IMPROVED DEVICE PAIRING WITH A DUAL USE PIEZOELECTRIC ACOUSTIC COMPONENT AND VIBRATION SENSOR

• US 20170214780A1
• Filed: 10/27/2014
• Published: 07/27/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 07/07/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Ascensia Diabetes Care Holdings AG (PHC Holdings Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Acemsoa Diabetes Care Holdings AG
• Inventors: Dionisio, Christopher A., Gofman, Igor Y.
• Granted Patent: US 10,306,444 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/002 Monitoring the patient using a local or closed circuit, e.g. in a room or building A61B5/0017 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/14532 for measuring glucose, e.g. by tissue impedance measurement
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/016 Input arrangements with force or tactile feedback as computer generated output to the user
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/0869 for achieving mutual authentication cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for mutual authentication H04L9/3273
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/0876 based on the identity of the terminal or configuration, e.g. MAC address, hardware or software configuration or device fingerprint
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/107 wherein the security policies are location-dependent, e.g. entities privileges depend on current location or allowing specific operations only from locally connected terminals
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/51 Discovery or management thereof, e.g. service location protocol [SLP] or web services
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72412 using two-way short-range wireless interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2201/18 Comparators
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2201/26 A/D convertors
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/02 including a Bluetooth interface
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/22 including a touch pad, a touch sensor or a touch detector digitizers for touch screens G06F3/041
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/08 Access security
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/50 Secure pairing of devices
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/023 using mutual or relative location information between multiple location based services [LBS] targets or of distance thresholds
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/027 using movement velocity, acceleration information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/06 Selective distribution of broadcast services, e.g. multimedia broadcast multicast service [MBMS]; Services to user groups; One-way selective calling services
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/20 Services signaling; Auxiliary data signalling, i.e. transmitting data via a non-traffic channel
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/60 Subscription-based services using application servers or record carriers, e.g. SIM application toolkits
• 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 48/10 : using broadcasted information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 48/16 : Discovering, processing access restriction or access information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 74/002 : Transmission of channel access control information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 76/10 : Connection setup
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/005 : Discovery of network devices, e.g. terminals
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 84/18 : Self-organising networks, e.g. ad-hoc networks or sensor networks
• CPC Class Codes: Y02D 30/70 : in wireless communication networks

Abstract

Some embodiments of the present invention include placing a smart device and a peripheral device in pairing mode; detecting at least one pairing motion event with a dual use piezo circuit within the peripheral device; transmitting an indication of the occurrence of the at least one pairing motion event to the smart device; receiving in the smart device the indication of the occurrence of the at least one pairing motion event in satisfaction of at least one pairing condition; and pairing the smart device with the peripheral device in response to satisfaction of the at least one pairing condition. Numerous other aspects are provided.

Claims

1. A method of pairing a smart device with a peripheral device, the method comprising:

placing a smart device and a peripheral device in pairing mode;

detecting at least one pairing motion event with a dual use piezo circuit within the peripheral device;

transmitting an indication of the occurrence of the at least one pairing motion event to the smart device;

receiving in the smart device the indication of the occurrence of the at least one pairing motion event in satisfaction of at least one pairing condition; and

pairing the smart device with the peripheral device in response to satisfaction of the at least one pairing condition.

2. The method of claim 1 further comprising executing a pairing application on the smart device.

3. The method of claim 2 wherein the at least one pairing motion event includes tapping the peripheral device.

4. The method of claim 1 wherein detecting at least one pairing motion event with a dual use piezo circuit includes receiving a signal from a piezoelectric buzzer having an amplitude greater than a threshold amplitude.

5. The method of claim 4 wherein satisfying the at least one pairing condition includes detecting a tap event with the peripheral device.

6. The method of claim 1 wherein the at least one pairing motion event includes taping together the smart device and the peripheral device.

7. The method of claim 6 wherein satisfying the at least one pairing condition includes tapping together the smart device and the peripheral device with sufficient force to exceed a pre-defined tap threshold.

8. The method of claim 7 wherein satisfying the at least one pairing condition includes moving the smart device and the peripheral device together at a fast enough rate to exceed a predefined mobility threshold.

9. The method of claim 8 wherein satisfying the at least one pairing condition includes moving the smart device and the peripheral device close enough together to exceed a predefined proximity threshold.

10. A system for pairing two wireless devices, the system comprising:

a first wireless device that includes a programmable smart device that is Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) enabled; and

a second wireless device that includes a BLE enabled peripheral device and a dual use piezo circuit within the peripheral device,

wherein the second wireless device includes a processor and memory storing peripheral device instructions executable on the processor, wherein the peripheral device instructions when executed are operable to;

place the second wireless device in a pairing mode,

detect performance of at least one pairing motion event, and

broadcast an indication of the occurrence of the at least one pairing motion event to the smart device,

wherein the smart device includes a processor and memory storing smart device instructions executable on the processor, wherein the smart device instructions when executed are operable to;

receive the indication of the occurrence of the at least one pairing motion event in satisfaction of at least one pairing condition, and

pair the smart device and the peripheral device in response to satisfaction of the at least one pairing condition.

11. The system of claim 10 wherein the smart device instructions further include instructions which when executed are operable to:

execute a pairing application.

12. The system of claim 11 wherein the peripheral device instructions further include instructions which when executed are operable to:

detect that the peripheral device experienced a tap event.

13. The system of claim 12 wherein the peripheral device instructions further include instructions which when executed are operable to:

detect at least one pairing motion event with a dual use piezo circuit by receiving a signal from a piezoelectric buzzer having an amplitude greater than a threshold amplitude.

14. The system of claim 13 wherein the peripheral device instructions further include instructions which when executed are operable to:

generate the indication of the occurrence of the at least one pairing motion event in response to an interrupt signaling the occurrence of the tap event.

15. The system of claim 10 wherein the smart device instructions further include instructions which when executed are operable to:

monitor for an occurrence of at least one pairing motion event that includes taping together the smart device and the peripheral device.

16. The system of claim 15 wherein the smart device instructions further include instructions which when executed are operable to:

determine that the at least one pairing condition is satisfied when the smart device and the peripheral device are tapped together with sufficient force to exceed a pre-defined tap threshold.

17. The system of claim 16 wherein the smart device instructions further include instructions which when executed are operable to:

determine that the at least one pairing condition is satisfied when the smart device and the peripheral device are moved together at a fast enough rate to exceed a predefined mobility threshold.

18. The system of claim 17 wherein the smart device instructions further include instructions which when executed are operable to:

determine that the at least one pairing condition is satisfied when the smart device and the peripheral device are moved close enough together to exceed a predefined proximity threshold.

19. A dual use piezo circuit comprising:

a microcontroller including a comparator and a digital to analog converter (DAC); and

a piezoelectric buzzer having electrodes coupled to outputs of the microcontroller,

wherein an output of the DAC is coupled to a first input of the comparator, and

wherein one of the electrodes of the piezoelectric buzzer is additionally coupled to a second input of the comparator.

20. The dual use piezo circuit of claim 19 further comprising a monostable multivibrator,

wherein an output of the comparator is coupled to an input of the monostable multivibrator, and

wherein an output of the monostable multivibrator is coupled to an input of the microcontroller.