Patent ID: 8520697

Claim:
A Bluetooth-USB dongle, comprising: a device communicator that wirelessly communicates with a Bluetooth device in accordance with a Bluetooth protocol; a system communicator that communicates with a computing device using a Universal Serial Bus (USB) protocol, the system communicator comprising a USB protocol stack and USB multiplexing/demultiplexing circuitry, the USB multiplexing/demultiplexing circuitry being operatively coupled to the USB protocol stack, the USB multiplexing/demultiplexing circuitry being disposed communicatively between the USB protocol stack and a translator; and the translator that translates information received from the Bluetooth device in accordance with the Bluetooth protocol into translated information for use with the computing device in accordance with the USB protocol, the translator being operatively coupled to the device communicator and to the USB multiplexing/demultiplexing circuitry.