PROXY COMMUNICATION SYSTEM IN BAN ENVIRONMENT AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF

• US 20140315494A1
• Filed: 11/08/2012
• Published: 10/23/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 11/08/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Son, Jae-Seung, Gu, Sun-Gi, Park, Seung-Hoon, Bae, Tae-Han, Won, Eun-Tae
• Granted Patent: US 9,357,339 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/41.2
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/0002 Remote monitoring of patients using telemetry, e.g. transmission of vital signals via a communication network A61B5/07 takes precedence; transmission systems for measured values G08C; transmission H04B; transmission of digital information H04L; wireless communication networks H04W
• CPC Class Codes: G08C 17/02 using a radio link
• CPC Class Codes: G08C 2201/112 Mechanical energy, e.g. vibration, piezoelectric
• CPC Class Codes: G08C 2201/114 Solar power
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/56 Provisioning of proxy services store-and-forward switching systems in data switching networks H04L12/54
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/06 Authentication
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/50 Secure pairing of devices
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/70 Services for machine-to-machine communication [M2M] or machine type communication [MTC]
• 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

Abstract

Disclosed is a control method of a communication system including at least one sensor that a user wears, a wireless communication apparatus and a coordinator. The control method of the communication system includes: in the coordinator, receiving a proxy authority request for proxy with respect to the at least one sensor and the coordinator from the wireless communication apparatus, and granting the proxy authority to the wireless communication apparatus; in the wireless communication apparatus, creating a user identifier corresponding to the user; in the wireless communication apparatus, searching for the at least one sensor that the user wears, and forming a pairing with the at least one found sensor; in the wireless communication apparatus, making a request to the at least one found sensor for association information for the association with the coordinator and the sensor, and receiving the association information; in the wireless communication apparatus, making a request to the coordinator for association proxy for an association between the at least one found sensor and the coordinator, and receiving the association proxy in response to the request; and in the coordinator, requesting data by forming an association with the at least one found sensor, and receiving data corresponding to the data request.

Claims

1. A control method of a communication system including at least one sensor that a user wears, a wireless communication apparatus and a coordinator, the method comprising:

receiving, by the coordinator, a proxy authority request for proxy with respect to the at least one sensor and the coordinator from the wireless communication apparatus, and granting the proxy authority to the wireless communication apparatus;

creating, by the wireless communication apparatus, a user identifier corresponding to the user;

searching, by the wireless communication apparatus, for the at least one sensor that the user wears, and forming a pairing with the at least one found sensor;

making, by the wireless communication apparatus, a request to the at least one found sensor for association information for the association with the coordinator and the sensor, and receiving the association information;

making, by the wireless communication apparatus, a request to the coordinator for an association proxy for the association between the at least one found sensor and the coordinator, and receiving the association proxy in response to the request; and

requesting, by the coordinator, data by forming association with the at least one found sensor, and receiving data corresponding to the data request.

2. The method as claimed in claim 1, further comprising, after the receiving the association information, transmitting, by the wireless communication apparatus, the user identifier to the at least one found sensor.

3. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein, in the creating the user identifier, the user identifier is created on the basis of an external input for the user identifier.

4. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein, in creating the user identifier, the user identifier is created on the basis of a RF signal received from an RF signal generating means located around the user.

5. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein, in the forming of the pairing, the pairing is formed on the basis of the near-field communication (NFC) technique.

6. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein, in the forming of the pairing, when the type of communication technique that the at least one found sensor uses is identical, the pairing with respect to each of the at least one found sensor is formed sequentially.

7. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the association information comprises at least one of an identifier of the sensor and information on the sensor.

8. The method as claimed in claim 7, wherein the information on the sensor is at least one of the serial number, the form, and the battery type of the sensor.

9. The method as claimed in claim 7, wherein if the coordinator includes the database with the information on the sensor, the association information comprises the identifier of the sensor.

10. The method as claimed in claim 7, wherein if the coordinator does not include the database with the information on the sensor, the making a request for the association proxy further comprises, in the coordinator, constructing an identifier list database of the sensor on the basis of the user identifier.

11. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein, in the forming of the pairing with the at least one found sensor, the pairing is formed with respect to only some of the found sensors.

12. The method as claimed in claim 11, wherein the some of the sensors are selected on the basis of an external input signal.

13. The method as claimed in claim 11, wherein the some of the sensors are selected on the basis of the intensity of signal received from the found sensors.

14. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the association proxy comprises at least one of an identifier of the wireless communication apparatus, the user identifier, and information of each of the found sensors.

15. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein, in the making a request for the proxy authority, the wireless communication apparatus transmits an identifier of the wireless communication apparatus together.

16. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein, in the making a request for the association information, the wireless communication apparatus additionally transmits information on the coordinator.

17. The method as claimed in claim 16, wherein the information on the coordinator is information on the address where the data received from the at least one found sensor is stored.

18. A communication system including at least one sensor that a user wears, a wireless communication apparatus and a coordinator,

the coordinator comprising:

a first communication unit that receives a proxy authority request data for proxy with respect to the at least one sensor and the coordinator from the wireless communication apparatus; and

a first controller that controls the first communication unit to transmit the proxy authority in response to the proxy authority request,

the wireless communication apparatus comprising;

a second communication unit that receives the proxy authority; and

a second controller that creates a user identifier corresponding to the user and controls the second communication unit to search for the at least one sensor that the user wears to form a pairing with the at least one found sensor, and

the at least one sensor comprising;

a third communication unit that receives an association information request for the association with the coordinator and the sensor from the wireless communication apparatus; and

a third controller that controls the third communication unit to transmit the association information to the wireless communication apparatus in response to the request,

wherein the second controller controls the second communication unit to make a request to the coordinator for the association proxy for the association between the at least one found sensor and the coordinator, and

the second communication unit receives the association proxy corresponding to the request, and

the first controller controls the first communication unit to form association with the at least one found sensor and to request data, and

the third controller controls the third communication unit to transmit the data corresponding to the data request.

19. The communication system as claimed in claim 18, wherein each of the at least one found sensor further comprises a storage unit that stores the user identifier, and the second controller controls the second communication unit to transmit the user identifier to the at least one found sensor.

20. The communication system as claimed in claim 18, wherein the second controller creates the user identifier on the basis of an external input for the user identifier.

21. The communication system as claimed in claim 18, wherein the second controller creates the user identifier on the basis of a RF signal received from an RF signal generating means located around the user.

22. The communication system as claimed in claim 18, wherein the second controller controls the second communication unit to form the pairing on the basis of the near-field communication (NFC) technique.

23. The communication system as claimed in claim 18, wherein, when the type of communication technique that the at least one found sensor uses is identical, the second controller controls the second communication unit to sequentially form the pairing with respect to each of the at least one found sensor.

24. The communication system as claimed in claim 18, wherein the association information comprises at least one of an identifier of the sensor and information on the sensor.

25. The communication system as claimed in claim 24, wherein the information on the sensor is at least one of the serial number, the type, and the battery type of the sensor.

26. The communication system as claimed in claim 24, wherein if the coordinator includes the database with the information on the sensor, the association information comprises the identifier of the sensor.

27. The communication system as claimed in claim 24, wherein if the coordinator does not include the database about the information of the sensor, the first controller constructs an identifier list database of the sensor on the basis of the user identifier.

28. The communication system as claimed in claim 18, wherein the second controller controls the second communication unit to form the pairing with respect to only some of the found sensors.

29. The communication system as claimed in claim 28, wherein the second controller selects the some of the sensors on the basis of an external input signal.

30. The communication system as claimed in claim 28, wherein the second controller selects the some of the sensors on the basis of the intensity of signal received from the found sensors.

31. The communication system as claimed in claim 18, wherein the association proxy comprises at least one of an identifier of the wireless communication apparatus, the user identifier, and information on each of the found sensors.

32. The communication system as claimed in claim 18, wherein the second controller controls the second communication unit to transmit an identifier of the wireless communication apparatus together with the proxy authority request data.

33. The communication system as claimed in claim 18, wherein the second controller controls the second communication unit to additionally transmit information of the coordinator together with the association information.

34. The communication system as claimed in claim 33, wherein the information on the coordinator is information on the address where the data received from the at least one found sensor is stored.

35. The communication system as claimed in claim 18, wherein the third controller converts the third communication unit from the disabled state to the enabled state on the basis of the association information received from the wireless communication apparatus.