APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PERFORMING WIRELESS DOCKING OPERATION IN COMMUNICATION SYSTEM SUPPORTING UNIVERSAL PLUG AND PLAY PROTOCOL

• US 20140351478A1
• Filed: 05/23/2014
• Published: 11/27/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 05/23/2013
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: LEE, Jong-Hyo, SRINIVASA GOPALAN, Karthik, VEDULA, Kiran Bharadwaj, KIM, Jun-Hyung
• Application Number:
  US14/286,374
• Publication Number:
  US 20140351478A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 710/303
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1632 External expansion units, e.g. docking stations
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0886 Fully automatic configuration
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/12 Discovery or management of network topologies
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/08 User group management

Abstract

A method for performing a wireless docking operation in a Wireless Dockee (WD) in a communication system is provided. The method including transmitting, to a Wireless Docking Center (WDC), a get peripheral information action message requesting peripheral information for at least one peripheral of the WD; and receiving, from the WDC, a get peripheral information action response message including the peripheral information for the at least one peripheral of the WD.

Claims

1. A method for performing a wireless docking operation in a Wireless Dockee (WD) in a communication system, the method comprising:

transmitting, to a Wireless Docking Center (WDC), a get peripheral information action message requesting peripheral information for at least one peripheral of the WD; and

receiving, from the WDC, a get peripheral information action response message including the peripheral information for the at least one peripheral of the WD.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein, if the get peripheral information action message includes one peripheral IDentifier (ID), the get peripheral information action response message includes peripheral information for a peripheral corresponding to the one peripheral ID, and

wherein, if the get peripheral information action message includes more than two peripheral IDs, the get peripheral information action response message includes peripheral information for peripherals corresponding to the more than two peripheral IDs.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the peripheral information includes Peripheral Function (PF) information including a Medium Access Control (MAC) address and an Internet Protocol (IP) address of a related peripheral.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the communication system supports a Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) protocol.

5. A method for performing a wireless docking operation in a Wireless Docking Center (WDC) in a communication system, the method comprising:

receiving, from a Wireless Dockee (WD), a get peripheral information action message requesting peripheral information for at least one peripheral of the WD; and

transmitting, to the WD, a get peripheral information action response message including the peripheral information for the at least one peripheral of the WD.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein, if the get peripheral information action message includes one peripheral IDentifier (ID), the get peripheral information action response message includes peripheral information for a peripheral corresponding to the one peripheral ID, and

wherein, if the get peripheral information action message includes more than two peripheral IDs, the get peripheral information action response message includes peripheral information for peripherals corresponding to the more than two peripheral IDs.

7. The method of claim 5, wherein the peripheral information includes Peripheral Function (PF) information including a Medium Access Control (MAC) address and an Internet Protocol (IP) address of a related peripheral.

8. The method of claim 5, wherein the communication system supports a Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) protocol.

9. A method for performing a wireless docking operation in a Wireless Dockee (WD) in a communication system, the method comprising:

transmitting, to a Wireless Docking Center (WDC), a get Wireless Docking Environment (WDN) information action message requesting WDN information for at least one WDN of the WD); and

receiving, from the WDC, a get WDN information action response message including the WDN information for the at least one WDN of the WD.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein, if the get WDN information action message includes one WDN IDentifier (ID), the WDN peripheral information action response message includes WDN information for a WDN corresponding to the one WDN ID, and

wherein, if the get WDN information action message includes more than two WDN IDs, the get WDN information action response message includes WDN information for WDNs corresponding to the more than two WDN IDs.

11. The method of claim 9, wherein the communication system supports a Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) protocol.

12. A method for performing a wireless docking operation in a Wireless Docking Center (WDC) in a communication system, the method comprising:

receiving, from a Wireless Dockee (WD), a get Wireless Docking Environment (WDN) information action message requesting WDN information for at least one WDN of the WD); and

transmitting, to the WD, a get WDN information action response message including the WDN information for the at least one WDN of the WD.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein, if the get WDN information action message includes one WDN IDentifier (ID), the WDN peripheral information action response message includes WDN information for a WDN corresponding to the one WDN ID, and

wherein, if the get WDN information action message includes more than two WDN IDs, the get WDN information action response message includes WDN information for WDNs corresponding to the more than two WDN IDs.

14. The method of claim 12, wherein the communication system supports a Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) protocol.

15. A method for performing a wireless docking operation in a Wireless Dockee (WD) in a communication system, the method comprising:

transmitting, to a Wireless Docking Center (WDC), a docking action message requesting Peripheral Function (PF) information for at least one peripheral of the WD which the WD will select; and

receiving, from the WDC, a docking action response message including the PF information for the at least one peripheral of the WD.

16. The method of claim 15, wherein the PF information includes a Medium Access Control (MAC) address and an Internet Protocol (IP) address of a related peripheral.

17. The method of claim 15, wherein the communication system supports a Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) protocol.

18. A method for performing a wireless docking operation in a Wireless Docking Center (WDC) in a communication system, the method comprising:

receiving, from a Wireless Dockee (WD), a docking action message requesting Peripheral Function (PF) information for at least one peripheral of the WD, which the WD will select; and

transmitting, to the WD, a docking action response message including the PF information for the at least one peripheral of the WD.

19. The method of claim 18, wherein the PF information includes a Medium Access Control (MAC) address and an Internet Protocol (IP) address of a related peripheral.

20. The method of claim 18, wherein the communication system supports a Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) protocol.

21. A method for performing a wireless docking operation in a Wireless Dockee (WD) in a communication system, the method comprising:

transmitting, to a Wireless Docking Center (WDC), a docking action message requesting Wireless Docking Environment (WDN) information for at least one WDN of the WD, which the WD will select; and

receiving, from the WDC, a docking action response message including the WDN information for the at least one WDN of the WD.

22. The method of claim 21, wherein the communication system supports a Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) protocol.

23. A method for performing a wireless docking operation in a Wireless Docking Center (WDC) in a communication system, the method comprising:

receiving, from a Wireless Dockee (WD), a docking action message requesting Wireless Docking Environment (WDN) information for at least one WDN of the WD, which the WD will select; and

transmitting, to the WD, a docking action response message including the WDN information for the at least one WDN of the WD to the WD.

24. The method of claim 23, wherein the communication system supports a Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) protocol.

25. A method for performing a wireless docking operation in a Wireless Dockee (WD) in a communication system, the method comprising:

transmitting, to a Wireless Docking Center (WDC), an undock action message requesting to undock the WD from all peripherals to which the WD is docked; and

receiving, from the WDC, an undock action response message indicating that the WD has been undocked from the peripherals.

26. The method of claim 25, wherein the undock action message and the undock action response message include a docking session IDentifier (ID) of a docking session which is established between the WD and the WDC.

27. The method of claim 25, wherein the communication system supports a Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) protocol.

28. A method for performing a wireless docking operation in a Wireless Docking Center (WDC) in a communication system, the method comprising:

receiving, from a Wireless Dockee (WD), an undock action message requesting to undock the WD from all peripherals to which the WD is docked;

undocking the WD in response to the undock action message from the WD; and

transmitting, to the WD an undock action response message indicating that the WD has been undocked from the peripherals.

29. The method of claim 28, wherein the undock action message and the undock action response message include a docking session IDentifier (ID) of a docking session which is established between the WD and the WDC.

30. The method of claim 28, wherein the communication system supports a Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) protocol.

31. A method for performing a wireless docking operation in a Wireless Dockee (WD) in a communication system, the method comprising:

transmitting, to a Wireless Docking Center (WDC), an undock action message requesting to undock the WD from specific peripherals among peripherals to which the WD is docked; and

receiving, from the WDC, an undock action response message indicating that the WD has been undocked from the specific peripherals.

32. The method of claim 31, wherein the undock action message and the undock action response message include peripheral IDentifiers (IDs) of the specific peripherals.

33. The method of claim 31, wherein the communication system supports a Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) protocol.

34. A method for performing a wireless docking operation in a Wireless Docking Center (WDC) in a communication system, the method comprising:

receiving, from the Wireless Dockee (WD), an undock action message requesting to undock specific peripherals among peripherals to which the WD is docked from the WD;

undocking the specific peripherals from the WD in response to the undock action message; and

transmitting, to the WD, an undock action response message indicating that the specific peripherals have been undocked from the WD.

35. The method of claim 34, wherein the undock action message and the undock action response message include peripheral IDentifiers (IDs) of the specific peripherals.

36. The method of claim 34, wherein the communication system supports a Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) protocol.

37. A method for performing a wireless docking operation in a Wireless Dockee (WD) in a communication system, the method comprising:

receiving, from a Wireless Docking Center (WDC), a docking state change parameter which informs of a change for docked states for all WDs that are docked to the WDC.

38. The method of claim 37, wherein the change for the docked states for all the WDs includes a state in which at least one of the WDs is undocked from the WDC.

39. The method of claim 37, wherein the communication system supports a Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) protocol.

40. A method for performing a wireless docking operation in a Wireless Docking Center (WDC) in a communication system, the method comprising:

transmitting, to a Wireless Dockee (WD), a docking state change parameter which informs of a change for docked states for all of WDs which are docked to the WDC.

41. The method of claim 40, wherein the change for the docked states for all of the WDs includes a state in which at least one of all of the WDs is undocked from the WDC.

42. The method of claim 40, wherein the communication system supports a Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) protocol.

43. A method for performing a wireless docking operation in a Wireless Dockee (WD) in a communication system, the method comprising:

receiving, from a Wireless Docking Center (WDC), a list of peripherals which are currently docked to the WDC.

44. The method of claim 43, wherein the communication system supports a Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) protocol.

45. A method for performing a wireless docking operation in a Wireless Docking Center (WDC) in a communication system, the method comprising:

transmitting, to a Wireless Dockee (WD), a list of peripherals which are currently docked to the WDC.

46. The method of claim 45, wherein the communication system supports a Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) protocol.

47. A method for performing a wireless docking operation in a Wireless Dockee (WD) in a communication system, the method comprising:

connecting to a Wireless Docking Center (WDC) using a Near Field Communication (NFC) scheme;

triggering an NFC-Peer to Peer (P2P) connection; and

performing an auto docking process with the WDC, after triggering the NFC-P2P connection.

48. The method of claim 47, further comprising:

performing one of a P2P group negotiation and P2P persistent group process with the WDC after performing the auto docking process with the WDC.

49. The method of claim 48, further comprising:

performing a process which follows Application Service Platform (ASP) sessions setup protocol and a docking management protocol with the WDC after performing the one of P2P group negotiation and P2P persistent group process.

50. A method for performing a wireless docking operation in a Wireless Docking Center (WDC) in a communication system, the method comprising:

connecting to a Wireless Dockee (WD) using a Near Field Communication (NFC) scheme;

triggering a NFC-Peer to Peer (P2P) connection; and

performing an auto docking process with the WD, after triggering the NFC-P2P connection.

51. The method of claim 50, further comprising:

performing one of a P2P group negotiation and P2P persistent group process with the WD after performing the auto docking process with the WD.

52. The method of claim 51, further comprising:

performing a process which follows Application Service Platform (ASP) sessions setup protocol and a docking management protocol with the WD after performing the one of P2P group negotiation and P2P persistent group process.

53. A Wireless Dockee (WD) in a communication system, the WD comprising:

a transmitter configured to transmit, to a Wireless Docking Center (WDC), a get peripheral information action message requesting peripheral information for at least one peripheral of the WD; and

a receiver configured to receive, from the WDC, a get peripheral information action response message including the peripheral information for the at least one peripheral of the WD.

54. The WD of claim 53, wherein, if the get peripheral information action message includes one peripheral IDentifier (ID), the get peripheral information action response message includes peripheral information for a peripheral corresponding to the one peripheral ID, and

wherein, if the get peripheral information action message includes more than two peripheral IDs, the get peripheral information action response message includes peripheral information for peripherals corresponding to the more than two peripheral IDs.

55. The WD of claim 53, wherein the peripheral information includes Peripheral Function (PF) information including a Medium Access Control (MAC) address and an Internet Protocol (IP) address of a related peripheral.

56. The WD of claim 53, wherein the communication system supports a Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) protocol.

57. A Wireless Docking Center (WDC) in a communication system, the WDC comprising:

a receiver configured to receive, from a Wireless Dockee (WD), a get peripheral information action message requesting peripheral information for at least one peripheral of the WD; and

a transmitter configured to transmit, to the WD, a get peripheral information action response message including the peripheral information for the at least one peripheral of the WD.

58. The WDC of claim 57, wherein, if the get peripheral information action message includes one peripheral IDentifier (ID), the get peripheral information action response message includes peripheral information for a peripheral corresponding to the one peripheral ID, and

wherein, if the get peripheral information action message includes more than two peripheral IDs, the get peripheral information action response message includes peripheral information for peripherals corresponding to the more than two peripheral IDs.

59. The WDC of claim 57, wherein the peripheral information includes Peripheral Function (PF) information including a Medium Access Control (MAC) address and an Internet Protocol (IP) address of a related peripheral.

60. The WDC of claim 57, wherein the communication system supports a Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) protocol.

61. A Wireless Dockee (WD) in a communication system, the WD comprising:

a transmitter configured to transmit, to a Wireless Docking Center (WDC), a get Wireless Docking Environment (WDN) information action message requesting WDN information for at least one WDN of the WD; and

a receiver configured to receive, from the WDC, a get WDN information action response message including the WDN information for the at least one WDN of the WD.

62. The WD of claim 61, wherein, if the get WDN information action message includes one WDN IDentifier (ID), the WDN peripheral information action response message includes WDN information for a WDN corresponding to the one WDN ID, and

wherein, if the get WDN information action message includes more than two WDN IDs, the get WDN information action response message includes WDN information for WDNs corresponding to the more than two WDN IDs.

63. The WD of claim 61, wherein the communication system supports a Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) protocol.

64. A Wireless Docking Center (WDC) in a communication system, the WDC comprising:

a receiver configured to receive, from a Wireless Dockee (WD), a get Wireless Docking Environment (WDN) information action message requesting WDN information for at least one WDN of the WD; and

a transmitter configured to transmit, to the WD, a get WDN information action response message including the WDN information for the at least one WDN of the WD.

65. The WDC of claim 64, wherein, if the get WDN information action message includes one WDN IDentifier (ID), the WDN peripheral information action response message includes WDN information for a WDN corresponding to the one WDN ID, and

wherein, if the get WDN information action message includes more than two WDN IDs, the get WDN information action response message includes WDN information for WDNs corresponding to the more than two WDN IDs.

66. The WDC of claim 64, wherein the communication system supports a Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) protocol.

67. A Wireless Dockee (WD) in a communication system, the WD comprising:

a transmitter configured to transmit, to a Wireless Docking Center (WDC), a docking action message requesting Peripheral Function (PF) information for at least one peripheral of the WD, which the WD will select; and

a receiver configured to receive, from the WDC, a docking action response message including the PF information for the at least one peripheral of the WD.

68. The WD of claim 67, wherein the PF information includes a Medium Access Control (MAC) address and an Internet Protocol (IP) address of a related peripheral.

69. The WD of claim 67, wherein the communication system supports a Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) protocol.

70. A Wireless Docking Center (WDC) in a communication system, the WDC comprising:

a receiver configured to receive, from a Wireless Dockee (WD), a docking action message requesting Peripheral Function (PF) information for at least one peripheral of the WD, which the WD will select; and

a transmitter configured to transmit, to the WD, a docking action response message including the PF information for the at least one peripheral of the WD.

71. The WDC of claim 70, wherein the PF information includes a Medium Access Control (MAC) address and an Internet Protocol (IP) address of a related peripheral.

72. The WDC of claim 70, wherein the communication system supports a Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) protocol.

73. A Wireless Dockee (WD) in a communication system, the WD comprising:

a transmitter configured to transmit, to a Wireless Docking Center (WDC), a docking action message requesting Wireless Docking Environment (WDN) information for at least one WDN of the WD, which the WD will select; and

a receiver configured to receive, from the WDC, a docking action response message including the WDN information for the at least one WDN of the WD.

74. The WD of claim 73, wherein the communication system supports a Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) protocol.

75. A Wireless Docking Center (WDC) in a communication system, the WDC comprising:

a receiver configured to receive, from a Wireless Dockee (WD), a docking action message requesting Wireless Docking Environment (WDN) information for at least one WDN of the WD, which the WD will select; and

a transmitter configured to transmit, to the WD, a docking action response message including the WDN information for the at least one WDN of the WD.

76. The WDC of claim 75, wherein the communication system supports a Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) protocol.

77. A Wireless Dockee (WD) in a communication system, the WD comprising:

a transmitter configured to transmit, to a Wireless Docking Center (WDC), an undock action message requesting to undock the WD from all peripherals to which the WD is docked; and

a receiver configured to receive, from the WDC, an undock action response message indicating that the WD has been undocked from the peripherals.

78. The WD of claim 77, wherein the undock action message and the undock action response message include a docking session IDentifier (ID) of a docking session which is established between the WD and the WDC.

79. The WD of claim 77, wherein the communication system supports a Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) protocol.

80. A Wireless Docking Center (WDC) in a communication system, the WDC comprising:

a receiver configured to receive, from a Wireless Dockee (WD), an undock action message requesting to undock the WD from all peripherals to which the WD is docked;

a controller configured to undock the WD in response to the undock action message; and

a transmitter configured to transmit, to the WD, an undock action response message indicating that the WD has been undocked.

81. The WDC of claim 80, wherein the undock action message and the undock action response message include a docking session IDentifier (ID) of a docking session which is established between the WD and the WDC.

82. The WDC of claim 80, wherein the communication system supports a Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) protocol.

83. A Wireless Dockee (WD) in a communication system, the WD comprising:

a transmitter configured to transmit, to a Wireless Docking Center (WDC), an undock action message requesting to undock the WD from specific peripherals among peripherals to which the WD; and

a receiver configured to receive, from the WDC, an undock action response message indicating that the WD has been undocked from the specific peripherals.

84. The WD of claim 83, wherein the undock action message and the undock action response message include peripheral IDentifiers (IDs) of the specific peripherals.

85. The WD of claim 83, wherein the communication system supports a Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) protocol.

86. A Wireless Docking Center (WDC) in a communication system, the WDC comprising:

a receiver configured to receive, from a Wireless Dockee (WD), an undock action message requesting to undock specific peripherals among peripherals to which the WD is docked from the WD;

a controller configured to undock the specific peripherals from the WD in response to the undock action message; and

a transmitter configured to transmit, to the WD, an undock action response message indicating that the specific peripherals have been undocked from the WD.

87. The WDC of claim 86, wherein the undock action message and the undock action response message include peripheral IDentifiers (IDs) of the specific peripherals.

88. The WDC of claim 86, wherein the communication system supports a Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) protocol.

89. A Wireless Dockee (WD) in a communication system, the WD comprising:

a receiver configured to receive, from a Wireless Docking Center (WDC), a docking state change parameter which informs of a change for docked states for all WDs that are docked to the WDC.

90. The WD of claim 89, wherein the change for the docked states for all the WDs includes a situation in which at least one of the WDs is undocked from the WDC.

91. The WD of claim 89, wherein the communication system supports a Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) protocol.

92. A Wireless Docking Center (WDC) in a communication system, the WDC comprising:

a transmitter configured to transmit, to a Wireless Dockee (WD), a docking state change parameter which informs of a change for docked states for all WDs which are docked to the WDC.

93. The WDC of claim 92, wherein the change for the docked states for all the WDs includes a situation in which at least one of the WDs is undocked from the WDC.

94. The WDC of claim 92, wherein the communication system supports a Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) protocol.

95. A Wireless Dockee (WD) in a communication system, the WD comprising:

a receiver configured to receive, from a Wireless Docking Center (WDC), a list of peripherals which are currently docked to the WDC.

96. The WD of claim 95, wherein the communication system supports a Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) protocol.

97. A Wireless Docking Center (WDC) in a communication system, the WDC comprising:

a transmitter configured to transmit, to a Wireless Dockee (WD), a list of peripherals which are currently docked to the WDC.

98. The WDC of claim 97, wherein the communication system supports a Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) protocol.

99. A Wireless Dockee (WD) in a communication system, the WD comprising:

a controller configured to connect to a Wireless Docking Center (WDC) using a Near Field Communication (NFC) scheme, trigger an NFC-Peer to Peer (P2P) connection, and perform an auto docking process with the WDC, after triggering the NFC-P2P connection.

100. The WD of claim 99, wherein the controller performs one of a P2P group negotiation and P2P persistent group process with the WDC after performing the auto docking process with the WDC.

101. The WD of claim 100, wherein the controller performs a process which follows Application Service Platform (ASP) sessions setup protocol and a docking management protocol with the WDC after performing the one of P2P group negotiation and P2P persistent group process.

102. A Wireless Docking Center (WDC) in a communication system, the WDC comprising:

a controller configured to connect to a Wireless Dockee (WD) using an Near Field Communication (NFC) scheme, trigger a NFC-Peer to Peer (P2P) connection, and perform an auto docking process with the WD, after triggering the NFC-P2P connection.

103. The WDC of claim 102, wherein the controller performs one of a P2P group negotiation and P2P persistent group process with the WD after performing the auto docking process with the WD.

104. The WDC of claim 103, wherein the controller performs a process which follows Application Service Platform (ASP) sessions setup protocol and a docking management protocol with the WD after performing the one of P2P group negotiation and P2P persistent group process.