Patent ID: 7194238

Claim:
A method for identifying a terminal in a short-range wireless data transmission system comprising at least a first device and a second device, wherein at least said first device comprises a device-specific first device identifier and a general device name, the method comprising: storing, in a memory of said second device, at least one name identifier; receiving information, by said second device, regarding the device-specific first device identifier and the general device name of said first device; showing a list of received device names to a user of said second device including the general device name of said first device; offering to the user of said second device a possibility to amend the shown general device name of said first device into the at least one stored name identifier by linking said device-specific first identifier to the at least one name identifier stored in the memory of said second device; and if the user wishes to link the device-specific first device identifier to the at least one name identifier, linking the device-specific first device identifier to the at least one name identifier stored in the memory of said second device for enabling said second device to show the at least one stored name identifier linked with the device-specific first identifier upon subsequent reception of information regarding said device-specific first identifier.