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US 8718558
Methods and apparatus for use in facilitating communications over first and second wireless connections of a wireless transceiver
Current assignee: Malikie Innovations Ltd
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Patent summary
Title, assignee, inventors, filing/issue dates, abstract, and a plain-language overview of the claims.
Patent Overview — US 8,718,558 B2
Title: Methods and apparatus for use in facilitating communications over first and second wireless connections of a wireless transceiver
Source: https://patents.google.com/patent/US8718558/en
Key bibliographic data (per the supplied excerpt):
- Patent number: US 8,718,558 B2; Application No. US 13/449,879; Pre-grant publication US 2013/0281020 A1
- Inventor: Michael Peter Montemurro
- Original assignee: BlackBerry Ltd. (assignment records also show Research in Motion Limited and BlackBerry Limited); current assignee listed as Malikie Innovations Ltd.
- Filing/priority date: 2012-04-18; granted/publication date: 2014-05-06
- Status listed as Active, with an adjusted expiration of 2032-09-22
- Classifications include H04W76/10, H04W76/15, H04W76/16, H04W88/06, and H04L2101/622
Purpose and plain-language scope: The disclosure relates to wireless communication devices, such as IEEE 802.11 (Wi-Fi) devices, and to techniques for facilitating communications over first and second wireless connections of a wireless transceiver. The device communicates over a first wireless connection using a first universally administered hardware address (e.g., a MAC address), and over a second wireless connection using a second universally administered hardware address. In one example, the MAC address of an IEEE 802.11 transceiver identifies the device for WLAN-STA connections, while the MAC address of a BLUETOOTH transceiver identifies the device for Wi-Fi Peer-to-Peer (P2P) connections. The connections may be concurrent. The excerpt indicates memory storing profiles each associated with a first connection type (e.g., WLAN-STA) or a second connection type (e.g., Wi-Fi P2P), and describes methods via flowcharts (FIGS. 11–12).
What the excerpt does not establish: It does not provide the full text of the claims, the complete written description, or the exact claim limitations. It does not establish the content of any figures, the prior art relied upon, or the scope of prosecution history. It does not establish enforceability, validity, or the accuracy of the listed legal status or assignee data, which Google Patents itself characterizes as assumptions rather than legal conclusions.
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