Samsung patents wearable tech that switches communication channels
Samsung describes a method where a wearable device finds another device and checks what ways they can talk to each other. The system first connects using a standard method, then switches to a different channel, such as using the human body to send signals, for the rest of the conversation.
In the filing’s own words
A method includes performing, by a first electronic device, discovery of a second electronic device and one or more communication modes associated with the second electronic device, the one or more communication modes including a human body communication mode; performing, by the first electronic device, an association procedure with the second electronic device on a first communication mode; selecting, by the first electronic device, a second communication mode to communicate with the second electronic device; and performing, by the first electronic device, communication with the second electronic device in the second communication mode.
What exactly they claim (claim 1)
1. A method comprising: performing, by a first electronic device, discovery of a second electronic device and one or more communication modes associated with the second electronic device, the one or more communication modes including a human body communication mode (HBC); performing, by the first electronic device, an association procedure with the second electronic device on a first communication mode; selecting, by the first electronic device, a second communication mode to communicate with the second electronic device; and performing, by the first electronic device, communication with the second electronic device in the second communication mode.
Facts
- Company
- Samsung (Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.)
- Official title
- COMMUNICATION MANAGEMENT IN WEARABLE DEVICES
- Publication number
- US20260304283A1
- Application number
- 19575630
- Filed
- Mar 23, 2026
- Published
- Oct 1, 2026
- Inventors
- 4
- Claims
- 20
Classified under
H04W 40/12 Electricity & electronicsH04B 1/385 Electricity & electronicsH04B 13/005 Electricity & electronicsMore from Samsung in Wearables
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Summaries are simplified from the filing’s own abstract and first claim. A patent filing is not a product announcement.
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