Patent ID: 7974536

Claim:
An electronic communication device comprising: an illumination light source and an optical receiver, wherein the illumination light source illuminates at least one component of the electronic device, and wherein the illumination light source and the optical receiver are operatively connected to a data processor and are utilized to establish an optical communication link for communicating configuration requests and configuration responses with another electronic device via optical pulses encoded with the configuration requests and configuration responses; wherein the optical communication link is a first data communication link; at least one data communication module, which is utilized to establish a different-type, second data communication link on which data communication is completed; first logic, coupled to the data processor, for (a) initiating an authentication and configuration connection via the optical communication link and (b) transmitting a configuration request utilizing the illumination light source and (c) receiving, via the optical receiver, a configuration response transmitted over the optical communication link, which configuration response includes information required to establish and configure a data communication channel over the second data communication link; and second logic, coupled to the first logic and the at least one data communication module, for responding to a receipt of the configuration response to said configuration request by enabling data to be communicated over the second data communication link.