System and method for automatic bluetooth pairing

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9949065-B1
Application number	US-201715698724-A
Country	US
Kind code	B1
Filing date	Sep 8, 2017
Priority date	Dec 30, 2016
Publication date	Apr 17, 2018
Grant date	Apr 17, 2018

Abstract

A method and system for automatically connecting one customer device with another over a Bluetooth or similar connection. The automatic connection may be made by generating a unique identifier to store on a new customer device and a backend system associated with an existing customer device and connecting the new customer device with the existing customer device using the unique identifier.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A Bluetooth-pairing device comprising: data storage storing a software application;
a Bluetooth antenna;
an input/output interface; and
a microprocessor configured to:
receive, via the input/output interface, interaction data associated with the software application;
transmit, via the input/output interface, a request for a first unique identifier (ID) to a device provider system in response to the received interaction data associated with the software application;
receive, in response to the transmitted request, the first unique ID;
transmit, via the Bluetooth antenna, an advertising packet to a new device;
receive, via the Bluetooth antenna, a response to the advertising packet comprising a second unique ID from the new device;
compare the second unique ID with the first unique ID;
generate, if the first unique ID and the second unique ID match, a link key, wherein the link key is based on at least a portion of the first or second unique ID;
transmit, via the Bluetooth antenna, at least a portion of the link key to the new device; and
pair the Bluetooth-pairing device with the new device using at least a portion of the link key.

2. The Bluetooth-pairing device of claim 1 , wherein the first and/or second unique ID is generated using existing data comprising a mobile device number, a customer name, a customer address, a customer account number, and/or a device identifier.

3. The Bluetooth-pairing device of claim 1 , wherein the first and/or second unique ID is generated using a random number generator.

4. The Bluetooth-pairing device of claim 1 , wherein the first and/or second unique ID is stored on a backend system hosted by the device provider.

5. The Bluetooth-pairing device of claim 1 , wherein the Bluetooth-pairing device controls wireless communications based on the device provider generated unique ID.

6. The Bluetooth-pairing device of claim 1 , wherein the link key generates an encrypted Asynchronous Connection-Less (ACL) link that provides a secure connection between the Bluetooth-pairing device and the new device.

7. The Bluetooth-pairing device of claim 1 , wherein the new device comprises an electronic transaction card.

8. The Bluetooth-pairing device of claim 1 , wherein the advertising packet comprises data associated with the new device.

Assignees

• Capital One Services Llc

Inventors

• ZARAKAS James
• Kelly Kevin
• SANGI Saleem
• Koeppel Adam

Classifications

• H04L63/083

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• G06Q2220/00

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• H04L9/0819

  Key transport or distribution, i.e. key establishment techniques where one party creates or otherwise obtains a secret value, and securely transfers it to the other(s) (network architectures or network communication protocols for key distribution in a packet data network H04L63/062) · CPC title

• H04L63/0869

  for achieving mutual authentication (cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for mutual authentication H04L9/3273) · CPC title

• H04W12/04

  Key management, e.g. using generic bootstrapping architecture [GBA] · CPC title