Patent ID: 8271662

Claim:
A first computing device, comprising: one or more processors; a short-range wireless communication device configured to transmit and receive information via a short-range wireless communication protocol; a secondary communication device configured to transmit and receive information via a secondary communication protocol, wherein the secondary communication protocol is different from the short-range wireless communication protocol; an accelerometer; and a memory storing instructions that when executed by the one or more processors cause the first computing device to perform a method for communicating with a second computing device, the method comprising: receiving, using the short-range wireless communication device, a request to establish a communication session with the second computing device, wherein the request is transmitted using the short-range wireless communication protocol; in response to the receiving, activating the secondary communication device; detecting, using the accelerometer, an acceleration of the first computing device within a selected period of time determining, by the first computing device and using the short-range wireless communication device, whether a second computing device detected an acceleration of the second computing device within the selected period of time; and establishing a communication session with the second computing device using the secondary communication device when the second computing device detected the acceleration of the second computing device within the selected period of time, wherein the communication session utilizes the secondary communication protocol.