Method for automatically connecting mobile communication terminal to home network system using bluetooth® and mobile communication terminal adapted thereto

• US 20060270350A1
• Filed: 05/30/2006
• Published: 11/30/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 05/30/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. (Samsung Group)
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. (Samsung Group)
• Inventors: Kim, Sang-Don
• Application Number:
  US11/442,748
• Publication Number:
  US 20060270350A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/41.200
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 68/00 User notification, e.g. alerting and paging, for incoming communication, change of service or the like
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 68/12 Inter-network notification

Abstract

A method for automatically connecting a mobile communication terminal to a home network system using Bluetooth® and a mobile communication terminal adapted thereto are provided. A stationary appliance performs paging pursuant to a preset profile regardless of a Bluetooth® profile to be used between a mobile communication terminal and the stationary appliance. If the stationary appliance requests the mobile communication terminal to connect to its own service after the stationary appliance and the mobile communication terminal are connected to each other pursuant to the preset profile, the mobile communication terminal performs paging pursuant only to a profile of the corresponding service, and the stationary appliance performs page scan. In this way, the mobile communication terminal is connected to the corresponding service of the stationary appliance.

Claims

1. A mobile communication terminal for automatically connecting to a home network system using a short range wireless connection such as Bluetooth®

, the terminal comprising;

a Bluetooth®

module for Bluetooth®

communication; and

a control unit for performing page scan pursuant to a specific preset profile, connecting to a stationary appliance of a home network pursuant to the preset profile if detecting paging from the stationary appliance, and performing paging pursuant to a service profile provided by the stationary appliance, in order to connect to a service of the stationary appliance through the Bluetooth®

module.

2. The mobile communication terminal as claimed in claim 1, wherein if the control unit receives a page response from the stationary appliance, it connects to a corresponding service of the stationary appliance.

3. The mobile communication terminal as claimed in claim 1, wherein the preset profile is a serial port profile (SPP).

4. The mobile communication terminal as claimed in claim 1, wherein the service profile of the stationary appliance is a cordless telephony profile (CTP).

5. The mobile communication terminal as claimed in claim 1, wherein the stationary appliance performs paging for the preset profile and paging for the profile of the service, for which it intends to provide to the mobile communication terminal, in order.

6. The mobile communication terminal as claimed in claim 1, wherein if the stationary appliance transmits an instruction, which instructs the mobile communication terminal to connect to its own service, to the mobile communication terminal, the control unit receives the instruction.

7. A method for automatically connecting a mobile communication terminal to a home network system using a short range wireless connection, such as Bluetooth®

, the method comprising the steps of;

in a corresponding stationary appliance, periodically performing paging pursuant to a specific preset profile;

in the mobile communication terminal, performing page scan pursuant to the preset profile to connect to the stationary appliance;

transmitting an instruction, which instructs the mobile communication terminal to connect to a service of the stationary appliance through a connection pursuant to the preset profile, from the stationary appliance to the mobile communication terminal; and

if the mobile communication terminal receives the instruction, performing paging pursuant to a corresponding service profile of the stationary appliance.

8. The method as claimed in claim 7, further comprising in the stationary appliance, performing page scan pursuant to the corresponding service profile and connecting the service to the mobile communication terminal.

9. The method as claimed in claim 7, wherein the preset profile is an SPP.

10. The method as claimed in claim 7, wherein the service profile of the stationary appliance is a CTP.