DRAFT Proposal: Bluetooth API for establishing stream connection between a mobile device/application and PC

[Robin Srivastava]

1.0 Propasal's Idea

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This propasal puts forward the idea of allowing stream connection between a
mobile device/applications (J2ME) and desktop applications (J2SE) using
Bluetooth Technology. A number of data sharing methodologies are available
for communicating between two or more desktop application or between two or
more mobile devices/application. This idea, when materialized, will allow
the users to send/receive data from mobile device to PCs in the form of
streams of data and vice-versa via bluetooth.

2.0 Background & Abstraction of Idea from it

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With reference to JSR-82, communication support for the following layers
have been already provided by the aforementioned JSR :-

>> Service Discovery Protocol

>> RFCOMM (type 1 device support)

>> Logical Link Control and Adaptation Protocol (L2CAP)

>> OBEX Support

However the implementation provided by JSR - 82 provide the communication
facilities from one mobile device to yet another mobile device.

On the similar pattern when we talk about two or more PCs - they can
communicate among themselves through various methodologies :-

>> Socket programming

>> RMI

Various types of traffic can be considered while communication which
implements a number of different protocols, example - TCP/IP, UDP etc.

We will be developing an API which would facilitate stream connection
between a mobile device/application and a desktop application. A socket
would be created at the desktop application side and similarly a connector
would open at the side of mobile device/application. A reference of
InputStream and OutputStream on both the sides would be then obtained to
send and receive data as streams.

3.0 Implementaion

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For implementing the idea outlined in this proposal we need to work keeping
in mind three different aspacts :-

>> making and opening a connector at the mobile side

>> making and opening a connector at desktop side

>> allowing the communication of data between them.
It would follow either its own protocol for communication or some existing
standard protocol.
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