WO2013104153A1 - Quick bluetooth device pairing method and bluetooth device - Google Patents

Description

 Method for quickly pairing bluetooth devices and bluetooth device

Technical field

 The present invention relates to the field of communications, and in particular, to a method for quickly pairing Bluetooth devices and a Bluetooth device. BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION Near Field Communication (NFC) is a short-range wireless communication technology suitable for handheld mobile devices, combining the functions of an RFID reader and a smart card. NFC's communication distance is usually 0-10 cm, which is a very safe communication range. Within this distance, data transfer between the two devices can be completed in a very short time. NFC technology has the advantages of simple and convenient connection, safe communication and automatic, and is a wireless communication technology that is very suitable for mobile phones. With the continuous development of wireless mobile communication, more and more wireless communication devices have emerged. As a product of mobile communication development, Bluetooth headsets make up for the inconvenience and limited use of traditional wired headsets. As shown in Figure 1, the traditional pairing process of a Bluetooth headset generally includes the following steps:

S101: The user turns on the Bluetooth headset;

S102: Press and hold the designated button for about 10 seconds. After receiving the specified prompt, the Bluetooth headset enters the pairing state;

S103: The mobile terminal searches for the Bluetooth headset device; S104: After about 5 seconds, the target Bluetooth headset device is found, and the search is successful; since there may be multiple Bluetooth devices around the mobile terminal, the process of searching for the target Bluetooth headset device may Longer.

S105: The user enters the password and enters the pairing process; in this step, the user needs to manually input the matching data such as the pairing code and the random number required for the Bluetooth pairing.

S106: Wait for about 3 seconds, and the pairing is completed. At this point, the user can use the Bluetooth headset. However, the existing use of the Bluetooth headset is only designed for users who are familiar with the Bluetooth headset. The existing pairing method of the Bluetooth headset and the mobile terminal requires the user to manually input the pairing password, the operation is complicated, and the process of searching for the Bluetooth headset is also long. The long pairing time greatly affects the user experience. Therefore, it is urgent to propose a simple and fast way to use the Bluetooth headset, expand the popularity of the Bluetooth headset, bring convenience to the general users and professional users, and improve the user experience. SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The technical problem to be solved by the present invention is to provide a method for quickly pairing Bluetooth devices and a Bluetooth device, which is simple and easy to implement based on NFC technology, and greatly shortens the time of Bluetooth pairing, and brings convenience to the general users and professional users. , improve the user experience. In order to solve the above technical problem, the present invention provides a method for quickly pairing Bluetooth devices, including: establishing a near field communication point-to-point (NFC P2P) connection between a first Bluetooth device that turns on Bluetooth and a second Bluetooth device, through the NFC The P2P connection exchanges the out-of-band OOB data required for the Bluetooth pairing; the pairing is completed using the OOB data that has been exchanged. Preferably, the performing the pairing by using the exchanged OOB data comprises: the first Bluetooth device initiating a Bluetooth pairing process to the second Bluetooth device, the two parties entering a pairing process, using the exchanged OOB data, Complete the pairing. Preferably, the first Bluetooth device is a mobile terminal, and the second Bluetooth device is a Bluetooth headset; or the first Bluetooth device is a Bluetooth headset, and the second Bluetooth device is a mobile terminal. Preferably, the first Bluetooth device is a mobile terminal, and the second Bluetooth device is a Bluetooth headset, the method includes: turning on the Bluetooth headset to enable the Bluetooth headset to be powered on; and connecting the NFC-enabled mobile terminal and the Bluetooth headset to each other Close, establish an NFC P2P connection; the mobile terminal and the Bluetooth headset exchange the Bluetooth pairing required through the established NFC P2P connection

OOB data; The mobile terminal or Bluetooth headset initiates the pairing process, and both parties enter the pairing process to complete the pairing. Preferably, the OOB data required for the mobile terminal to exchange Bluetooth pairing with the Bluetooth headset through the established NFC P2P connection comprises: the mobile terminal transmitting the encapsulated local OOB data to the Bluetooth headset through the established NFC P2P connection; the Bluetooth headset ringing The OOB data should be requested to be fed back to the mobile terminal, and the received OOB data is parsed; the mobile terminal receives the OOB data returned by the Bluetooth headset, and performs parsing to complete the data exchange. In order to solve the above technical problem, the present invention further provides a Bluetooth device, including: a data exchange module, configured to: establish a near field communication point-to-point (NFC P2P) connection with a Bluetooth-enabled peer Bluetooth device, by using the The NFC P2P connects the outband OOB data required for the Bluetooth pairing with the peer Bluetooth device; the Bluetooth communication module is configured to: perform pairing with the peer Bluetooth device by using the OOB data that has been exchanged. Preferably, the data exchange module includes a near field communication module and a data processing module, where: the near field communication module is configured to: establish the NFC P2P connection with the peer Bluetooth device, and connect through the NFC P2P The OOB data required for the Bluetooth pairing is sent to the peer Bluetooth device, and the OOB data sent by the peer Bluetooth device is received and forwarded to the data processing module; the data processing module is configured to: encapsulate the local OOB data, Sending to the near field communication module, and parsing the OOB data forwarded by the near field communication module, and after the analysis is completed, notifying the data exchange of the Bluetooth communication module is completed; the Bluetooth communication module is set as: receiving the data processing After the notification of the module, initiate a pairing process with the peer Bluetooth device, and use the exchanged OOB data to complete pairing with the peer Bluetooth device; or, after receiving the pairing request of the peer Bluetooth device, And pairing with the peer Bluetooth device by using the OOB data that has been exchanged. Preferably, the Bluetooth device is a mobile terminal, and the opposite Bluetooth device is a Bluetooth headset; or The Bluetooth device is a Bluetooth headset, and the peer Bluetooth device is a mobile terminal. The method for quickly pairing Bluetooth devices and the Bluetooth device provided by the embodiments of the present invention are simple and easy to use based on the NFC technology, and shorten the time for the first Bluetooth device to search for the target Bluetooth device, and the user does not need to manually input the data required for the Bluetooth pairing. Automatically exchange data, greatly shortening the time of Bluetooth pairing, bringing convenience to the general users and professional users; Moreover, compared with the existing Bluetooth headset, the Bluetooth headset of the present invention can actively request and exchange data with the peer end and actively Initiating the Bluetooth pairing process, adding the function of the Bluetooth headset and improving the user experience. BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS FIG. 1 is a conventional pairing flowchart of a Bluetooth headset; FIG. 2 is a structural diagram of a Bluetooth device in an embodiment;

 3 is a flow chart of a method for quickly pairing Bluetooth devices in an embodiment;

 4 is a flow chart of a method for quickly pairing a mobile terminal with a Bluetooth headset in an application example; FIG. 5 is a flow chart of data interaction between a mobile terminal and a Bluetooth headset through an established NFC P2P connection in an application example.

Preferred embodiment of the invention

 In order to make the objects, the technical solutions and the advantages of the present invention more clearly, the embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings. It should be noted that, in the case of no conflict, the features in the embodiments and the embodiments of the present application may be arbitrarily combined with each other.

 Example:

As shown in FIG. 2, the embodiment provides a Bluetooth device, including: a data exchange module and a Bluetooth communication module, where: a data exchange module, configured to establish a near field communication point-to-point with a Bluetooth device that turns on Bluetooth ( An NFC P2P) connection, an Out of Band (OOB) data required for exchanging Bluetooth pairing with the peer Bluetooth device through an established NFC P2P connection; a Bluetooth communication module for utilizing the exchanged OOB Data, completed with the peer Bluetooth device Pairing. In a preferred embodiment, the data exchange module includes: a near field communication module and a data processing module, where: the near field communication module is configured to establish an NFC P2P connection with the peer Bluetooth device, The established NFC P2P connection sends the OOB data required for the Bluetooth pairing to the peer Bluetooth device, and receives the OOB data sent by the peer Bluetooth device, and forwards the OOB data to the data processing module; wherein the near field communication module has the NFC function; The data processing module is configured to encapsulate the local OOB data, send the data to the near field communication module, and parse the OOB data forwarded by the near field communication module, and notify the Bluetooth communication module that the data exchange is completed after the analysis is completed; the Bluetooth communication module After the notification of the data processing module is received, initiate a pairing process with the peer Bluetooth device, and use the exchanged OOB data to complete pairing with the peer Bluetooth device; or, receive After the pairing request of the peer Bluetooth device, the OOB data exchanged is used, and the peer Bluetooth device is finished. Paired. In this embodiment, the Bluetooth devices that communicate with each other may be a mobile terminal and a Bluetooth headset. As shown in FIG. 3, this embodiment provides a method for quickly pairing Bluetooth devices, including the following steps:

 S201: The first Bluetooth device that turns on the Bluetooth establishes a near field communication point-to-point (NFC P2P) connection with the second Bluetooth device. The first Bluetooth device and the second Bluetooth device have an NFC function.

 S202: exchange out-of-band (OOB) data required for the Bluetooth pairing by using the NFC P2P connection.

 The OOB data includes: a Bluetooth address, a pairing code, and a random number.

S203: Perform pairing by using the OOB data that has been exchanged. The first Bluetooth device initiates a Bluetooth pairing process to the second Bluetooth device, and the two parties Entering the pairing process, using the exchanged OOB data, complete the pairing. In this embodiment, the first Bluetooth device is a mobile terminal, and the second Bluetooth device is a Bluetooth headset; or the first Bluetooth device is a Bluetooth headset, and the second Bluetooth device is a mobile terminal. Both the mobile terminal and the Bluetooth headset can initiate a Bluetooth pairing process to the peer end, and then both parties enter a pairing process, and the paired OOB data is used to complete the pairing. Taking the first Bluetooth device as a mobile terminal and the second Bluetooth device as a Bluetooth headset as an example, the method for quickly pairing the Bluetooth device in this embodiment is further described in detail below with reference to FIG. 4, the mobile terminal and the Bluetooth headset are fast. The process of pairing is as follows:

S301: The user turns on the Bluetooth headset to turn the Bluetooth headset on; S302: Connect the NFC-enabled mobile terminal and the Bluetooth headset to each other to establish an NFC P2P connection; here, the near field communication module of the mobile terminal and the near field of the Bluetooth headset The communication module can send a request for Bluetooth paired exchange data to the opposite end to establish an NFC P2P connection.

S303: The mobile terminal exchanges the OOB data required for the Bluetooth pairing with the Bluetooth headset through the established NFC P2P connection. In this embodiment, it is assumed that the near field communication module of the mobile terminal initiates a Bluetooth pairing exchange data request to the Bluetooth headset, as shown in the figure. As shown in FIG. 5, the process of data interaction between the mobile terminal and the Bluetooth headset through the established NFC P2P connection includes the following steps:

S401: The near field communication module of the mobile terminal sends the local OOB data encapsulated in the data processing module to the Bluetooth headset through the established NFC P2P connection;

S402: The near field communication module of the Bluetooth headset responds to the request, and feeds back its OOB data to the mobile terminal, and forwards the received OOB data to its data processing module for parsing;

S403: The near field communication module of the mobile terminal receives the OOB data returned by the Bluetooth headset, and forwards it to the data processing module for parsing. At this point, the mobile terminal and the Bluetooth headset have already exchanged the data required for Bluetooth pairing. In this embodiment, the mobile terminal already has the target Bluetooth headset, so the mobile terminal will be directly The proximity to the Bluetooth headset eliminates the need for the mobile terminal to search for the target Bluetooth headset and the process of having to manually enter the password, which greatly shortens the data exchange time.

S304: The mobile terminal or the Bluetooth headset initiates the pairing process, and the two parties enter the pairing process. In this embodiment, the Bluetooth communication module of the mobile terminal and the Bluetooth communication module of the Bluetooth headset can initiate a pairing process with the peer end, using the exchanged OOB data, complete pairing.

S305: After about 3 seconds, the pairing is completed. At this point, both parties can communicate. As can be seen from the foregoing embodiments, the Bluetooth device fast pairing method and the Bluetooth device provided in the foregoing embodiments are simple and easy to implement based on the NFC technology, because the first Bluetooth device already has the target Bluetooth device. Establishing an NFC P2P connection with the target Bluetooth device shortens the time for the first Bluetooth device to search for the target Bluetooth device, and does not require the user to manually input the data required for Bluetooth pairing, automatically exchange data, greatly shortening the time of Bluetooth pairing, for the vast majority The convenience of the ordinary user and the professional user; Moreover, compared with the existing Bluetooth headset, the Bluetooth headset in this embodiment can actively request to exchange data with the peer end and actively initiate a Bluetooth pairing process, thereby increasing the function of the Bluetooth headset and improving the function. user experience.

 One of ordinary skill in the art will appreciate that all or a portion of the above steps may be accomplished by a program instructing the associated hardware, such as a read-only memory, a magnetic disk, or an optical disk. Alternatively, all or part of the steps of the above embodiments may also be implemented using one or more integrated circuits. Correspondingly, each module/unit in the above embodiment may be implemented in the form of hardware or in the form of a software function module. The invention is not limited to any specific form of combination of hardware and software.

 The above description is only a preferred embodiment of the present invention and is not intended to limit the scope of protection of the present invention. In view of the present invention, various other modifications, equivalents, improvements, etc., should be made without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention. It is included in the scope of protection of the present invention.

Industrial applicability The method for quickly pairing Bluetooth devices and the Bluetooth device provided by the embodiments of the present invention are simple and easy to use based on the NFC technology, and shorten the time for the first Bluetooth device to search for the target Bluetooth device, and the user does not need to manually input the data required for the Bluetooth pairing. Automatically exchange data, greatly shortening the time of Bluetooth pairing, bringing convenience to the general users and professional users; Moreover, compared with the existing Bluetooth headset, the Bluetooth headset of the present invention can actively request and exchange data with the peer end and actively Initiating the Bluetooth pairing process, adding the function of the Bluetooth headset and improving the user experience.

Claims

Claim A method for quickly pairing a Bluetooth device, comprising: establishing a near field communication point-to-point (NFC P2P) connection between a first Bluetooth device that enables Bluetooth and a second Bluetooth device, and exchanging Bluetooth pairing required by the NFC P2P connection Out-of-band (OOB) data; pairing is done using the OOB data that has been exchanged. 2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the performing the pairing by using the exchanged OOB data comprises: the first Bluetooth device initiating a Bluetooth pairing process to the second Bluetooth device, and the two parties enter a pairing process The pairing is completed using the OOB data that has been exchanged. The method of claim 1, wherein the first Bluetooth device is a mobile terminal, the second Bluetooth device is a Bluetooth headset, or the first Bluetooth device is a Bluetooth headset, and the second Bluetooth The device is a mobile terminal. The method of claim 3, wherein the first Bluetooth device is a mobile terminal, and the second Bluetooth device is a Bluetooth headset, the method comprising: turning on a Bluetooth headset to enable the Bluetooth headset to be powered on; The NFC-enabled mobile terminal and the Bluetooth headset are close to each other to establish an NFC P2P connection; the mobile terminal and the Bluetooth headset exchange the OOB data required for the Bluetooth pairing through the established NFC P2P connection; the mobile terminal or the Bluetooth headset initiates the pairing process, and the two parties enter the pairing Process, complete pairing. 5. The method of claim 4, wherein the mobile terminal and the Bluetooth headset pass the established The NOB data required for the NFC P2P connection to exchange the Bluetooth pairing includes: the mobile terminal sends the encapsulated local OOB data to the Bluetooth headset through the established NFC P2P connection; the Bluetooth headset responds to the request and feeds back its OOB data to the mobile terminal. At the same time, the received OOB data is parsed; The mobile terminal receives the OOB data returned by the Bluetooth headset, and performs parsing to complete the data exchange. 6. A Bluetooth device, comprising: a data exchange module, configured to: establish a near field communication point-to-point (NFC P2P) connection with a Bluetooth device that turns on Bluetooth, and connect the peer Bluetooth through the NFC P2P connection The device exchanges the outband OOB data required for the Bluetooth pairing; the Bluetooth communication module is configured to: perform pairing with the peer Bluetooth device by using the OOB data that has been exchanged. The Bluetooth device of claim 6, wherein the data exchange module comprises a near field communication module and a data processing module, wherein: the near field communication module is configured to: establish the The NFC P2P connection is configured to send the OOB data required for the Bluetooth pairing to the peer Bluetooth device by using the NFC P2P connection, and receive the OOB data sent by the peer Bluetooth device, and forward the data to the data processing module; The data processing module is configured to: encapsulate the local OOB data, send the data to the near field communication module, and parse the OOB data forwarded by the near field communication module, and notify the Bluetooth communication module that the data exchange is completed after the analysis is completed; The module is configured to: initiate a pairing process with the peer Bluetooth device after receiving the notification of the data processing module, and perform pairing with the peer Bluetooth device by using the exchanged OOB data; or, receive After the pairing request of the peer Bluetooth device, using the exchanged OOB data, and the peer Bluetooth device Complete the pairing. The Bluetooth device of claim 7, wherein the Bluetooth device is a mobile terminal, the peer Bluetooth device is a Bluetooth headset; or the Bluetooth device is a Bluetooth headset, and the peer Bluetooth device is a mobile device. terminal.