Wireless hotspot detection system and method

• US 20080176515A1
• Filed: 01/19/2007
• Published: 07/24/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 01/19/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (HP Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (HP Inc.)
• Inventors: Hiles, Paul E.
• Application Number:
  US11/655,473
• Publication Number:
  US 20080176515A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/41.2
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/3215 Monitoring of peripheral devices

Abstract

A wireless hotspot detection system comprises a hotspot detection module configured to detect a wireless hotspot and activate a wireless module in response to the detection of the wireless hotspot.

Claims

1. A wireless hotspot detection system, comprising:

a hotspot detection module configured to detect a wireless hotspot and activate a wireless module in response to the detection of the wireless hotspot.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the hotspot detection module comprises a radio frequency identification (RFID) tag to detect the wireless hotspot.

3. The system of claim 2, wherein the RFID tag is configured to detect the wireless hotspot based on a signal received from a wireless access point RFID transmitter.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the hotspot detection module comprises a RFID tag configured to detect a signal indicative of at least one characteristic of the wireless hotspot.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the hotspot detection module is configured to turn off the radio module in response to detecting an absence of a wireless hotspot.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein the hotspot detection module is configured to automatically configure the radio module in response to receiving access point data associated with the wireless hotspot.

7. The system of claim 1, wherein the hotspot detection module comprises a passive RFID tag for detecting the wireless hotspot.

8. A wireless hotspot detection method, comprising,

automatically turning on a radio module in response to detecting that the electronic device is located within a wireless hotspot.

9. The method of claim 8, further comprising detecting the wireless hotspot using a radio frequency identification (RFID) tag.

10. The method of claim 8, further comprising detecting the wireless hotspot based on receipt by a RFID tag of a signal transmitted from an access point RFID transmitter.

11. The method of claim 8, further comprising detecting a signal indicative of at least one characteristic of the wireless hotspot.

12. The method of claim 8, further comprising automatically turning off the radio module in response to detecting an absence of a wireless hotspot.

13. The method of claim 8, further comprising automatically configuring the radio module in response to receiving access point data associated with the wireless hotspot.

14. A wireless hotspot detection system, comprising:

means for automatically turning on a radio module means in response to detecting that the electronic means is located within a wireless hotspot.

15. The system of claim 14, further comprising a radio frequency identification (RFID) means for detecting the wireless hotspot.

16. The system of claim 14, further comprising means for receiving a RFID signal from an access point RFID transmitter means.

17. The system of claim 14, further comprising means for automatically turning off the radio module means in response to detecting an absence of a wireless hotspot.