Patent ID: 9560184
Date: 2017-01-31
CPC Classifications: H04L,H04M,H04W

Claim:
1. A method performed by a portable device, comprising: receiving a Bluetooth communications request from a computing device, the Bluetooth communications request including a device identification of the computing device; automatically accessing a list of trusted device identifications stored in a memory of the portable device, the list of trusted device identifications indicating one or more devices that previously established a communication session with the portable device; displaying a representation of the device identification received from the computing device on a display device of the portable device; determining whether the received device identification is in the list of trusted device identifications; establishing a Bluetooth connection with the computing device by sending a Bluetooth page message to the computing device, without receiving a Bluetooth inquiry message from the computing device, in response to determining that the received device identification is in the list of trusted device identifications; and rejecting the Bluetooth communications request in response to determining that the received device identification is not in the list of trusted device identifications.