DEVICE NETWORK SHARING METHOD AND DEVICE CONTROLLING METHOD THEREOF

• US 20130191883A1
• Filed: 12/30/2012
• Published: 07/25/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 01/20/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Tien-Chun Tung
• Original Assignee: Tien-Chun Tung
• Inventors: Tung, Tien-Chun
• Application Number:
  US13/731,021
• Publication Number:
  US 20130191883A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 726/4
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/0876 based on the identity of the terminal or configuration, e.g. MAC address, hardware or software configuration or device fingerprint
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/10 for controlling access to devices or network resources
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/0431 Key distribution or pre-distribution; Key agreement
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/08 Access security
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/77 Graphical identity
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 84/12 WLAN [Wireless Local Area Networks]

Abstract

A device network sharing method and a device controlling method for sharing and controlling a device with a hardware identifier in a network structure system by connecting the device to the network structure system, letting the device log in a server by the hardware identifier of the device, and completing a verification of the device and announcing connection information of the device in the network structure system. Therefore, a client can complete networking settings of the device without complex networking setting steps. A user can use a controller to log in the server by the hardware identifier of the device, and then acquire connection information of the device, for setting or sharing the device. Thus, a client can search a device desired to be controlled in the network structure system without inputting the URL network address which cannot represent device properties.

Claims

1. A device network sharing method for sharing a device with a hardware identifier in a network structure system, including the steps as following:

providing a server which records a hardware identifier and an APP ID which have been authorized;

connecting said device to said network structure system;

letting said device log in said server with said hardware identifier and said APP ID of said device;

verifying whether said hardware identifier and said APP ID of said device have been authorized by said server or not, if no, then said server interrupts the log-in of said device;

if yes, then connection information of said device is announced in said network structure system;

providing a controller which is capable of connecting to said network structure system;

letting said controller log in said server by entering the hardware identifier of the device desired to be controlled in said controller;

verifying whether said APP ID of said controller and said hardware identifier which is entered in said controller have been authorized by said server or not;

if no, then interrupting the log-in of said controller by said server;

if yes, then proceeding with the next step;

letting said controller search whether there is a device which utilizes said hardware identifier to log in and announce the connection information in said network structure system, if no, then a prompt message is issued by said controller;

if yes, then acquiring the connection information of said device by said controller;

letting said controller connect to said device desired to be controlled by the connection information which is acquired, to set an Account ID and/or an APP Resource of said device;

after completing the setting of said device, letting said device log in said server with the Account ID being set and the APP ID of said device, after the log-in of said device, the Account ID and the connection information of said device is announced in said network structure system to allow locating of said device in said network structure system.

2. The device network sharing method of claim 1, wherein further announcing the APP ID and/or the APP Resource of said device in said network structure system after said device logs in said server.

3. The device network sharing method of claim 1, wherein said Account ID can be assigned by a client with a controller, used to apply a registration in said server and assigned to said device, said Account ID further has a password for verifying an identity, said APP ID is pre-registered for said device by an administrator of said server to define an application procedure or a device type of said device, said APP Resource is related to said APP ID, assigned by the client to define a name or a number which meets an use situation, a purpose or a feature of said device according to said APP ID.

4. The device network sharing method of claim 3, wherein said controller can log in with the Account ID owned by said device, and connect to said device and acquire an administrator identity, to set a list of Account IDs which have the right to use and/or control said device, and record the list being set in said device and/or said server.

5. The device network sharing method of claim 1, wherein, said device will perform a test to check whether said Account ID is legal or not, after said device is powered-on;

if yes, then said device connects to said network structure system and logs in said server with said Account ID being set and said APP ID of said device registered in said server, and announces said connection information in said network structure system;

if no, said device connects said network structure system and logs in said server with said hardware identifier of said device and said APP ID registered in said server, and announces said connection information in said network structure system.

6. The device network sharing method of claim 1, wherein the steps with which said controller sets said device for said device to be connected to said network structure system include:

switching said device to a Wireless Access Point mode (AP mode), a Wi-Fi Direction Connection mode (Wi-Fi Direct mode) or a Peer to Peer Connection mode (Ad-Hoc mode), and defining a Wireless SSID Connection name of said device by using said hardware identifier of said device as a predetermined naming rule;

switching said controller to a wireless networking mode, entering said hardware identifier of said device in said controller for said controller to search said Wireless SSID Connection name of said device according to said predetermined naming rule;

connecting said controller to said device with said Wireless SSID Connection name which is searched out, to set a connection method necessary for said device be connected to a wide area network; and

switching said device to a client mode for connecting said device to said wide area network and said network structure system and letting said device log in said server through said connection method being set.

7. The device network sharing method of claim 1, wherein the steps with which said controller sets said device for said device to be connected to said network structure system include:

switching said device to a Wireless Access Point mode (AP mode), a Wi-Fi Direction Connection mode (Wi-Fi Direct mode) or a Peer to Peer Connection mode (Ad-Hoc mode), and defining a Wireless SSID Connection name of said device by using the hardware identifier of said device as a predetermined naming rule;

searching all of the Wireless SSID Connection names which meet the predetermined naming rule in a wireless network by using said controller;

using said controller to search out said Wireless SSID Connection name which is defined by the hardware identifier of said device;

connecting said controller to said device, to set a connection method necessary for said device to connect to a wide area network; and

switching said device to a client mode for said device connecting to said wide area network and said network structure system and letting said device log in said server through said connection method being set.

8. The device network sharing method of claim 1, wherein, said hardware identifier is a MAC (Media Access Control) address or a hardware number of a chip.

9. The device network sharing method of claim 1, further includes the following steps:

representing the hardware identifier of said device as a two-dimensional bar code;

scanning the two-dimensional bar code of said device to acquire the hardware identifier of said device by said controller; and

connecting said controller to said network structure system and letting said controller log in said server with said acquired hardware identifier of said device;

acquiring the connection information of said device announced in said network structure system with the acquired hardware identifier of said device; and

connecting said controller to said device.

10. The device network sharing method of claim 1, further includes the following steps:

representing the Account ID and/or the APP Resource of said device being set as a two-dimensional bar code;

scanning the two-dimensional bar code of said device to acquire information of the Account ID and/or the APP Resource of said device being set by said controller; and

connecting said controller to said network structure system and letting said controller log in said server;

using the scanned information to acquire the connection information of said device announced in said network structure system with the acquired information of said device; and

connecting said controller to said device.

11. A device controlling method adapted to the device network sharing method of claim 4, wherein, including the steps of:

connecting said controller to said network structure system, and using a first Account ID to let said controller log in said server;

letting said controller search whether there is a device which logins and announces a second Account ID, the APP ID and/or the APP Resource of the device desired to be controlled or not in the network structure system;

if no, then a prompt message is issued by said controller;

if yes, then said controller provides device information which meet the searching condition for the client to select the device desired to be controlled;

acquiring the connection information of the selected device desired to be controlled in said network structure system by said controller and connecting said controller to said device; and

verifying whether said first Account ID with which said controller logs in said server has been authorized by said device or not, if no, then said device interrupts the connection of said controller;

if yes, then said controller controls said device according to an authorized control authority of said first Account ID.

12. The device network controlling method of claim 1, wherein, if the first Account ID with which said controller logs in said server is the same as the second Account ID owned by the device desired to be controlled, then said controller acquires the administrator identity of said device, and said controller will be authorized by the device to fully control the device.