WIRELESS NETWORK CONNECTION CONTROLLING METHOD USING DEVICE IMPACT, APPLICATION PROGRAM CONTROLLING METHOD, AND DEVICES THEREOF

• US 20120140676A1
• Filed: 03/23/2010
• Published: 06/07/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 04/21/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung SDS (China) Co., Ltd. (Samsung Group)
• Original Assignee: Samsung SDS (China) Co., Ltd. (Samsung Group)
• Inventors: Kim, Jin Young, Chang, Jin Yeop, Yoon, Hyo Jin, Lee, Won-Il, Lee, Chung Hyeok
• Granted Patent: US 9,313,314 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 370/254
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1694 the I/O peripheral being a single or a set of motion sensors for pointer control or gesture input obtained by sensing movements of the portable computer
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2200/1636 Sensing arrangement for detection of a tap gesture on the housing
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/04 Network management architectures or arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/12 Discovery or management of network topologies
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72412 using two-way short-range wireless interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/12 including a sensor for measuring a physical value, e.g. temperature or motion telephones including GPS signal receivers H04M2250/10
• CPC Class Codes: H04Q 1/00 Details of selecting apparatus or arrangements

Abstract

Wireless network connection control method of performing control for establishing and releasing wireless network connection with another device when impacts are applied to devices, application program control method of performing control for setting and executing application program when impacts are applied to devices, and device including wireless network connection control function and application program control function which use a device impact are disclosed. According to the present invention, provided is a wireless network connection control method of a device using a device impact, including generating a corresponding impact event when physical impact applied from the outside is sensed, transceiving a search message between devices based on a time at which the impact event occurred, searching for another device in which the impact event has occurred at the same time, and performing a predetermined protocol with a corresponding device according to a search result and establishing an inter-device wireless network connection.

Claims

1. A wireless network connection control method of a device using physical impact, comprising:

generating a corresponding impact event when an impact applied from the outside is detected;

transceiving a search message between devices based on the time at which the physical impact occurred and searching for other devices in which the impact event has occurred at the same time; and

performing a predetermined protocol with corresponding devices according to the search result and establishing an inter-device wireless network connection.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the impact event is generated when a sensed impact value exceeds a predetermined threshold.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the time at which the impact event occurred included in the search message is represented by a timer driving count value of the device.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the time at which the impact event occurred included in the search message is represented by an absolute time.

5. The method of claim 3, wherein the searching for the devices performs searching for another device during a time period corresponding to a device search error allowable range value obtained by setting an error range value of a time driving clock of the device in proportion to the time elapsed since the impact event.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

in the case where the result of the device search depicted above finds no devices, creating a special pre-defined connection with another device if an additional impact event occurs within a certain time interval from the time at which the impact event occurred.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

generating a wireless network connection release impact event when the impact applied from the outside is sensed in a state in which a wireless network is connected between devices;

upon generating the wireless connecting release impact event, transceiving search messages with other devices and finding devices which have generated the impact events at the same time as the release impact event; and

performing a predetermined protocol with a corresponding device when a device found as the search result is a device that is already connected and releasing the inter-device wireless network connection.

8. The method of claim 1, further comprising providing a user with the content of the process of establishing the wireless network connection, the content of the process of establishing the wireless network connection in the special relation, or the content of the process of releasing the wireless network connection, wherein advanced settings or function change settings are performed by the user'"'"'s selection.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein when a device having no impact sensor receives a device search message on the occurrence of an impact event from another device having an impact sensor, the content of the received device search message is provided to a user via a user interface, and the wireless network connection is established or released between the devices by the user'"'"'s selection.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein the searching for the other device includes transmitting a search message including a time at which the impact event occurred and a group ID to another device.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein the search message includes encryption information using the time at which the impact event occurred as a seed, encryption information using the group ID as a seed, and encryption information using a time at which the impact event occurred and the group ID as a seed.

12. The method of claim 1, wherein the user can control additional settings regarding the wireless connection, such as the frequency of data transmissions, by varying the number of impact events.

13. The method of claim 1, wherein an inter-device wireless network connection relation is set based on a comparison of movement values of the devices before or after the impact event has occurred or based on motion values of the devices before or after the impact event has occurred.

14. The method of claim 1, wherein an inter-device wireless network connection relation is set based on voice values (or acoustic values) of the devices before or after the impact event has occurred.

15. The method of claim 1, wherein the generation of the impact events is suppressed when a certain wireless network connection control lock is set.

30. A computer readable recording medium recording a program for executing the method of claim 1.

16. An application program control method of a device using a physical impact, comprising:

generating a corresponding impact event when the physical impact applied from the outside is detected in a state in which a wireless network is connected between devices;

transceiving a search message between the devices based on the time at which the impact event occurred and searching for other device in which the impact event occurred at the same time; and

transferring the search result to an application program and thus executing certain functions provided by the application program and changing certain settings.

17. The method of claim 16, further comprising executing a previously defined special function upon an impact event occurring within a certain time from the time at which the impact event occurred when the search for the other devices finds no other devices.

18. The method of claim 16, wherein the generating of the impact event includes generating a corresponding impact event when the sensed impact value exceeds a predetermined threshold.

19. The method of claim 16, wherein the time at which the impact event occurred included in the search message is represented by a timer driving count value of the device.

20. The method of claim 16, wherein the time at which the impact. event occurred included in the search message is represented by an absolute time.

21. The method of claim 19, wherein the searching for the devices performs searching for another device during a time period corresponding to a device search error allowable range value obtained by setting an error range value of a time driving clock of the device in proportion to the time elapsed since the impact event.

22. The method of claim 16, comprising providing a user with the content of the process of performing execution of an application program function and changing of settings or the content of the process of executing a pre-defined special function, wherein further advanced settings or function change settings may be performed by the user.

23. The method of claim 16, wherein when a device having no impact sensor receives a device search message on the occurrence of an impact event from another device, the content of the received device search message is provided to the user via a user interface, and the execution of an application program function between the devices and changing of settings or execution of the previously defined special function are performed by the user'"'"'s selection.

24. The method of claim 16, wherein the searching for other devices includes transmitting a search message including a time at which the impact event occurred and a group ID.

25. The method of claim 24, wherein the search message includes encryption information using the time at which the impact event occurred as a seed, encryption information using the group ID as a seed, and encryption information using the time at which the impact event occurred and the group ID as a seed.

26. The method of claim 16, wherein the user can control additional setting regarding the wireless connection by varying the number of impact events.

27. The method of claim 16, wherein an inter-device wireless network connection relation is set based on a comparison of movement values of the devices before or after the impact event has occurred or based on motion values of the devices before or after the impact event has occurred.

28. The method of claim 16, wherein an inter-device wireless network connection relation is set based on voice values (or acoustic values) of the devices before or after the impact event has occurred.

29. The method of claim 16, wherein the generation of the impact event is suppressed when a certain connection control lock is set in the application program.

36. A computer readable recording medium recording a program for executing the method of claim 16.

31. A device with close-range wireless communication functionality such as Wireless Personal Area Network (WPAN) or Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) comprising:

a sensor that measures physical impact received by the device; and

a control unit that, when an impact exceeding a predetermined threshold is detected by the sensor, establishes a wireless network connection with corresponding devices by transceiving a search message between devices through the wireless communication unit based on the time at which the impact event occurred and searching for other devices in which the impact event occurred at the same time, that can control wireless network connections via physical impact.

32. The device of claim 31, further comprising a timer that counts the time at which the impact event occurred,

wherein the control unit transmits the search message to another device to search for the other device and includes a count value acquired by the timer in the search message as the time at which the impact event occurred.

33. The device of claim 31, further comprising an absolute time acquisition unit that acquires the current time,

wherein the control unit transmits the search message to another device to search for the other device and includes the absolute time at which the impact event occurred acquired by the absolute time acquisition unit, in the search message.

34. The device of claim 31, wherein the control unit has the following additional function:

when the impact sensor senses an impact value exceeding the predetermined threshold in a state in which a wireless network is already connected between devices, a wireless network connection releasing impact event is generated, a search message is transceived between the devices through a wireless communication unit based on the time at which the wireless network connection releasing impact event occurred, and the connections to the devices in which an impact event has occurred at the same time are terminated.

35. The device of claim 31, wherein when the impact sensor senses an impact value exceeding the predetermined threshold value in a state in which a wireless network is already connected between the devices, the control unit changes settings of a corresponding function provided by a corresponding application program or executes the corresponding function between corresponding devices by generating an application program control impact event, by transceiving a search message between the devices through a wireless communication unit based on a time at which the application program control impact event occurred, and searching for another device in which the impact event has occurred at the same time.