Patent ID: 8745717

Claim:
A method implemented at a first device for managing wireless connections, the method comprising: storing wireless connection information for each of a plurality of devices wirelessly connected to the first device, wherein the wireless connection information comprises either a wireless link key or a secure pairing key; indicating a status of one of the plurality of devices as stale when: a period elapsed from a last connection time stored at the first device for said one of the plurality of devices exceeds a defined period, or a software version of software installed on said one of the plurality of devices does not match an expected software version stored at the first device; and in response to the one of the plurality of devices being stale, implementing one or more of: transmitting, to remaining ones of the plurality of devices not indicated as stale, an indication of said one of the plurality of devices as stale; requesting a connection password from said one of the plurality of devices upon a subsequent attempted communication from said device to the first device; terminating a wireless pairing with said one of the plurality of devices; or clearing the wireless connection information for said one of the plurality of devices.