SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING LONG-DISTANCE END-POINT TERMINAL IN CPNS ENVIRONMENT, AND CPNS SERVER AND MOBILE COMMUNICATION TERMINAL FOR THE SAME

• US 20110207403A1
• Filed: 06/16/2009
• Published: 08/25/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 11/06/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: SK Planet Co., Ltd. (SK Telecom Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: SK Telecom Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: Lee, Jeong Hoon, Kim, In Hwan, You, Jeong Min
• Application Number:
  US13/127,916
• Publication Number:
  US 20110207403A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/41.1
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/06 Authentication
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/20 Services signaling; Auxiliary data signalling, i.e. transmitting data via a non-traffic channel

Abstract

The present invention relates to a system and a method for long-distance control of an end-point terminal in a CPNS environment, and a CPNS server and a mobile communication terminal for the same. When receiving a request for information from the end-point terminal the CPNS server[:] performs an authentication procedure for receiving the information from the end-point terminal to the mobile communication terminal and requests and receives the information from the end-point terminal for providing the mobile communication terminal with the information. The mobile communication terminal: requests and receives the information from the end-point terminal through the CPNS server, and controls the operation of the corresponding end-point terminal by transceiving the information with the end-point terminal through the CPNS server.

Claims

1. A system for controlling an end-point terminal placed at a long distance in a CPNS (Converged Personal Network Service) environment, the system comprising:

a CPNS server for, when a request for information about an end-point terminal, transmitting and receiving information to and from the other mobile communication terminal over a near field radio communication network, from a mobile communication terminal, performing a certification procedure of checking whether the mobile communication terminal can receive the information of the end-point terminal, searching for the other mobile communication terminal associated with the end-point terminal, requesting the information of the end-point terminal from the other mobile communication terminal, receiving the information of the end-point terminal from the other mobile communication terminal, and providing the received information to the mobile communication terminal; and

the mobile communication terminal for requesting, from the CPNS server, the information of the end-point terminal placed in an area other than its own near field radio communication area, receiving the information of the end-point terminal from the CPNS server, and controlling an operation of the end-point terminal by transmitting and receiving information to and from the end-point terminal through the CPNS server.

2. The system according to claim 1, wherein the CPNS server previously stores pieces of terminal information about the end-point terminal and the other mobile communication terminal.

3. The system according to claim 1, wherein the mobile communication terminal has transmitted and received information to and from the end-point terminal, associated with the other mobile communication terminal more than once and stores and manages its own mobile ID and an ID of the end-point terminal and relevant information which are matched.

4. The system according to claim 1, wherein the end-point terminal has transmitted and received information to and from the mobile communication terminal more than once and stores and manages mobile IDs of the mobile communication terminal and the other mobile communication terminal and relevant information which are matched.

5. A CPNS server for providing information about an end-point terminal, performing near field radio communication with the other mobile communication terminal, to a specific mobile communication terminal placed at a long distance, the server comprising:

a communication interface unit for performing communication over a mobile communication network;

an end-point terminal information request reception unit for receiving, from the mobile communication terminal, a request for the information of the end-point terminal, associated with the other mobile communication terminal and configured to perform near field radio communication with the other mobile communication terminal;

a certification processing unit for checking whether the mobile communication terminal is eligible to request the information of the end-point terminal;

an end-point terminal search unit for, if the mobile communication terminal is certified by the certification processing unit, searching for the other mobile communication terminal associated with the end-point terminal based on the end-point terminal;

an information request and providing unit for requesting the information of the end-point terminal from the other mobile communication terminal, receiving the requested information from the other mobile communication terminal, and providing the received information to the mobile communication terminal which has requested the information of the end-point terminal; and

database for storing information about the CPNS server, including terminal information about the end-point terminal and the other mobile communication terminal.

6. The CPNS server according to claim 5, wherein when control request information including content selection information for the end-point terminal is received from the mobile communication terminal, the information request and providing unit transmits reply information, corresponding to the request, to the mobile communication terminal.

7. The CPNS server according to claim 5, further comprising a mobile communication terminal information management unit for registering information about the mobile communication terminal transmitting and receiving information to and from the end-point terminal over a near field radio communication network, including a mobile ID, with the database and for managing the registered information.

8. The CPNS server according to claim 5, further comprising an end-point terminal information management unit for storing the information of the end-point terminal, including specification information of the end-point terminal transmitting and receiving information to and from the mobile communication terminal over the near field radio communication network, in the database and for managing the stored information.

9. A mobile communication terminal connected to a CPNS server and configured to control an end-point terminal, associated with the other mobile communication terminal, at a long distance, the mobile communication terminal comprising:

a wireless communication unit for performing wireless communication over a near field radio communication network or a mobile communication network;

an end-point terminal information request unit for requesting, from the CPNS server, information about the end-point terminal, performing near field radio communication with the other mobile communication terminal; and

an end-point terminal control unit for performing service control, including a content request, service start and end for the end-point terminal, based on the information of the end-point terminal received from the CPNS server.

10. The mobile communication terminal according to claim 9, further comprising a billing information providing unit for providing its own billing-related information to the CPNS server so that billing for the end-point terminal is charged to the mobile communication terminal.

11. The mobile communication terminal according to claim 9, further comprising an end-point terminal information management unit for providing the information of the end-point terminal, received from the CPNS server, to an end-point terminal placed at a short distance and configured to directly perform near field radio communication with the mobile communication terminal so that the end-point terminal placed at a short distance can control the end-point terminal placed at a long distance.

12. A method of a CPNS server providing information about an end-point terminal placed at a long distance at a request of a mobile communication terminal in order to control the end-point terminal in a CPNS environment, the method comprising the steps of:

(a) receiving, from the mobile communication terminal, a request for the information of the end-point terminal transmitting and receiving information to and from the other mobile communication terminal over a near field radio communication network;

(b) performing a certification procedure of checking whether the mobile communication terminal which has requested the information at the step (a) is eligible to be provided with the information of the end-point terminal;

(c) if, as a result of the check at the step (b), the mobile communication terminal is eligible to be provided with the information of the end-point terminal, searching for the other mobile communication terminal associated with the end-point terminal, requesting the information of the end-point terminal from the other mobile communication terminal, and receiving the information of the end-point terminal from the other mobile communication terminal; and

(d) providing the mobile communication terminal with the information of the end-point terminal received at the step (c).

13. The method according to claim 12, further comprising the step of, when control request information including content selection information for the end-point terminal is received from the mobile communication terminal, providing reply information corresponding to the request, after the step (d).

14. The method according to claim 12, further comprising, before the step (a), the step of registering pieces of information about the mobile communication terminal and the end-point terminal, including a mobile ID of the mobile communication terminal transmitting and receiving information to and from the end-point terminal over the near field radio communication network and an ID and specification of the end-point terminal.

15. A method of a mobile communication terminal connected to a CPNS server and configured to control an end-point terminal, placed at a long distance associated with the other mobile communication terminal, in a CPNS environment, the method comprising the steps of:

(a) requesting, from the CPNS server, information about the end-point terminal performing near field radio communication with the other mobile communication terminal;

(b) performing service control, including a content request and a start and end of service for the end-point terminal, based on the information of the end-point terminal received from the CPNS server; and

(c) providing its own billing-related information to the CPNS server so that billing for the end-point terminal is charged to the mobile communication terminal.

16. The method according to claim 15, further comprising, after the step (b), the step of providing the information of the end-point terminal, received from the CPNS server, to an end-point terminal placed at a short distance and configured to directly perform near field radio communication with the mobile communication terminal so that the end-point terminal placed at a short distance can control the end-point terminal placed at a long distance.