Method for controlling a Bluetooth connection

• US 9,525,963 B2
• Filed: 03/11/2016
• Issued: 12/20/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 05/09/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Hyundai Mobis Co., Ltd., Hyundai Motor Company (Hyundai Motor Group), Kia Motors Corporation (Kia Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Hyundai Mobis Co., Ltd., Hyundai Motor Company (Hyundai Motor Group), Kia Motors Corporation (Kia Corp.)
• Inventors: Yae, Seong Soo, Kim, Ji Un
• Primary Examiner(s): Hanidu, Ganiyu A
• Application Number:
  US15/067,781
• Publication Number:
  US 20160198291A1
• Time in Patent Office: 284 Days
• Field of Search: 455/41.1, 455/41.2, 455/41.3, 455/434, 455/16
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/61 for supporting one-way streaming services, e.g. Internet radio
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/303 Terminal profiles
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/6091 including a wireless interface
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/80 Services using short range communication, e.g. near-field communication [NFC], radio-frequency identification [RFID] or low energy communication
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 76/19 Connection re-establishment
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 84/18 Self-organising networks, e.g. ad-hoc networks or sensor networks

Abstract

A method for controlling a Bluetooth connection according an embodiment of the present disclosure includes requesting a confirmation of connectable profiles from a vehicle to a terminal, and responding to the connectable profiles in response to the confirmation request, requesting a first connection of the connectable profiles, determining whether a hands-free profile of the connected profiles is connected based on the connection request, and requesting a second connection of the hands-free profile of the connectable profiles prior to other profiles of the connectable profiles which are not connected, when it is determined that the connection of the hands-free profile is failed.

Claims

1. A method for controlling a Bluetooth connection comprising steps of:

requesting a connection of an Advanced Audio Distribution Profile (A2DP) from a vehicle to a terminal;

requesting a connection of an Audio/Video Remote Control Profile (AVRCP) from the vehicle to the terminal;

determining whether the A2DP and the AVRCP are connected;

entering a Bluetooth streaming mode between the vehicle and the terminal while a menu controlling a streaming is not displayed, when only the A2DP is connected based on the determination; and

entering a Bluetooth streaming mode between the vehicle and the terminal while the menu controlling the streaming is displayed, when both of the A2DP and AVRCP are connected based on the determination,

wherein the menu controlling the streaming includes a play button that plays audio or video played in the Bluetooth streaming mode, a pause button that stop the play of the audio or video, and an area in which information for the audio or video is displayed.