Automatic application management in a short-range wireless system

• US 8,515,077 B2
• Filed: 05/12/2010
• Issued: 08/20/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 05/12/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Malikie Innovations Limited (Key Patent Innovations Limited)
• Original Assignee: Blackberry Limited
• Inventors: DeLuca, Michael Joseph
• Primary Examiner(s): Tabor, Amare F
• Application Number:
  US12/778,661
• Publication Number:
  US 20110280403A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,196 Days
• Field of Search: 380/278, 380/247, 380/270, 455/41.2
• US Class Current: 380/278
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/303 Terminal profiles
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/51 Discovery or management thereof, e.g. service location protocol [SLP] or web services
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/52 specially adapted for the location of the user terminal

Abstract

Method, device and computer readable storage medium for managing applications on a wireless device by providing applications on the wireless device. The wireless device is used in a short-range wireless system with an effective range. The wireless device and a client device are brought into proximity and thereby into the effective range of the short-range wireless system. The wireless device and the client device are connected and associated. The application is associated with the client device. The application is then automatically launched on the wireless device.

Claims

1. A method for managing applications on a wireless device for:

providing one or more applications on the wireless device, the wireless device used in a short-range wireless system defining a range of less than one hundred meters;

detecting a presence of a wireless accessory having an accessory type in the range of the short-range wireless system;

exchanging public keys between the wireless device and the wireless accessory;

authenticating the wireless device and the wireless accessory;

exchanging link keys between the wireless device and the wireless accessory;

exchanging encryption keys between the wireless device and the wireless accessory;

associating the wireless device with the wireless accessory;

selecting, based on the accessory type, an application from the one or more applications for the associated wireless accessory;

associating the application with the wireless accessory; and

launching the application on the wireless device.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the short-range wireless system is a Bluetooth™

system; and

the associating the wireless device with the wireless accessory comprises pairing the wireless device with the wireless accessory.

3. The method according to claim 1, further comprising:

disassociating the wireless device and the wireless accessory;

associating the wireless device with a second wireless accessory;

associating the selected application with the second wireless accessory; and

continuing the execution of the application on the wireless device.

4. The method according to claim 3, further comprising:

receiving data after the disassociating the wireless device and the wireless accessory;

buffering the data on the wireless device; and

continuing the execution of the application on the wireless device using the buffered data.

5. The method according to claim 1, wherein the application is an audio only application and the wireless accessory is an audio reproduction device.

6. The method according to claim 1 wherein the application is a video application and the wireless accessory is a video reproduction device.

7. The method according to claim 1 wherein the application is a data exchange application and the wireless accessory is a data exchange device.

13. The method according to claim 1, further comprising:

sending data from the wireless device to the wireless accessory.

14. The method according to claim 1, wherein the short-range wireless system uses INFRARED DATA ASSOCIATION (IrDA), Ultra-Wideband™

(UWB), Z-Wave™

or ZigBee™

.

15. The method according to claim 1, wherein the authentication uses NUMERIC COMPARISON, OUT-OF-BAND (OOB), JUST WORKS, or PASSKEY ENTRY protocol.

16. The method according to claim 1, wherein the short-range wireless system is a wireless personal area network (PAN).

8. A wireless device used in a short-range wireless system, the wireless device comprising:

a memory including one or more applications, and an application device association table for associating one or more applications with a plurality of wireless accessories, each of the wireless accessories having an accessory type; and

a processor for;

detecting a presence of a wireless accessory in a range of the short-range wireless system, wherein the range is less than one hundred meters;

exchanging public keys between the wireless device and the wireless accessory;

authenticating the wireless device and the wireless accessory;

exchanging link keys between the wireless device and the wireless accessory;

exchanging encryption keys between the wireless device and the wireless accessory;

associating the wireless device with the wireless accessory;

selecting, based on the accessory type, an application from the one or more applications for the associated wireless accessory;

associating the application with the wireless accessory; and

launching the application.

9. The wireless device according to claim 8, wherein the short-range wireless system is a Bluetooth™

system; and

the associating the wireless device with the wireless accessory comprises pairing the wireless device with the wireless accessory.

10. The wireless device according to claim 8, wherein the wireless device authenticates with the wireless accessory;

and exchanges link keys with the wireless accessory.

11. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium storing instructions or statements for use in the execution in a computer of a method for managing applications on a wireless device in a short-range wireless system, the method comprising:

executing one or more applications;

detecting a presence of a wireless accessory having an accessory type in a range of the short-range wireless system, wherein the range is less than one hundred meters;

exchanging public keys between the wireless device and the wireless accessory;

authenticating the wireless device and the wireless accessory;

exchanging link keys between the wireless device and the wireless accessory;

exchanging encryption keys between the wireless device and the wireless accessory;

associating the wireless device with the wireless accessory;

selecting, based on the accessory type, an application from the one or more applications suitable for the associated wireless accessory;

associating the selected application with the wireless accessory; and

launching the application.

12. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium according to claim 11, wherein the short-range wireless system is a Bluetooth™

system; and

the associating the wireless device with the wireless accessory comprises pairing the wireless device with the wireless accessory.