F, G, I
female serial port
A serial port with pinholes
flow control
The control of transmission between communications
devices, to make sure the sender does not send data until
the receiver is ready to receive it
friendly name
A name you can assign to a
Bluetooth
enabled device,
e.g., “Lesley’s Computer.” If the
Bluetooth
enabled
device is discoverable, the friendly name is provided to
other
Bluetooth
enabled devices during device discovery
gender changer
An adapter that changes a serial connector from male to
female, or vice versa
initiator
A
Bluetooth
enabled device that initiates an action (e.g.,
a connection) to another
Bluetooth
enabled device,
known as the acceptor
inquiry scan
A mode that a remote device enters when advertising
that a service is available
L, M, N, P
local host
or
local device
The device that the CSA is attached to
male serial port
A serial port with pins
null modem
An adapter that enables two RS-232 DTE devices to
communicate with each other without a regular modem
or other DCE device between them
page scan
A mode in which a
Bluetooth
enabled device analyzes
pages by other
Bluetooth
enabled devices to determine if
any of the pages are addressed to it. Before connecting
to a remote device, a local device must get the remote
device's attention by paging the remote device.
parity
An integer's property of being odd or even. Parity
checking is used to detect errors in binary-coded data
R, S
remote device
The other
Bluetooth
enabled device that the CSA
connects to
RS-232
(Recommended Standard-232.) An Electronics
Industries Association standard for asynchronous serial
lines, used commonly for modems, computer terminals,
and serial printers. RS-232 uses a 25-pin or 9-pin
connector
Serial Port Profile
A serial communications service offered by a
Bluetooth
enabled device, which must be implemented as defined
by the
Bluetooth
SIG. For two
Bluetooth
enabled
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