Bluetooth low energy devices, systems, and associated methods

1. An apparatus of a BLE device for decreasing energy usage by increasing host sleep time, the apparatus comprising circuitry configured to:

identify BLE GATT data to be routed to a sideband channel separate from the host;

send the BLE GATT data to the sideband channel;

process the BLE GATT data along the sideband channel apart from the host;

monitor processed BLE GATT data for an event of interest; and

send a notification of a detection of the event of interest to the host.

2. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the circuitry is further configured to:

discover a BLE peripheral device; and

establish a BLE connection with the peripheral device.

3. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the circuitry is further configured to:

identify a BLE GATT data type to be routed to the sideband channel; and

configure a BLE core to identify and send the BLE GATT data corresponding to the BLE GATT data type to the sideband channel.

4. The apparatus of claim 3 , wherein the BLE GATT data is identified using an existing BLE data parameter.

5. The apparatus of claim 4 , wherein the existing BLE data parameter includes a parameter selected from the group consisting of a connection handle, a GATT attribute handle, a Universally Unique Identifier (UUID), a peripheral device address, and combinations thereof.

6. The apparatus of claim 3 , wherein the BLE GATT data is identified using existing GATT notification.

7. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the circuitry is further configured to wake the host upon detection of the event of interest.

8. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein processing the BLE GATT data further comprises integrating BLE GATT data from multiple peripheral devices.

9. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein processing the BLE GATT data further comprises incorporating contextual information into the BLE GATT data.

10. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the circuitry includes an integrated sensor hub.

11. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the routing of the BLE GATT data to the sideband channel integrates with existing BLE core specification.

12. A non-transitory machine readable storage medium having instructions embodied thereon for decreasing awake time of a host in a BLE device, the instructions when executed performing the following:

identifying, using a BLE core, BLE GATT data to be routed to a sideband channel separate from the host;

sending, using the BLE core, the BLE GATT data to the sideband channel;

processing, using a processor in the sideband channel, the BLE GATT data;

monitoring, using the processor in the sideband channel, the processed BLE GATT data for an event of interest; and

sending, using the processor, a notification of a detection of the event of interest to the host.

13. The non-transitory machine readable storage medium of claim 12 , further comprising instructions that perform the following when executed:

discovering, using BLE Application Program Interface (API) of the BLE core, a BLE peripheral device; and

establishing, using the BLE API, a BLE connection with the peripheral device.

14. The non-transitory machine readable storage medium of claim 12 , further comprising instructions that perform the following when executed:

identifying a BLE GATT data type to be routed to the sideband channel;

configuring the BLE core to identify the BLE GATT data corresponding to the BLE GATT data type; and

sending, using the BLE core, the BLE GATT data to the sideband channel.

15. The non-transitory machine readable storage medium of claim 12 , wherein processing the BLE GATT data further comprises integrating BLE GATT data from multiple peripheral devices.

16. The non-transitory machine readable storage medium of claim 12 , wherein processing the BLE GATT data further comprises incorporating contextual information into the BLE GATT data.

17. The non-transitory machine readable storage medium of claim 12 , wherein sending the notification of the detection of the event of interest further includes waking the host from a sleep state.