Patent ID: 8560744

Claim:
An input interface providing Universal Serial Bus (USB) apparatus comprising: an USB connector which is connected to a terminal having an USB port and an input device; a device recognition unit which is set to comply with a HID standard and allows the USB apparatus to be recognized as a Human Interface Device (HID) compliance device by the terminal when the USB apparatus is connected to the USB port; a Bluetooth communication unit which is recognized as a standard Bluetooth input device by an external device supporting a Bluetooth device and conducts Bluetooth communication with the external device; a memory unit which stores an execution program which is executed in the terminal, receives data of an input device of the terminal corresponding to the kind of the standard Bluetooth input device, converts the input data into a protocol format according to the HID standard, and transmits the converted input data to the device recognition unit; a data generation unit which receives input device data in the format of HID standard protocol from the device recognition unit, analyzes the input device data according to a format set depending on the kind of the input device, and generates data such that the analyzed data corresponds to a protocol of the standard Bluetooth input device; a controller which transmits the data generated by the data generation unit to the Bluetooth communication unit; and a profile storage unit which stores Bluetooth profiles for Bluetooth input devices of the external device so that the Bluetooth communication unit can be recognized as the standard Bluetooth input device by the external device.