Chapter 11. The Bluetooth Profiles

Volume 2 of the specification consists of the profiles. These are intended to promote interoperability among many implementations of the protocol stack that is specified in volume 1. In this chapter we discuss the general nature of the profiles—the rationale for generating them, their history and evolution and the interrelationships among them. Each of the version 1.0 profiles is then examined in more detail in subsequent chapters.

The Version 1.0 Profiles

Profiles spring from usage cases. Chapter 3 discussed the usage scenarios that were part of the development of the version 1.0 specification (although not all usage cases resulted in a corresponding profile for version 1.0). Many of the profiles can be grouped ...

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