Establishing and Maintaining an Authenticated Connection Between a Smart Pen and a Computing Device

摘要

A system and method establishes a connection between a smart pen and a computing device, and establishes a privilege level that regulates data requests for specific data from the smart pen. The smart pen determines whether a connection should be established between the smart pen and a computing device, based on device information received from the computing device. If a connection is established, a privilege level is established for an application executing on the computing device based on the device information, which determines whether a request from the application for specific data from the smart pen is allowed or denied.

主权项

1. A computer-implemented method comprising:
transmitting a request from a smart pen for device information for a computing device; receiving, by the smart pen, a response from the computing device regarding the transmitted request; determining whether a wireless connection should be established between the smart pen and the computing device based on the response; responsive to determining that the wireless connection should be established, establishing the wireless connection; receiving from the computing device, a token encoding a privilege level for an application executing on the computing device, the privilege level selected from a set of predefined privilege levels including at least a first privilege level that enables access only to real-time gesture data but denies access to previously captured historical data stored on the smart pen, and a second privilege level that enables access to both the real-time gesture data and the previously captured historical data; receiving a request from the application executing on the computing device for the previously captured historical data stored on the smart pen; and determining, by the smart pen, whether to allow or deny the request from the application from the smart pen based on the privilege level for the application encoded in the token.