公开(公告)号：US20180338330A1

公开(公告)日：2018-11-22

申请号：US15686083

申请日：2017-08-24

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Brent M. Ledvina ,  Robert William Mayor ,  Bob Bradley

IPC: H04W76/02 ,  H04W4/00 ,  H04W8/00 ,  H04W24/10

CPC classification number: H04W76/14 ,  H04W4/80 ,  H04W8/005 ,  H04W12/06 ,  H04W24/10

Abstract: Proximity of a responder device to an initiator device can be used to determine user intent for pairing the responder device with the initiator device. For example, the initiator device can measure a signal strength of an advertisement signal from the responder device. When the signal strength is sufficiently strong, a pairing process can be initiated, e.g., the user of the initiator device can automatically be prompted to begin pairing. The determination of whether the signal strength is sufficiently high can be determined based on a human interaction model, which can use measurements from various geometrical configurations of the two types of devices. Measurements at expected configurations that users would place the two devices to initiate pairing can be used to determine a threshold value for the signal strength to identify user intent with a new pair of devices

公开(公告)号：US10091303B1

公开(公告)日：2018-10-02

申请号：US15612716

申请日：2017-06-02

Applicant: Apple Inc.

Inventor： Brent M. Ledvina ,  Kevin P. McLaughlin ,  David R. Stites ,  Jahshan A. Bhatti ,  Kevin Duffy ,  Robert William Mayor

IPC: H04L29/08 ,  H04Q9/00 ,  H04W4/12 ,  H04W4/02

Abstract: Techniques for suggesting accessory devices controlled by an application executing on a mobile device are disclosed. A method includes measuring one or more sensor values to determine a data point at each of a plurality of first times, associating an accessory device with each of the data points, clustering the data points within a threshold distance of each other to create a plurality of clusters. The method also includes, after clustering the data points, measuring one or more sensor values to determine one or more current data points at a second time, determining that one or more current data points at the second time corresponds to a first cluster of the plurality of clusters, identifying a first accessory device associated with one or more of the data points in the first cluster, and providing a message using the application.