Connector Pad sits between your phone and whatever you're trying to reach — a speaker, a screen, a card reader — trading the pairing menu for one tap, and screening every byte that's allowed to cross it.
Audio mode — the pad clears whoever paired last, opens a Bluetooth channel, and your source starts talking straight to the speaker.
Cables gave way to docking stations, and docking stations gave way to Bluetooth speakers — but every new phone that walks into range still has to fight through discovery, pairing, and whatever the last phone left behind.
The order matters — each step in the sequence hands off to the next without asking you to open an app first.
An NFC‑ready phone — or one wearing the NFC adapter case — exchanges an ID with the pad the instant it's near. No menu, no search list.
A forget‑device command wipes whatever paired last, so there's no conflict, then opens one dedicated line for your device alone.
Audio switches over immediately for playback. Video streams over Wi‑Fi instead, since Bluetooth's 1–3 Mbit/s ceiling can't carry it.
Everything nests around a single programmable microcontroller — sized to sit closed in one hand.
Very short range, very low power — enough to trade an ID the moment two devices touch or nearly touch.
Handles audio switching and device authentication, with independent channels so more than one guest can use it.
Carries video, pulls firmware updates, and bridges to a data disk when no phone is around to stream from.
A blink and a beep confirm the first handshake; a second colour queues a second guest without interrupting the first.
Runs from the mains normally; battery keeps the erase‑on‑disconnect routine alive even if power is cut.
The pad sits as a firewall between your device and whatever it's about to talk to. Every other file type stays exactly where it was.
| You want to | Data type | Reaches host |
|---|---|---|
| Play music | Document / audio | Shared |
| Play video | Video | Shared |
| Make a phone call | Voice only | Shared |
| Use my contact list | Contacts | Held back |
| Share a document | A/V & files | Held back |
| Share a photo | Image | Shared |
Updated anti‑virus and anti‑spam checks run on incoming data before anything is forwarded, so a corrupted or malicious file never reaches the host.
Once you disconnect — or send nothing within a set window — the pad runs a script to wipe your information from the host device. Handy for a rental car or hotel room.
A companion app is the control centre: pick the host, pick what's allowed, and every other data type is shut off until you change it.
An optional quality‑assurance routine samples the stream in a small buffer, checks it, and only then lets it through.
A predetermined slice of the incoming stream is held for a moment — just long enough to inspect.
Continuity, integrity, signal strength and dropped bits are checked against the data type's tolerance.
Clean data is forwarded to the host over Bluetooth or Wi‑Fi, no further action needed.
On a fail, error‑correction rebuilds what it can and the pad re‑activates a dropped connection automatically.
Tolerance depends on the data type: voice can shrug off roughly 1 bad bit in 100, while data and video streams are held to a stricter error rate.
Multiple source devices and multiple host devices can run through one pad — together or one at a time.
Independent NFC, Bluetooth and Wi‑Fi channels let separate guests keep their own stream without crossing wires.
An owner or administrator sets who goes first — useful when, say, one household member always takes precedence.
A second tap while someone's already playing queues politely instead of hijacking the room, unless Do Not Disturb is overridden.
The pad doesn't care whether the host is a home theatre or a card reader — only what you've approved it to share.
One pad, your usual speakers — no re‑pairing when a housemate's phone joins the queue.
Tap into the bedside pad for the TV and speakers, or bring your own if you'd rather not use the house one.
Play music through the car's system without syncing your contact list or call history to it — and nothing lingers after you return the keys.
A simple tap for music or video, appealing to patients who'd rather not fight with settings.
Audio and video conferencing without buying dedicated speakerphones — the app connects to multiple parties.
The same firewalled handshake extends to transacting a payment, not just playing a file.
A palm‑sized hexagonal body with a standby mode and a supervisory mode that watches connection quality.
Two related U.S. filings, both naming the same inventor, cover the hardware and the firewall separately.
The half of the invention concerned with what's allowed to move: gating each data type across the pad, checking incoming signals for viruses and dropped bits, and reconditioning a weak stream before it reaches the host.
The earlier filing: the physical pad itself, the tap‑to‑connect sequence across NFC, Bluetooth and Wi‑Fi, and the forget‑device handshake that clears a speaker for the next guest.