Chapter 18. The ESDP: An Overview

Introduction

In our introduction of the Service Discovery Application Profile (SDAP) and the Service Discovery Protocol (SDP), Chapter 3, we discussed in some detail that in combination these two components provided us with a foundation on which we can establish user-level clarity with the discovered services of Bluetooth enabled devices that are in radio range. The SDAP establishes a level of basic functionality, abstracted from SDP. SDAP collects and organises service information from the remote device, allowing the user to make an informed decision about the services on offer.

The Extended Service Discovery Profile (ESDP) is an extension of the SDP, where its primary aim is to help extend the availability of ...

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