METHOD AND SYSTEM OF PROVIDING INTERNET PROTOCOL (IP) DATA COMMUNICATION IN A NFC PEER TO PEER COMMUNICATION ENVIRONMENT

• US 20130322296A1
• Filed: 02/17/2012
• Published: 12/05/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 02/19/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Arunan, Thenmozhi, Won, Eun-Tae, Badvel, Jayabharath Reddy, Kota, Venkata subba reddy
• Granted Patent: US 9,325,382 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 370/254
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 5/48 Transceivers
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 5/72 for local intradevice communication
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 61/50 Address allocation
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 61/5038 for local use, e.g. in LAN or USB networks, or in a controller area network [CAN]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/12 specially adapted for proprietary or special-purpose networking environments, e.g. medical networks, sensor networks, networks in vehicles or remote metering networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/34 involving the movement of software or configuration parameters network booting or remote initial program loading [RIPL] G06F9/4416
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/80 Services using short range communication, e.g. near-field communication [NFC], radio-frequency identification [RFID] or low energy communication
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 76/14 Direct-mode setup

Abstract

The present invention provides a method and system of providing Internet Protocol data communication in a NFC peer-to-peer mode communication environment, wherein a NFC peer to peer link is established between an initiator NFC device and a target NFC device, a first configuration frame containing IP configuration parameters associated with the initiator NFC device is transmitted to the target NFC device via a NFC interface, a second configuration frame containing IP configuration parameters associated with the target NFC device is received from the target NFC device via the NFC interface in response to the first configuration frame, and an IP communication is set up with the target NFC device over the NFC interface based on the IP configuration parameters associated with the target NFC device and IP data is exchanged with the target NFC device over the NFC interface in a NFC peer to peer mode.

Claims

1. A method of providing Internet Protocol (IP) data communication in a near field communication (NFC) peer to peer communication environment, comprising:

establishing a NFC peer to peer link between an initiator NFC device and a target NFC device;

transmitting a first configuration frame containing IP configuration parameters associated with the initiator NFC device to the target NFC device via a NFC interface;

receiving a second configuration frame containing IP configuration parameters associated with the target NFC device via the NFC interface in response to the first configuration frame;

setting up an IP communication with the target NFC device over the NFC interface based on the IP configuration parameters associated with the target NFC device; and

exchanging IP data with the target NFC device over the NFC interface in a NFC peer to peer mode upon successfully setting up the IP communication.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the IP configuration parameters associated with the initiator NFC device comprise a configuration frame type, an IP address associated with the initiator NFC device, a role associated with the initiator NFC device, and a network interface type supported by the initiator NFC device.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the IP configuration parameters associated with the target NFC device comprise a configuration frame type, an IP address associated with the target NFC device, a role associated with the target NFC device, and a network interface type supported by the target NFC device.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein exchanging the IP data with the target NFC device over the NFC interface upon successfully setting up the IP communication comprises:

transmitting at least one IP data packet containing IP data to the target NFC device over the NFC interface in the NFC peer-to-peer mode using the IP configuration parameters associated with the target NFC device.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein transmitting the at least one IP data packet containing the IP data to the target NFC device over the NFC interface in the NFC peer-to-peer mode comprises:

receiving a request to provide access to a global network from the target NFC device;

fetching IP data from the global network based on the request received from the target NFC device; and

transmitting at least one IP data packet containing the fetched IP data to the target NFC device over the NFC interface in the NFC peer-to-peer mode.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein exchanging the IP data with the target NFC device over the NFC interface upon successfully setting up the IP communication comprises:

receiving at least one IP data packet containing IP data from the target NFC device over the NFC interface.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein receiving the at least one IP data packet containing the IP data from the target NFC device over the NFC interface in the NFC peer-to-peer mode comprises:

determining whether the target NFC device is connected to a global network based on the IP configuration parameters associated with the target NFC device;

sending a request to provide access to the global network to the target NFC device if the target NFC device is connected to the global network; and

receiving at least one IP data packet containing IP data from the target NFC device over the NFC interface.

11. The method of claim 1, wherein setting up the IP communication with the target NFC device over the NFC interface based on the IP configuration parameters associated with the target NFC device comprises:

dynamically generating an ARP table based on the IP configuration parameters in the second configuration frame.

12. The method of claim 1, wherein setting up the IP communication with the target NFC device over the NFC interface based on the IP configuration parameters associated with the target NFC device comprises:

dynamically resolving duplicate addresses based on the IP configuration parameters in the second configuration frame.

4-5. -5. (canceled)

10. (canceled)

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25. A target near field communication (NFC) device configured to provide Internet Protocol (IP) data communication in a NFC peer to peer communication environment, the target NFC device comprising:

a transceiver;

a memory; and

a processor;

wherein the processor is configured for;

establishing a NFC peer to peer link with a target NFC device;

transmitting a first configuration frame containing IP configuration parameters to the target NFC device via the transceiver;

receiving a second configuration frame containing IP configuration parameters associated with the target NFC device via the transceiver in response to the first configuration frame;

setting up an IP communication with the target NFC device over the transceiver based on the IP configuration parameters associated with the target NFC device; and

exchanging IP data with the target NFC device over the transceiver in a NFC peer to peer mode upon successfully setting up the IP communication.

26. The target NFC device of claim 25, wherein IP configuration parameters comprise a configuration frame type, an IP address, a role, and a network interface type.

27. The target NFC device of claim 26, wherein the role is selected from the group consisting of an Adhoc, and device with wider network connectivity.

28. The target NFC device of claim 26, wherein the IP address comprises one of an IPV4 address and IPv6 address.

35. The target NFC device of claim 25, wherein the IP configuration parameters associated with the initiator NFC device comprise a configuration frame type, an IP address associated with the initiator NFC device, a role associated with the initiator NFC device, and a network interface type supported by the initiator NFC device.

36. The target NFC device of claim 35, wherein the IP configuration parameters associated with the target NFC device comprise a configuration frame type, an IP address associated with the target NFC device, a role associated with the target NFC device, and a network interface type supported by the target NFC device.

37. The target NFC device of claim 25, wherein the processor transmits at least one IP data packet containing IP data to the initiator NFC device over the transceiver in the NFC peer-to-peer mode using the IP configuration parameters associated with the initiator NFC device.

38. The target NFC device of claim 37, wherein the processor is configured to:

receive a request to provide access to a global network from the initiator NFC device;

fetch IP data from the global network based on the request received from the initiator NFC device; and

transmit at least one IP data packet containing the fetched IP data to the initiator NFC device over the transceiver in the NFC peer-to-peer mode.

39. The target NFC device of claim 25, wherein the processor is configured to:

determine whether the initiator NFC device is connected to a global network based on the IP configuration parameters associated with the initiator NFC device;

send a request to provide access to the global network to the initiator NFC device if the initiator NFC device is connected to the global network; and

receive at least one IP data packet containing IP data from the initiator NFC device over the transceiver.

40. The target NFC device of claim 25, wherein the processor dynamically generates an ARP table based on the IP configuration parameters in the first configuration frame.

41. The target NFC device of claim 25, wherein the processor dynamically resolves duplicate addresses based on the IP configuration parameters in the first configuration frame.

29-34. -34. (canceled)