Patent ID: 7860459

Claim:
A method for automatically establishing a connection between a master terminal and a slave device, the method comprising: receiving, by the master terminal from the slave device, an inquiry response which has received an input for selecting a connection mode from a user for an inquiry from the master terminal, wherein the inquiry response includes an address of the slave device if the slave device has received an input for a simple connection mode, wherein the inquiry response includes an address of the slave device and direct connection information if the slave device has received an input for a direct connection mode; determining, by the master terminal, whether the direct connection information is included in the inquiry response; acquiring, by the master terminal, the address of the slave device when the direct connection information is determined to be present in the inquiry response; and performing, by the master terminal, paging to the acquired address without entering a standby state for receiving an inquiry response from other slave devices and establishing a connection with the slave device.