METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DEVICE CONFIGURING

• US 20090224894A1
• Filed: 02/27/2009
• Published: 09/10/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 08/31/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. (Huawei Investment & Holding Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. (Huawei Investment & Holding Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: YANG, Hongwen
• Application Number:
  US12/394,635
• Publication Number:
  US 20090224894A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 340/10.510
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0806 for initial configuration or provisioning, e.g. plug-and-play
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0866 Checking the configuration
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/125 involving control of end-device applications over a network
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/245 from a network towards a terminal

Abstract

A method for configuring a device includes: receiving and demodulating, by an RF processing module, an RF signal comprising configuration data, and storing the configuration data demodulated; reading, by the device to be configured, the configuration data stored in the RF processing module and processing according to the configuration data. An apparatus and system for configuring a device is further disclosed. When configuring devices according to the present invention, it is not necessary to power on the device and not necessary to establish a physical connection between a computer and a device by the user, that is, it is not necessary to contact the device, which makes it possible to configure a packed device without unpacking, and thus the efficiency of configuring the device can be improved.

Claims

1. A method for configuring a device comprising:

receiving and demodulating, by an RF processing module, an RF signal comprising configuration data, storing the demodulated configuration data; and

reading, by a device to be configured, the demodulated configuration data stored in the RF processing module and processing in accordance with the demodulated configuration data.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

before receiving the RF signal by the RF processing module, obtaining, by an RF read-write device, the configuration data from a data configuration server and modulating the configuration data on the RF signal for transmission.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the obtaining the configuration data from the data configuration server by the RF read-write device comprises:

obtaining, by the RF read-write device, another RF signal transmitted by the RF processing module and demodulating a device identification of the device to be configured from the another RF signal; and

obtaining, by the RF read-write device, the configuration data which matches the device identification from the data configuration server, according to the device identification of the device to be configured.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the method further comprises:

before receiving the RF signal by the RF processing module, electromagnetically inducing a current in an RF antenna of the RF processing module by an external alternating magnetic field to supply power to an RF intelligent control module of the RF processing module.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the receiving and demodulating the RF signal comprising configuration data and storing the configuration data demodulated by the RF processing module comprises:

receiving, by the RF antenna of the RF processing module, the RF signal transmitted by the RF read-write device; and

demodulating, by the intelligent control module of the RF processing module, the configuration data of the RF signal and writing the demodulated configuration data in an internal memory of the RF processing module.

6. The method of claim 5, further comprising:

before receiving and demodulating the RF signal comprising the configuration data by the RF processing module, checking, by the intelligent control module of the RF processing module, whether the RF read-write device has a permission to operate the device to be configured by means of a password; and

performing the subsequent steps if the RF read-write device has a permission to operate the device to be configured;

ending the method if the RF read-write device does not have a permission to operate the device to be configured.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the reading the configuration data stored in the RF processing module by the device to be configured comprises:

obtaining, by a processor of the device to be configured, the configuration data from the internal memory of the RF processing module, when the device to be configured is powered on.

8. A system for configuring a device, comprising a device to be configured, wherein the system further comprises:

an RF read-write device adapted to modulate configuration data of the device to be configured on an RF signal and transmit the modulated RF signal; and

an RF processing module adapted to receive the RF signal transmitted by the RF read-write device and demodulate the configuration data of the device to be configured from the RF signal received;

wherein the device to be configured is adapted to read the configuration data from the RF processing module for processing.

9. The system of claim 8, further comprising:

a data configuration server adapted to store the configuration data of the device to be configured;

wherein the RF read-write device is further adapted to obtain the configuration data of the device to be configured from the data configuration server.

10. The system of claim 8, wherein:

the RF read-write device is further adapted to generate an alternating magnetic field; and

the RF processing module is powered by an induced current generated inside the RF processing module influenced by the alternating magnetic field generated in the RF read-write device.

11. An apparatus for configuring a device comprising:

an RF antenna, an RF intelligent control module and an internal memory;

wherein;

the RF antenna is adapted to receive an RF signal comprising configuration data of a device to be configured;

the RF intelligent control module is adapted to demodulate the RF signal comprising the configuration data which is received by the RF antenna, and store the demodulated configuration data in the internal memory; and

the internal memory is adapted to store the configuration data demodulated by the RF intelligent control module.

12. The apparatus of claim 11, wherein the RF antenna is further adapted to generate an induced current influenced by an alternating magnetic field to supply the induced current to the RF intelligent control module.

13. The apparatus of claim 11, wherein the apparatus is an RF processing intelligent card connected to the device to be configured via a slot and an interface circuit.