METHOD FOR INTERCONNECTING MOBILE COMMUNICATION TERMINALS IN AD-HOC NETWORK

• US 20120106429A1
• Filed: 11/09/2011
• Published: 05/03/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 02/10/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Borqs Wireless Limited
• Original Assignee: Beijing Borqs Software Technology Co., Ltd. (Borqs Technologies, Inc.)
• Inventors: HONG, Mingsong, Li, Hui
• Application Number:
  US13/292,934
• Publication Number:
  US 20120106429A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 370/312
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 48/10 using broadcasted information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/18 Processing of user or subscriber data, e.g. subscribed services, user preferences or user profiles; Transfer of user or subscriber data
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 84/18 Self-organising networks, e.g. ad-hoc networks or sensor networks

Abstract

A method for interconnecting mobile communication terminals in an AD-HOC network, comprising generating, by each mobile communication terminal, a broadcast or multicast message comprising a source IP address in the AD-HOC network and a unique identifier corresponding to a mobile communication terminal, and broadcasting or multicasting the message in the AD-HOC network, receiving, by a first mobile communication terminal, the above messages and extracting and saving source IP addresses and unique identifiers contained in the broadcast or multicast messages, generating, by the first mobile communication terminal, an information correspondence list comprising extracted and saved source IP addresses and unique identifiers, and selecting, by a first mobile communication terminal user, a unique identifier from the information corresponding list, and interconnecting with the corresponding mobile communication terminal.

Claims

1. A method for interconnecting mobile communication terminals in an AD-HOC network, the method comprising:

generating, by a first mobile communication terminal comprising electronic hardware, a first message comprising a first source IP address in the AD-HOC network and a first unique identifier corresponding to the first mobile communication terminal;

transmitting the first message from the first mobile communication terminal over the AD-HOC network, thereby enabling other mobile communication terminals to identify the first mobile communication terminal by the first unique identifier;

receiving, at the first mobile communication terminal, a second message from a second mobile communication terminal in the AD-HOC network;

extracting a second source IP address and a second unique identifier contained in the second message, the second unique identifier being configured to uniquely identify the second mobile communication terminal;

generating, at the first mobile communication terminal, an information corresponding list that associates the second source IP address and the second unique identifier; and

establishing, by the first mobile communication terminal, a connection with the second mobile communication terminal in response to a selection of the second unique identifier from the information corresponding list by a user of the first mobile communication terminal.

2. The method for interconnecting mobile communication terminals in an AD-HOC network according to claim 1, wherein, the second unique identifier comprises one or more of the following:

a Subscriber Identity Module card number or a user-defined unique name.

3. The method for interconnecting mobile communication terminals in an AD-HOC network according to claim 1, wherein the information corresponding list includes Subscriber Identity Module card numbers and source IP addresses.

4. The method for interconnection mobile communication terminals in an AD-HOC network according to claim 1, wherein the information corresponding list includes names in an address book, Subscriber Identity Module card numbers, and source IP addresses.

5. The method for interconnecting mobile communication terminals in an AD-HOC network according to claim 4, further comprising:

identifying, by the first mobile communication terminal, a selection by the first mobile communication terminal user of a name in the address book or a Subscriber Identity Module card number in the information corresponding list;

transforming, at the first mobile communication terminal, the name in the address book or the Subscriber Identity Module card number into the second source IP address; and

establishing, by the first mobile communication terminal, a connection with the second mobile communication terminal associated with the second source IP address.

6. The method for interconnecting mobile communication terminals in an AD-HOC network according to claim 1, wherein the information corresponding list is updated dynamically by the first mobile communication terminal.

7. The method for interconnecting mobile communication terminals in an AD-HOC network according to claim 1, wherein said transmitting the message from the first mobile communication terminal comprises broadcasting the message from the first mobile communication terminal.

8. The method for interconnecting mobile communication terminals in an AD-HOC network according to claim 1, wherein said transmitting the message from the first mobile communication terminal comprises multicasting the message from the first mobile communication terminal.