Identification and user notification of mismatched devices

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12150209-B2
Application number	US-202117335724-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jun 1, 2021
Priority date	Sep 27, 2018
Publication date	Nov 19, 2024
Grant date	Nov 19, 2024

Abstract

This document describes techniques for detecting and providing user notification of mismatched devices. A device mismatch of a pair of wireless devices may be detected. A wireless indication of the device mismatch may be provided to another wireless device. That wireless device may provide a user notification that the pair of wireless devices are mismatched.

First claim

We claim:

1. A user equipment (UE), comprising:
a radio; and
a processor operably coupled to the radio and configured to cause the UE to:
receive, from a second device, one or more items of match information indicating that two wireless earphones placed in a smart storage case differ;
determine, based on the one or more items of match information, that the two wireless earphones are mismatched; and
provide, based on the determination that the two wireless earphones are mismatched, a mismatch notification.

2. The UE of claim 1 , wherein the one or more items of match information comprise a product identifier or a generation associated with each of the two wireless earphones.

3. The UE of claim 2 , wherein the second device is one of the two wireless earphones and comprises the wireless earphone of a more recent product generation of the two wireless earphones.

4. The UE of claim 1 , wherein the one or more items of match information comprise a shared random public address of the two wireless earphones.

5. The UE of claim 1 , wherein the notification is displayed on a display of the UE.

6. The UE of claim 1 , wherein the second device is the smart storage case.

7. The UE of claim 1 , wherein the notification comprises an audio notification played on a speaker of the UE.

8. An apparatus, comprising:
a processor configured to cause a first device to:
receive, from a second device, one or more items of match information indicating that two wireless earphones placed in a smart storage case differ;
determine, based on the one or more items of match information, that the two wireless earphones are mismatched; and
provide, based on the determination that the two wireless earphones are mismatched, a mismatch notification.

9. The apparatus of claim 8 , wherein the one or more items of match information comprise a product identifier or a generation associated with each of the two wireless earphones.

10. The apparatus of claim 9 , wherein the second device one of the two wireless earphones and comprises the wireless earphone of a more recent product generation of the two wireless earphones.

11. The apparatus of claim 8 , wherein the one or more items of match information comprise a shared random public address of the two wireless earphones.

12. The apparatus of claim 8 , wherein the one or more items of match information comprises information that the two wireless earphones have different users or owners.

13. The apparatus of claim 8 , wherein the second device is the smart storage case.

14. The apparatus of claim 8 , wherein the notification comprises an audio notification played on a speaker of the first device.

15. A method, comprising:
at a first device:
receiving, from a second device, one or more items of match information indicating that two wireless earphones placed in a smart storage case differ;
determining, based on the one or more items of match information, that the two wireless earphones are mismatched; and
generating, based on the determination that the two wireless earphones are mismatched, a mismatch notification.

16. The method of claim 15 , wherein the one or more items of match information comprise a product identifier or a generation associated with each of the two wireless earphones.

17. The method of claim 16 , wherein the second device one of the two wireless earphones and comprises the wireless earphone of a more recent product generation of the two wireless earphones.

18. The method of claim 15 , wherein the one or more items of match information comprise a shared random public address of the two wireless earphones.

19. The method of claim 15 , wherein the notification is displayed on a display of the first device.

20. The method of claim 15 , wherein the second device is the smart storage case.

Assignees

• Apple Inc

Inventors

• Giles Michael Jason
• Cotte Ariane
• Hariharan Sriram
• Watson Robert D
• Ranade Sarang S
• Graham David C

Classifications

• H04M1/72412

  using two-way short-range wireless interfaces · CPC title

• G06F9/542

  Event management; Broadcasting; Multicasting; Notifications · CPC title

• H04W24/00

  Supervisory, monitoring or testing arrangements · CPC title

• H04W92/18

  between terminal devices · CPC title

• H04W4/80

  Services using short range communication, e.g. near-field communication [NFC], radio-frequency identification [RFID] or low energy communication · CPC title