METHOD OF NOTIFYING FUNCTION IDENTIFICATION INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION SYSTEM

• US 20130128817A1
• Filed: 01/17/2013
• Published: 05/23/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 03/28/2002
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: 2BCom LLC (Markman Advisors LLC)
• Original Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Inventors: ADACHI, Tomoko, Horisaki, Koji, Sato, Kazumi, Toshimitsu, Kiyoshi, Namekata, Minoru
• Granted Patent: US 9,806,981 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 370/328
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 45/00 Routing or path finding of packets in data switching networks routing or path finding in wireless networks H04W40/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/24 Negotiation of communication capabilities
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 9/40 Network security protocols
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 68/00 User notification, e.g. alerting and paging, for incoming communication, change of service or the like
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/26 Network addressing or numbering for mobility support
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/02 Terminal devices
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 92/18 between terminal devices

Abstract

There is disclosed a notification method in a communication system of notifying specific multifunctionality information between terminal stations. An expansion code is generated from both a user input code and a function identification code corresponding to a specific function. A transmission frame including the expansion code is also generated and transmitted to at least one of the terminal stations.

Claims

1. A terminal station, comprising:

a transmitter that transmits a first management frame including a Service Set Identifier (SSID), the SSID including a function identification code indicating that a function corresponding to the function identification code is used by the terminal station.

2. The terminal station according to claim 1, wherein the SSID consists of characters.

3. The terminal station according to claim 1, wherein the function identification code is disposed in a lead portion of the SSID.

4. The terminal station according to claim 1, wherein the SSID is set by a user.

5. The terminal station according to claim 1, further comprising:

a receiver that receives a second management frame sent in response to the first management frame; and

circuitry configured to determine whether the function can be used based on the second management frame.

6. The terminal station according to claim 5, wherein the first management frame is a probe request frame.

7. The terminal station according to claim 5, wherein the second management frame is a probe response frame.

8. The terminal station according to claim 5, wherein the function is used for communication with another terminal station that is a transmission source of the second management frame after an association process is completed with the another terminal station.

9. The terminal station according to claim 1, further comprising:

an antenna configured to transmit the first management frame.

10. A terminal station, comprising:

a receiver that receives a first management frame including a Service Set Identifier (SSID), the SSID including a function identification code indicating that a function corresponding to the function identification code is used by another terminal station that transmitted the first management frame.

11. The terminal station according to claim 10, wherein the SSID consists of characters.

12. The terminal station according to claim 10, wherein the function identification code is disposed in a lead portion of the SSID.

13. The terminal station according to claim 10, further comprising:

a transmitter that transmits a second management frame in response to the first management frame, the second management frame generated based on a content of the first management frame.

14. The terminal station according to claim 13, wherein the first management frame is a probe request frame.

15. The terminal station according to claim 13, wherein the second management frame is a probe response frame.

16. The terminal station according to claim 13, wherein the function is used for communication with another terminal station that is a transmission source of the first management frame after an association process is completed with the another terminal station.

17. The terminal station according to claim 10, further comprising:

an antenna configured to receive the first management frame.

18. A communication method, comprising:

transmitting, by a transmitter of a terminal station, a first management frame including a Service Set Identifier (SSID), the SSID including a function identification code indicating that a function corresponding to the function identification code is used by the terminal station.

19. A communication method, comprising:

receiving, by a receiver of a terminal station, a first management frame including a Service Set Identifier (SSID), the SSID including a function identification code indicating that a function corresponding to the function identification code is used by a terminal station that transmitted the first management frame.