Patent ID: 9184835
Filing Date: 2015-11-10
Classification: H04B,H04L,H04W

Abstract:
1. A method, comprising: using, at a hub device, one or more of a plurality of different wireless communication interfaces to detect a presence of a plurality of different wireless devices, wherein, each of the plurality of different wireless devices is initially unknown to the hub device and implements a type of wireless connectivity that is further initially unknown to the hub device; accessing a data structure, stored at a location remote from the hub device, to retrieve device connectivity profiles associated with the detected plurality of different wireless devices, wherein each of the retrieved device connectivity profiles identifies one or more types of wireless connectivity that are currently available for communication with a respective one of the detected plurality of different wireless devices; configuring, at the hub device based on each of the retrieved device connectivity profiles, one of the one or more types of wireless connectivity available for communication with a respective one of the detected plurality of different wireless devices; and connecting, at the hub device, to the plurality of different wireless devices, using the one of the one or more types of wireless connectivity available for communication with each of the detected plurality of different wireless devices.