system for Bluetooth communication according to claim 5,

wherein the wireless electronic apparatus is operable to transmit data specifically addressed as said wireless electronic device.

7. A wireless electronic system for Bluetooth communication according to claim 3,

wherein the wireless electronic device is operable to transmit and/or receive specifically addressed data to said radio device.

8. A wireless electronic system for Bluetooth communication according to claim 3,

wherein the wireless electronic device and the wireless electronic apparatus are operable to process data streams and/or data packets, respectively.

9. A wireless electronic system for Bluetooth communication according to claim 3,

wherein the wireless electronic device and the wireless electronic apparatus are spatially separated.

10. A wireless electronic system for Bluetooth communication according to claim 3,

wherein the wireless electronic apparatus is provided the device address code of the wireless electronic device during its manufacture and/or while the network is formed,

said device address code being operable for receiving data specifically addressed to the wireless electronic device.

11. A method for receiving data by a wireless electronic apparatus for Bluetooth communication from a radio device, said wireless electronic apparatus being operable to transmit and/or receive data,

wherein the data is specifically addressed to a wireless electronic device for Bluetooth communication,

said wireless electronic device being operable to receive data,

said wireless electronic apparatus being different from said wireless electronic device.

12. A method for receiving data according to claim 11, comprising

an initialization step,

wherein the wireless electronic device is operable to connect to the radio device via an active Bluetooth connection, whereby an active device address is given from the radio device to the wireless electronic device, said active device address being operable to allow the reception of specifically addressed data,

an adaptation step,

wherein the wireless electronic apparatus receives the active device address from or during the initialization step, and

a reception step,

wherein the wireless electronic apparatus receives data specifically addressed to the wireless electronic device.