WIRELESS COMMUNICATION TERMINAL

• US 20120227090A1
• Filed: 02/21/2012
• Published: 09/06/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 03/02/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Olympus Corporation
• Original Assignee: Olympus Corporation
• Inventors: Shibuya, Kazuyuki
• Application Number:
  US13/400,832
• Publication Number:
  US 20120227090A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 726/4
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/08 for authentication of entities cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for entity authentication H04L9/32
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/06 Authentication
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/50 Secure pairing of devices

Abstract

A wireless communication terminal may include a trigger receiving unit that receives a trigger for starting first setup process in a state in which the wireless communication terminal does not participate in wireless network, a transmitting unit that transmits an acquisition request of setup information representing a participation setup process performed by another wireless communication terminal after receiving the trigger, a receiving unit that receives a response including the setup information transmitted from the other wireless communication terminal receiving the acquisition request, and a control unit that performs control such that the transmitting unit transmits error information representing that wireless communication terminals performing the first setup process are detected to the wireless communication terminals, and performs control such that the participation setup process performed by its own wireless communication terminal is set as second setup process when responses including the setup information representing the first setup process are received.

Claims

1. A wireless communication terminal, wherein a process, in which an authentication identifier necessary for participating in a wireless network is a fixed value, is set as a first setup process, and a process, in which the authentication identifier is variable, is set as a second setup process in a participation setup process, which a non-participating wireless communication terminal, which does not participate in the wireless network, performs with a wireless communication terminal, which is participating in the wireless network, in order to participate in the wireless network, the wireless communication terminal comprising:

a trigger receiving unit that receives a trigger for starting the first setup process in a state in which the wireless communication terminal does not participate in the wireless network;

a transmitting unit that transmits an acquisition request of setup information representing a participation setup process performed by another wireless communication terminal after receiving the trigger;

a receiving unit that receives a response including the setup information transmitted from the other wireless communication terminal that has received the acquisition request; and

a control unit that performs control such that the transmitting unit transmits error information representing that a plurality of wireless communication terminals performing the first setup process are detected to the plurality of wireless communication terminals, and performs control such that the participation setup process performed by its own wireless communication terminal is set as the second setup process when responses including the setup information representing the first setup process are received from the plurality of wireless communication terminals.

2. The wireless communication terminal according to claim 1, wherein, when a response is received from at least one of the plurality of wireless communication terminals in response to the error information transmitted by the transmitting unit, the control unit performs control such that the transmitting unit transmits start information representing a start of the second setup process to a wireless communication terminal that has transmitted the response to the error information.

3. A wireless communication terminal, wherein a process, in which an authentication identifier necessary for participating in a wireless network is a fixed value, is set as a first setup process, and a process, in which the authentication identifier is not a fixed value, is set as a second setup process in a participation setup process, which a non-participating wireless communication terminal, which does not participate in the wireless network, performs with a wireless communication terminal, which is participating in the wireless network, in order to participate in the wireless network, the wireless communication terminal comprising:

a trigger receiving unit that receives a trigger for starting the first setup process in a state in which the wireless communication terminal is participating in the wireless network;

a receiving unit that receives an acquisition request of setup information representing a participation setup process performed by another wireless communication terminal from the non-participating wireless communication terminal after receiving the trigger;

a transmitting unit that transmits a response including the setup information representing the first setup process to the non-participating wireless communication terminal when the acquisition request is received; and

a control unit that performs control such that the participation setup process performed by its own wireless communication terminal is set as the second setup process when the receiving unit receives error information representing that a plurality of wireless communication terminals performing the first setup process are detected in a state in which the wireless communication terminal is not executing the first setup process with any of wireless communication terminals that do not participate in the wireless network.

4. The wireless communication terminal according to claim 3, wherein the control unit performs control of waiting for a start of the second setup process until the receiving unit receives start information representing a start of the second setup process from a wireless communication terminal that is a transmission source of the error information.