METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MANAGING WIRELESS DOCKING NETWORK

• US 20140351480A1
• 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, Vedula, Kiran Bharadwaj, Kim, Jun-Hyung, Srinivasa Gopalan, Karthik
• Application Number:
  US14/286,425
• Publication Number:
  US 20140351480A1
• 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 12/2809 indicating that an appliance service is present in a home automation network monitoring functionality H04L43/0817; discovery or management thereof, e.g. service location protocol [SLP] or web services, H04L67/51
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/2816 Controlling appliance services of a home automation network by calling their functionalities arrangements in telecontrol or telemetry systems for selectively calling a substation from a main station; in which substation desired apparatus is selected for applying a control signal thereto or for obtaining measured values therefrom H04Q9/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0809 Plug-and-play configuration
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/20 Services signaling; Auxiliary data signalling, i.e. transmitting data via a non-traffic channel
• 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 40/246 Connectivity information discovery

Abstract

Methods and apparatuses are provided for managing a Wireless Docking Network (WDN). A Wireless Docking Center (WDC) receives a creation request message for creating the WDN from a Wireless Dockee (WD). The WDC identifies one or more peripheral devices based on the creation request message. The WDC creates the WDN based on the one or more peripheral devices. A response message including an ID of the WDN is transmitted from the WDC to the WD.

Claims

1. A method of managing a Wireless Docking Network (WDN) by a Wireless Docking Center (WDC), the method comprising the steps of:

receiving, at the WDC, a creation request message for creating the WDN from a Wireless Dockee (WD);

identifying, at the WDC, one or more peripheral devices based on the creation request message;

creating, at the WDC, the WDN based on the one or more peripheral devices; and

transmitting, from the WDC, to the WD, a response message including an ID of the WDN.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving, at the WDC, from the WD, a modify request message including the ID of the WDN for modifying the WDN;

modifying the created WDN according to the modify request message; and

transmitting, from the WDC, to the WD, a response message corresponding to the modify request message.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein modifying the WDN comprises adding one or more new peripheral devices to the WDN, when the modify request message includes IDs of the one or more new peripheral devices.

4. The method of claim 2, wherein modifying the WDN comprises removing a peripheral device from the WDN, when the modify request message includes an ID of the peripheral device within the WDN.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving, at the WDC, from the WD, a deletion request message, including the ID of the WDN, for deleting the WDN;

deleting the WDN at the WDC; and

transmitting, from the WDC, to the WD, a response message corresponding to the deletion request message.

6. A method of managing a Wireless Docking Network (WDN) by a Wireless Dockee (WD), the method comprising the steps of:

transmitting, from the WD, to a Wireless Docking Center (WDC), a creation request message for creating the WDN; and

receiving, at the WD, from the WDC, a response message including an ID of the WDN created according to the creation request message.

7. The method of claim 6, further comprising:

transmitting, from the WD, to the WDC, a modify request message, including the ID of the WDN, for modifying the WDN; and

receiving, at the WD, from the WDC, a response message corresponding to the modify request message.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein transmitting the modify request message comprises inserting IDs of one or more new peripheral devices into the modify request message, and making a request to add the one or more new peripheral devices to the WDN.

9. The method of claim 7, wherein the transmitting the modify request message comprises inserting an ID of a peripheral device within the WDN into the modify request message, and making a request to remove the peripheral device from the WDN.

10. The method of claim 6, further comprising:

transmitting, from the WD, to the WDC, a deletion request message including the ID of the WDN for deleting the WDN; and

receiving, at the WD, from the WDC, a response message corresponding to the deletion request message.

11. A Wireless Docking Center (WDC) device for managing a Wireless Docking Network (WDN), the WDC device comprising:

a transceiver configured to receive, from a Wireless Dockee (WD), a creation request message for creating the WDN; and

a controller configured to identify one or more peripheral devices based on the creation request message, to create the WDN based on the one or more peripheral devices, and to transmit, to the WD, a response message including an ID of the WDN.

12. The WDC device of claim 11, wherein the transceiver is further configured to receive, from the WD, a modify request message including the ID of the WDN for modifying the WDN, and the controller is further configured to modify the WDN according to the modify request message and control the transceiver to transmit, to the WD, a response message corresponding to the modify request message.

13. The WDC device of claim 12, wherein, when the modify request message includes IDs of one or more new peripheral devices, the controller is further configured to add the one or more new peripheral devices to the WDN.

14. The WDC device of claim 12, wherein, when the modify request message includes an ID of a peripheral device within the WDN, the controller is further configured to remove the peripheral device from the WDN.

15. The WDC device of claim 11, wherein, when a deletion request message, including the ID of the WDN, for deleting the WDN is received from the WD, the controller is further configured to delete the WDN and to control the transceiver to transmit, to the WD, a response message corresponding to the deletion request message.

16. A Wireless Dockee (WD) device for managing a Wireless Docking Network (WDN), the WD device comprising:

a transceiver configured to transmit and receive signals; and

a controller configured to control the transceiver to transmit, to a Wireless Docking Center (WDC), a creation request message for creating the WDN, and to control the transceiver to receive, from the WDC, a response message including an ID of the WDN created according to the creation request message.

17. The WD device of claim 16, wherein the controller is further configured to control the transceiver to transmit, to the WDC, a modify request message including the ID of the WDN for modifying the WDN, and to receive a response message corresponding to the modify request message from the WDC.

18. The WD device of claim 17, wherein the controller is further configured to insert IDs of one or more new peripheral devices into the modify request message and make a request to add the one or more new peripheral devices to the WDN.

19. The WD device of claim 17, wherein the controller is further configured to insert an ID of a peripheral device within the WDN into the modify request message, and make a request for removing the peripheral device from the WDN.

20. The WD device of claim 16, wherein the controller is further configured to control the transceiver to transmit, to the WDC, a deletion request message including the ID of the WDN for deleting the WDN, and receive a response message corresponding to the deletion request message from the WDC.

21. A system for managing a Wireless Docking Network (WDN), the system comprising:

a Wireless Docking Center (WDC) device configured to receive, from a Wireless Dockee (WD), a creation request message for creating the WDN, to identify one or more peripheral devices based on the creation request message, to create the WDN based on the one or more peripheral devices, and to transmit, to the WD, a response message including an ID of the WDN; and

the WD device configured to transmit, to the WDC, the creation request message, and to receive, from the WDC, the response message.

22. An article of manufacture for managing a Wireless Docking Network (WDN), comprising a machine readable medium containing one or more programs which when executed implement the steps of:

receiving a creation request message for creating the WDN from a Wireless Dockee (WD);

identifying one or more peripheral devices based on the creation request message;

creating the WDN based on the one or more peripheral devices; and

transmitting to the WD, a response message including an ID of the WDN.

23. An article of manufacture for managing a Wireless Docking Network (WDN), comprising a machine readable medium containing one or more programs which when executed implement the steps of:

transmitting to a Wireless Docking Center (WDC), a creation request message for creating the WDN; and

receiving from the WDC, a response message including an ID of the WDN created according to the creation request message.