INFORMATION-PROCESSING DEVICE, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING INFORMATION-PROCESSING DEVICE, CONTROL TARGET DEVICE, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING CONTROL TARGET DEVICE, SERVER, METHOD FOR CONTROLLING SERVER, PAIRING SYSTEM, CONTROL PROGRAM, AND STORAGE MEDIUM

• US 20140195011A1
• Filed: 04/25/2013
• Published: 07/10/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 05/21/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: Sakuta, Makoto, Yoshimoto, Yoshiharu, Chiba, Masahiro, Hashiura, Masaki
• Application Number:
  US14/000,776
• Publication Number:
  US 20140195011A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 700/11
• CPC Class Codes: A47L 2201/04 Automatic control of the travelling movement; Automatic obstacle detection
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 15/02 electric
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2221/2121 Chip on media, e.g. a disk or tape with a chip embedded in its case
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2221/2153 Using hardware token as a secondary aspect
• CPC Class Codes: G08C 17/00 Arrangements for transmitting signals characterised by the use of a wireless electrical link
• CPC Class Codes: G08C 2201/20 Binding and programming of remote control devices
• CPC Class Codes: G08C 2201/42 Transmitting or receiving remote control signals via a network
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/18 using different networks or channels, e.g. using out of band channels cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for key distribution involving distinctive intermediate devices or communication paths H04L9/0827; cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for authentication using a plurality of channels H04L9/3215
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/06 Authentication

Abstract

A smart phone includes (i) a list obtaining section for obtaining a connectable device list for specifying a self-propelled cleaner which (a) have authenticated, as an indoor pairing, a communication connection which allows the self-propelled cleaner to be controlled by using a communication via a LAN and therefore (b) can authenticate, as an outdoor pairing, a communication connection which allows the self-propelled cleaner to be controlled by using a communication via a WAN and (ii) a transmitting section which transmits a connection request to a control target device, which has been selected by a user from the connectable device list, so as to establish the outdoor pairing with the self-propelled cleaner.

Claims

1. An information-processing device which communicates with a control target device via a network so as to control the control target device, said information-processing device comprising:

obtaining means for obtaining specification information for specifying a control target device which (i) have authenticated, as a first communication connection, a communication connection which allows the control target device to be controlled by using a communication via a first network and therefore (ii) is ready to authenticate, as a second communication connection, a communication connection which allows the control target device to be controlled by using a communication via a second network that is different from the first network; and

first transmitting means for transmitting a connection request to a control target device, which has been selected by a user based on specification information obtained by the obtaining means, so as to establish the second communication connection with the control target device.

2. An information-processing device as set forth in claim 1, further comprising:

first judging means for judging whether or not the control target device, which communicates with said information-processing device via the first network, has authenticated the first communication connection,

the obtaining means obtaining the specification information for specifying the control target device which has been determined, by the first judging means, to have authenticated the first communication connection.

3. An information-processing device as set forth in claim 1, further comprising:

first receiving means for receiving communication information from a server, the communication information being used to identify a communication,

the first transmitting means transmitting a connection request to the control target device by using the communication which is identified based on the communication information received by the first receiving means.

4. The information-processing device as set forth in claim 1, wherein:

in a case where the second communication connection has been authenticated by a control target device which has been selected by the user based on the specification information, the first transmitting means transmits, to the control target device, confirmation information for confirming that the control target device has become ready to be controlled by using the second communication connection.

8. A pairing system comprising an information-processing device recited in claim 1.

13. A control program for operating an information-processing device recited in claim 1, the control program causing a computer to serve as the means of the information-processing device.

15. A computer-readable storage medium in which a control program recited in claim 13 is stored.

5. A control target device which communicates with an information-processing device via a network so as to be controlled by the information-processing device, said control target device comprising:

second judging means for judging, when a response is requested from the information-processing device which communicates with said control target device via a first network, whether or not the information-processing device establishes a communication connection which (i) allows said control target device to be controlled by using a communication via the first network and (ii) has been authenticated as a first communication connection;

second transmitting means for transmitting device information for identifying said control target device to the information-processing device in a case where the second judging means has determined that the information-processing device establishes the communication connection which has been authenticated; and

third transmitting means for transmitting, to a server, authentication information which indicates that a second communication connection has been authenticated, the third transmitting means transmitting the authentication information in a case where a connection request for the second communication connection, which allows said control target device to be controlled by using a communication via a second network that is different from the first network, is received from the information-processing device as a response to the device information which has been transmitted from the second transmitting means.

6. A control target device as set forth in claim 5, further comprising:

collating means for judging, in a case where device information and the connection request for the second communication connection are received from the information-processing device, whether or not the device information is identical to device information which has been transmitted by the second transmitting means,

the third transmitting means transmitting the authentication information to the server in a case where the pieces of device information have been determined to be identical to each other by the collating means.

14. A control program for operating a control target device recited in claim 5, the control program causing a computer to serve as the means of the control target device.

16. A computer-readable storage medium in which a control program recited in claim 14 is stored.

17. A pairing system comprising a control target device recited in claim 5.

7. A server comprising:

storing means for causing a storage section to store connection information, which indicates that a second communication connection has been established between an information-processing device and a control target device, in a case where said server has received, from the control target device, authentication information which indicates that the second communication connection, which allows the control target device to be controlled by the information-processing device by using a communication via a second network, has been authenticated by the control target device.

18. A pairing system comprising a server recited in claim 7.

9. A method for controlling an information-processing device which communicates with a control target device via a network so as to control the control target device, said method comprising the steps of:

obtaining specification information for specifying a control target device which (i) has authenticated, as a first communication connection, a communication connection which allows the control target device to be controlled by using a communication via a first network and therefore (ii) is ready to authenticate, as a second communication connection, a communication connection which allows the control target device to be controlled by using a communication via a second network that is different from the first network; and

transmitting a connection request to a control target device, which has been selected by a user based on specification information obtained in the obtaining step, so as to establish the second communication connection with the control target device.

10. A method as set forth in claim 9, further comprising the step of:

judging whether or not the control target device, which communicates via the first network, has authenticated the first communication connection,

in the obtaining step, specification information for specifying a control target device, which has been determined in the judging step to have authenticated the first communication connection, being obtained.

11. A method for controlling a control target device which communicates with an information-processing device via a network so as to be controlled by the information-processing device, said method comprising the steps of:

judging, when a response is requested from the information-processing device which communicates with the control target device via a first network, whether or not the information-processing device establishes a communication connection which (i) allows the control target device to be controlled by using a communication via the first network and (ii) has been authenticated as a first communication connection;

transmitting device information for identifying the control target device to the information-processing device in a case where the information-processing device has been determined in the judging step to establish the communication connection which has been authenticated; and

transmitting, to a server, authentication information which indicates that a second communication connection has been authenticated, the authentication information being transmitted in a case where a connection request for the second communication connection, which allows the control target device to be controlled by using a communication via a second network that is different from the first network, is received from the information-processing device as a response to the device information which has been transmitted in the step of transmitting device information.

12. A method for controlling a server, said method comprising the step of:

causing a storage section to store connection information, which indicates that a second communication connection has been established between an information-processing device and a control target device, in a case where authentication information has been received from the control target device, the authentication information indicating that the second communication connection, which allows the control target device to be controlled by the information-processing device by using a communication via a second network, has been authenticated by the control target device.