METHOD, APPARATUS AND SYSTEM FOR NETWORK ACCESS

• US 20150072653A1
• Filed: 09/22/2014
• Published: 03/12/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 09/11/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Tencent Technology Company Limited (Tencent Holdings Limited), Tencent Technology Shenzhen Company Limited (Tencent Holdings Limited)
• Original Assignee: Tencent Technology Shenzhen Company Limited (Tencent Holdings Limited)
• Inventors: Liu, Kai, Liu, Lejun, Fan, Liangliang, Lin, Xiangyao
• Granted Patent: US 9,451,464 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/411
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/2803 Home automation networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/2807 Exchanging configuration information on appliance services in a home automation network arrangements for maintenance or administration involving network analysis for automatically determining the actual topology of a network H04L41/12; hardware or software tools for network management using graphical user interfaces H04L41/22; address allocation H04L61/50
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/04 Key management, e.g. using generic bootstrapping architecture [GBA]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/06 Authentication
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/08 Access security
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/35 Protecting application or service provisioning, e.g. securing SIM application provisioning
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/71 Hardware identity
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/73 Access point logical identity
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 76/12 Setup of transport tunnels
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 84/12 WLAN [Wireless Local Area Networks]

Abstract

The present disclosure provides a method, apparatus and system for readily and conveniently getting network access for a smart device. The method for network access for a smart device includes receiving, by a server comprising a processor and a non-transitory storage medium, a first identification identifying a wireless access point and a first terminal identifier; receiving a second identification identifying a smart device and a second terminal identifier; associating the wireless access point with the smart device if the first terminal identifier corresponds to the second terminal identifier, and sending the second identification for the associated smart device to the wireless access point. The wireless access point provides network access authentication information to the smart device so that the smart device can get access to a network provided by the wireless access point with the network access authentication information.

Claims

1. A method for network access, comprising:

receiving, by a server comprising a processor and a non-transitory storage medium, a first identification identifying a wireless access point and a first terminal identifier;

receiving, by the server, a second identification identifying a smart device and a second terminal identifier;

associating, by the server, the wireless access point with the smart device if the first terminal identifier corresponds to the second terminal identifier; and

sending, by the server, the second identification for the associated smart device to the wireless access point, wherein the wireless access point provides network access authentication information to the smart device so that the smart device is configured to accesses a network provided by the wireless access point with the network access authentication information.

2. The method of claim 1, before sending the second identification of the associated smart device to the wireless access point, further comprising:

verifying whether the wireless access point is pre-registered based on the first identification; and

if the wireless access point is pre-registered, sending the associated identification for the smart device to the wireless access point.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the wireless access point provides network access authentication information to the smart device through the following:

establishing, by the smart device, a connection with the wireless access point;

receiving, by the wireless access point, identification of the smart device from the smart device through the connection; and

if the identification from the smart device corresponds to the second identification received from the server, sending, by the wireless access point, network access authentication information required by the wires access point to the smart device through the connection.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the wireless access point provides network access authentication information to the smart device through the following:

establishing, by the smart device, a connection with the wireless access point;

receiving, by the wireless access point, identification of the smart device from the smart device;

forwarding, by the wireless access point, the identification of the smart device to the server wherein the server determines whether the smart device is a pre-registered based on the identification of the smart device;

receiving, by the wireless access point, the network access authentication information required for the wireless access point from the server, if the smart device is pre-registered; and

sending, by the wireless access point, the network access authentication information to the smart device through the connection.

5. The method of claim 3, wherein establishing a connection with the smart device further comprises one of the following:

obtaining a gateway address of the wireless access point through an application programming interface of the smart device;

obtaining a gateway address of the wireless access point through parsing the hostname of the wireless access point by a domain name server; and

obtaining a gateway address of the wireless access point through broadcasting user datagram protocol packet.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein at least one of the first and second identification is obtained by reading a machine-readable code which comprises identification.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein at least one of the first and second identification identifying the respective device is obtained through wireless near field communication.

8. A method for network access, comprising:

obtaining, by a terminal comprising a processor and a non-transitory storage medium, a first identification identifying a wireless access point;

sending, by the terminal, the first identification and a first account identifier identifying a first user account to a server;

obtaining, by the terminal, a second identification identifying a smart device and a second account identifier identifying a second user account; and

sending, by the terminal, the second identification and the second account identifier to the server, wherein the server associates the first identification with the second identification if the first account identifier corresponds to the second account identifier.

9. A server apparatus, comprising a processor and a non-transitory storage medium accessible to the processor, the non-transitory storage medium is configured to store modules comprising:

an identification receiving module configured to receive, from a first terminal, a first identification identifying a wireless access point associated with a first terminal identifier identifying the first terminal, and receive, from a second terminal, a second identification identifying a smart device associated with a second terminal identifier identifying a second terminal;

an identification relating module configured to associate the wireless access point with the smart device if the first terminal identifier corresponds to the second terminal identifier; and

an identification pushing module configured to send the second identification for the associated smart device to the wireless access point, wherein the wireless access point provides network access authentication information thereof to the smart device and the smart device accesses a network provided by the wireless access point with the network access authentication information.

10. The server apparatus of claim 9, wherein the identification relating module comprises:

a binding search unit configured to find the first identification information identifying the wireless access point that is associated with the same terminal identifier as the smart device; and

an identification relating unit configured to associate the wireless access point with the smart device wherein the smart device is associated with the same terminal identifier as the wireless access point.

11. The server apparatus of claim 9, wherein at least one of the first and second identification is obtained via the associated terminal by reading a machine-readable code which comprises the respective identification information.

12. The server apparatus of claim 9, wherein at least one of the first and second identification is obtained via the associated terminal through wireless near field communication.

13. The server apparatus of claim 9, wherein the non-transitory storage medium is further configured to store modules comprising:

a wireless receiving module configured to receive the first identification identifying the wireless access point from the wireless access point;

a wireless verifying module configured to verify whether the wireless access point is pre-registered based on the first identification of the wireless access point; and

a first performing module configured to send the second identification of the smart device to the wireless access point if the wireless access point is pre-registered.

14. The server apparatus of claim 9, wherein the non-transitory storage medium is further configured to store modules comprising:

a device receiving module configured to receive the second identification of the smart device from the wireless access point after the smart device establishes the connection with the wireless access point;

a device verifying module configured to verify whether the smart device is pre-registered based on the second identification of the smart device; and

a second performing module configured to provide network access authentication information of the wireless access point to the smart device through the wireless access point if the smart device is pre-registered, wherein the network access authentication information is initially sent to the wireless access point and then forwarded to the smart device by the wireless access point.

15. The server apparatus of claim 14, wherein the smart device establishes the connection with the wireless access point according to a gateway address of the wireless access point which is obtained by a method selected from the group consisting of:

running an application programming interface of the smart device;

parsing the hostname of the wireless access point by a domain name server; and

broadcasting user datagram protocol packet.

16. A wireless access point apparatus, comprising:

a machine-readable code configured to provide first identification information of the wireless access point apparatus, a processor and a non-transitory storage medium accessible to the processor, wherein the non-transitory storage medium is configured to store modules comprising;

a receiving identification module configured to receive second identification of the smart device from a server after a server associates the first identification of the wireless access point apparatus with the second identification of the smart device; and

a password sending module configured to provide network access authentication information required by the wireless access point apparatus to the smart device according to the second identification of the smart device.

17. The wireless access point apparatus of claim 16, wherein the non-transitory storage medium is further configured to store an establishing connection unit configured to establish a connection with the smart device.

18. The wireless access point apparatus of claim 16, wherein the non-transitory storage medium is further configured to, before receiving second identification of the smart device from the server, send the first identification of the wireless point apparatus to the server so that the server verifies if the wireless access point apparatus is pre-registered based on the first identification, and if the wireless access point apparatus is pre-registered, the server sends the second identification of the smart device to the wireless access point after associating the first identification of the wireless access point apparatus with the second identification of the smart device.

19. The wireless access point apparatus of claim 16, wherein the wireless access point apparatus broadcasts a first service set identifier for establishing connection with the smart device and a second service set identifier, wherein the first service set identifier is distinct from the second service set identifier.

20. A smart device, comprising:

a machine-readable code configured to provide identification of the smart device to a terminal, wherein the terminal sends the identification to a server which associates the smart device with a wireless access point, a processor and a non-transitory storage medium accessible to the processor, wherein the non-transitory storage medium is configured to store modules comprising;

a password obtaining module configured to receive network access authentication information of the wireless access point; and

a network access module configured to access a network with the received network access authentication information.

21. The smart device of claim 20, wherein the non-transitory storage medium is further configured to store a connection establishing unit configured to establish a connection with the wireless access point according to a gateway address of the wireless access point and send the identification of the smart device to the wireless access point through the connection.

22. The smart device of claim 21, wherein the connection establishing unit configured to establish the connection with the wireless access point by performing at least one of the following:

running an application programming interface of the smart device;

parsing the hostname of the wireless access point by a domain name server; and

broadcasting user datagram protocol packet.