Patent ID: 7589726
Filing Date: 2009-09-15
Classification: H04L,H04W

Abstract:
1. A method, comprising: maintaining in a device one or more icons associated with short-range services; receiving icon information relating to an available service as a value in a field of a packet from a source device providing wireless short-range services within a wireless short-range communications range of the device; accessing an icon corresponding to the received icon information without establishing a wireless short-range connection between the device and the source device; displaying the icon corresponding to the icon information; periodically determining whether the source device is within the short-range communications range of the device without establishing a wireless short-range connection between the device and the source device; removing the display of the icon after a predetermined time interval following the determination that the source device is no longer within the wireless short-range communications range of the device; receiving an indication of selection of the displayed icon from a user of the device; and initiating establishment of a wireless short-range connection with the source device based on the received packet in response to receiving the selection indication from the user of the device.