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Methods of providing body area network communications when a user touches a button of a wireless electronic device, and related wireless electronic devices and wearable wireless electronic devices

  • US 9,667,353 B2
  • Filed: 07/11/2014
  • Issued: 05/30/2017
  • Est. Priority Date: 07/11/2014
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method of providing communications between a wearable first wireless electronic device and a second wireless electronic device, the method comprising:

  • establishing a Body Area Network (BAN) link, through a human body of a user that is wearing the wearable first wireless electronic device, between the wearable first wireless electronic device and the second wireless electronic device, in response to the user touching a conductive button on the second wireless electronic device;

    automatically transmitting authentication information that unlocks a display screen of the second wireless electronic device, via the BAN link, from the wearable first wireless electronic device to the second wireless electronic device, in response to the user touching the conductive button on the second wireless electronic device; and

    receiving, at the wearable first wireless electronic device, the authentication information from the second wireless electronic device via a short-range over-the-air radio link, before establishing the BAN link.

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