Patent ID: 8112794
Filing Date: 2012-02-07
Classification: H04L,H04W

Abstract:
1. A user device adapted to communicate with a security token access device over a wireless link, the access device being adapted to communicate over a wireless link with a plurality of user devices and to be paired with at least one of the plurality of user devices, and further being adapted to maintain connection information relating to each of the plurality of user devices paired with the access device, the user device comprising: a processor configured to place the user device in an inactivated state in response to a detected input at the user device while maintaining a pairing with the access device, and to reactivate the user device after the user device was in the inactivated state; a receiver for receiving a signal from the access device, the signal comprising a notification that an other user device has been paired with the access device, the other user device being paired with the access device while the user device was in the inactivated state; and a transmitter for transmitting a signal, after the user device is reactivated, to the access device to instruct the access device to terminate the pairing with the other user device, wherein the transmitter is further adapted to transmit a signal to the access device comprising a request for a listing of user devices currently paired with the access device, and the receiver is further adapted to receive a signal from the access device comprising the listing of user devices currently paired with the access device.