OUTPUT DEVICES THAT ESTABLISH WIRELESS CONNECTION WITH AN INFORMATION APPARATUS SUBSEQUENT TO HAVING BEEN WIRELESSLY DISCOVERED BY THE INFORMATION APPARATUS

摘要

Output devices (or output controllers connectable to an output device) that establish a wireless connection with an information apparatus are herein disclosed and enabled. An output device may be an audio output device, a printer, a television, a projector, or a display device. The output device may include one or more chips or chipsets that are compatible with Bluetooth or IEEE 802.11 standards. The output device is operable to: wirelessly announce its availability for the information apparatus to wirelessly discover the output device when the information apparatus is within a limited physical distance to the output device; wirelessly transmit one or more device attributes related to the output device from the output device to the information apparatus that has wirelessly discovered the output device; and wirelessly receive, from the information apparatus, output data that is in accordance, at least in part, to the one or more device attributes.