WIRELESS TERMINAL APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND CONTROL METHOD OF WIRELESS TERMINAL APPARATUS

• US 20130288750A1
• Filed: 01/06/2012
• Published: 10/31/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 01/14/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Itoh, Katsutoshi, Naito, Masahiko
• Application Number:
  US13/978,075
• Publication Number:
  US 20130288750A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/558
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/2856 Access arrangements, e.g. Internet access asynchronous transfer mode networks H04L12/5601; broadband local area networks H04L12/2801; optical access or distribution networks H04Q11/0067; access to open networks H04L12/5691; digital subscriber line end-user equipment and bit-level processing of data on a PSTN-based network H04M11/00; home network gateways H04L12/2834; wireless access networks H04W
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/06 Authentication
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/08 Access security
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/43 using shared identity modules, e.g. SIM sharing
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 28/18 Negotiating wireless communication parameters
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 74/00 Wireless channel access
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/20 Transfer of user or subscriber data
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/22 Processing or transfer of terminal data, e.g. status or physical capabilities

Abstract

A wireless terminal apparatus including a receiving unit that receives setting information to share a right of network connection to connect to a predetermined network via a wireless line with one or a plurality of other wireless terminal apparatuses, and a control unit that sets the right of network connection based on the setting information.

Claims

1-19. -19. (canceled)

20. A wireless terminal apparatus, comprising:

a receiving unit that receives setting information to share a right of network connection to connect to a predetermined network via a wireless line with one or a plurality of other wireless terminal apparatuses; and

a control unit that sets the right of network connection based on the setting information.

21. The wireless terminal apparatus according to claim 20,

wherein the right of network connection is a right to allow a plurality of network connected states in which service contents provided via the network after connection to the network is established are mutually different, and

wherein the setting information is information to set the right of network connection that causes the wireless terminal apparatus to enter at least one network connected state of the plurality of network connected states.

22. The wireless terminal apparatus according to claim 21,

wherein the plurality of networks includes a first network and a second network,

wherein the control unit is a first control unit connected to the first network, and

wherein the setting information is transmitted by a second control unit connected to the second network.

23. The wireless terminal apparatus according to claim 21, wherein the plurality of network connected states includes a first network connected state to change the right of network connection and a second network connected state in which provision of a desired service can be received via the network after the connection to the network is established.

24. The wireless terminal apparatus according to claim 23,

wherein one wireless terminal apparatus constituting the wireless terminal apparatus and the one or the plurality of other wireless terminal apparatuses is caused to enter the first network connected state or the second network connected state, and

wherein the wireless terminal apparatuses other than the one wireless terminal apparatus of wireless terminal apparatuses each constituting the wireless terminal apparatus and the one or the plurality of other wireless terminal apparatuses are caused to enter only the first network connected state.

25. The wireless terminal apparatus according to claim 22,

wherein the first network connected state is a state to connect to a first network, and

wherein the second network connected state is a state to connect to a network different from the first network.

26. The wireless terminal apparatus according to claim 22, wherein if a connection based on the second network connected state is established when rewrite information is transmitted to an information processing apparatus that rewrites a content of a database based on the rewrite information after the rewrite information based on a user operation is received by including the database that manages the right of network connection, and that associates and holds each of wireless terminal apparatuses constituting the wireless terminal apparatus and the one or the plurality of other wireless terminal apparatuses with a type of the right of network connection set to each of the wireless terminal apparatuses, the control unit exercises control to transmit the rewrite information after a reconnection based on the first network connected state is established.

27. The wireless terminal apparatus according to claim 20,

wherein the right of network connection includes a plurality of rights of network connection whose service contents provided via the network after the connection to the network is established are mutually different, and

wherein the control unit sets at least one right of network connection of the plurality of rights of network connection based on the setting information.

28. The wireless terminal apparatus according to claim 27,

wherein the receiving unit receives database information containing the content of the database from the information processing apparatus, and

wherein the control unit exercises control to cause a display unit to display the content of the database based on the received database information and to transmit the rewrite information based on a user operation to rewrite the content of the database displayed in the display unit to the information processing apparatus.

29. The wireless terminal apparatus according to claim 27,

wherein the plurality of rights of network connection include a first right of network connection to change the right of network connection and a second right of network connection with which provision of a desired service can be received via the network after the connection to the network is established.

30. An information processing apparatus, comprising:

a database that manages a right of network connection as a right to connect to a predetermined network via a wireless line set to a plurality of wireless terminal apparatuses sharing the right of network connection to allow a plurality of network connected states having mutually different service contents provided via the network after connection to the network is established, and that associates and holds each of the plurality of wireless terminal apparatuses with a type of a network connected state of each of the wireless terminal apparatuses; and

a control unit that exercises control to rewrite a content of the database based on rewrite information when the rewrite information based on a user operation is received and to set the right of network connection to at least one of the plurality of wireless terminal apparatuses so as to conform to the content after being rewritten.

31. The information processing apparatus according to claim 30,

wherein the database holds identification information to identify the plurality of wireless terminal apparatuses by associating the information with each of the wireless terminal apparatuses, and

wherein the control unit exercises, when an acquisition request of the identification information based on a user operation is received, control to transmit the identification information based on the acquisition request to the wireless terminal apparatus related to the acquisition request.

32. The information processing apparatus according to claim 30, wherein the database holds information about a network control apparatus connected to each of the plurality of wireless terminal apparatuses by associating the information with each of the wireless terminal apparatuses.

33. The information processing apparatus according to claim 30, wherein the database contains at least one of IMEI as identification information to identify the plurality of wireless terminal apparatuses, IMSI as identification information to identify contract authentication information related to the right of network connection, a name as identification information to identify the plurality of wireless terminal apparatuses and set by a user operation, identification information to identify a wireless terminal apparatus in a specific state in which provision of a desired service can be received via the network from the plurality of wireless terminal apparatuses, and identification information to identify the wireless terminal apparatus to which a specific right of network connection capable of receiving provision of a desired service via the network is set from the plurality of wireless terminal apparatuses.

34. The information processing apparatus according to claim 30, wherein the control unit exercises control to set whether to execute a wireless connection service to each of the plurality of wireless terminal apparatuses based on the content of the database.

35. An information processing apparatus, comprising:

a database that manages a plurality of rights of network connection as rights to connect to a predetermined network via a wireless line set to a plurality of wireless terminal apparatuses sharing the rights of network connection having mutually different service contents provided via the network after connection to the network is established, and that associates and holds each of the plurality of wireless terminal apparatuses with a type of a right of network connection of each of the wireless terminal apparatuses; and

a control unit that exercises control to rewrite a content of the database based on rewrite information when the rewrite information based on a user operation is received and to set the right of network connection to at least one of the plurality of wireless terminal apparatuses so as to conform to the content after being rewritten.

36. A communication system that shares a right of network connection to connect to a predetermined network via a wireless line among a plurality of wireless terminal apparatuses.

37. The communication system according to claim 36,

wherein the right of network connection includes a plurality of rights of network connection having mutually different service contents provided via the network after connection to the network is established,

wherein the communication system further comprises an information processing apparatus including a database that manages the rights of network connection set to the plurality of wireless terminal apparatuses and associates and holds each of the plurality of wireless terminal apparatuses with a type of the network connection right set to each of the wireless terminal apparatuses, and a control unit that exercises control to rewrite a content of the database based on rewrite information when the rewrite information based on a user operation is received and to set the right of network connection to at least one of the plurality of wireless terminal apparatuses so as to conform to the content after being rewritten, and

wherein each of the plurality of wireless terminal apparatuses sets the right of network connection based on control of the information processing apparatus.

38. A control method of a wireless terminal apparatus, comprising:

receiving setting information to share a right of network connection to connect to a predetermined network via a wireless line with one or a plurality of other wireless terminal apparatuses; and

setting the right of network connection based on the setting information.