Patent ID: 8374550

Claim:
A method of sending data pertaining to an accessory to a mobile device, the accessory and the mobile device being communicable with one another using the Bluetooth™ protocol, the method comprising: establishing a Bluetooth connection between the accessory and the mobile device; in response to establishing the Bluetooth connection between the accessory and the mobile device, determining whether both the accessory and the mobile device support a Bluetooth query application; in response to determining both the accessory and the mobile device support the Bluetooth query application: receiving a Bluetooth query from the mobile device, wherein the Bluetooth query performs at least one function that requests data pertaining to the accessory; executing instructions associated with the received Bluetooth query to obtain the requested data pertaining to the accessory; and sending the requested data over the Bluetooth connection in response to the received Bluetooth query so that the requested data can then be displayed by the mobile device.