A communication method and apparatus

摘要

A piconet of consumer devices (1) communicate with the Bluetooth protocol, and a mobile phone (2) automatically captures consumer data including user data and device data. The mobile phone (2) has a Bluetooth interface, a mobile network interface, and a bridging circuit between them. The bridging circuit is used to automatically update a management system (2) with captured data via the mobile network. The management system (3) uses the captured data to update a user profile. It then uses the profile data to filter available services and push the selected services to the user.