WIRELESS DEVICE AND COMMUNICATION CONNECTION METHOD WITH EXTERNAL DEVICE

• US 20170134503A1
• Filed: 11/11/2016
• Published: 05/11/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 11/11/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Cho, Yeongku
• Granted Patent: US 10,659,538 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 2205/02 using a vehicle scan tool
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 5/008 communicating information to a remotely located station transmission systems for measured values G08C
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 5/0825 using optical means
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/12 specially adapted for proprietary or special-purpose networking environments, e.g. medical networks, sensor networks, networks in vehicles or remote metering networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/141 Setup of application sessions admission control or resource allocation in data switching networks H04L47/70
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/51 Discovery or management thereof, e.g. service location protocol [SLP] or web services
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/562 Brokering proxy services
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/40 for vehicles, e.g. vehicle-to-pedestrians [V2P]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/44 for communication between vehicles and infrastructures, e.g. vehicle-to-cloud [V2C] or vehicle-to-home [V2H]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/48 for in-vehicle communication
• 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: Y02D 30/70 in wireless communication networks

Abstract

A method for at a wireless device establishing a communication connection with an external device is disclosed. The wireless device stores unique information of at least one external device connectable with the wireless device in a connection target list, and receives a connection waiting command from a server connected with the wireless device. In response to the received connection waiting command, the wireless device changes a status thereof to a connection waiting status allowing a connection with the external device, and receives a connection request from the external device finding the wireless device which is in the connection waiting status. If unique information of the connection-requesting external device is contained in the connection target list, the wireless device performs a communication connection with the connection-requesting external device, receives a command data regarding a transportation device from the connected external device, and transmits the received command data to the transportation device.

Claims

1. A method for a communication connection with an external device at a wireless device capable of communicating with a transportation device, the method comprising:

storing unique information of at least one external device connectable with the wireless device in a connection target list;

receiving a connection waiting command from a server connected with the wireless device;

in response to the received connection waiting command, changing a status to a connection waiting status allowing a connection with the external device;

receiving a connection request from the external device having found the wireless device which is in the connection waiting status;

if unique information of the connection-requesting external device is contained in the connection target list, performing a communication connection with the connection-requesting external device in response to the connection request;

receiving a command data regarding the transportation device from the connected external device; and

transmitting the received command data to the transportation device.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein storing the unique information of the at least one external device connectable with the wireless device in the connection target list includes:

receiving unique information of the connectable external device from the server; and

storing the received unique information of the external device in the connection target list.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein transmitting the received command data to the transportation device includes:

if the command data regarding the transportation device is an encoded command data, decoding the encoded command data by using a decoding key received from the server; and

transmitting the decoded command data to the transportation device.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the encoded command data includes a command data encoded using an encoding key received from the server by the external device connected with the wireless device.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

terminating the connection waiting status when the communication connection with the connection-requesting external device is performed.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the connection waiting status includes a discoverable mode status.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein receiving the connection request from the external device includes receiving a pairing request from the external device.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the wireless device communicates with the external device in a wireless communication manner and communicates with the transportation device in a wired communication manner.

9. A wireless device comprising:

a storage unit configured to store unique information of at least one external device connectable with the wireless device in a connection target list;

a communication unit configured to communicate with a server and a transportation device; and

a control unit configured to;

in response to a connection waiting command received from the server, change a status to a connection waiting status allowing a connection with the external device;

receive a connection request, through the communication unit, from the external device having found the wireless device which is in the connection waiting status;

if unique information of the connection-requesting external device is contained in the connection target list, perform a communication connection with the connection-requesting external device through the communication unit in response to the connection request;

receive a command data regarding the transportation device from the connected external device; and

transmit the received command data to the transportation device.

11. The wireless device of claim 11, wherein if the command data regarding the transportation device is an encoded command data, the control unit is further configured to decode the encoded command data by using a decoding key received from the server, and to transmit the decoded command data to the transportation device through the communication unit.

10. The wireless device of claim 11, wherein when the communication unit is configured to receive unique information of the connectable external device from the server, the control unit is further configured to control the storage unit to store the received unique information of the external device in the connection target list.

12. The wireless device of claim 13, wherein the encoded command data includes a command data encoded using an encoding key received from the server by the external device connected with the wireless device.

13. The wireless device of claim 11, wherein the control unit is further configured to terminate the connection waiting status when the communication connection with the connection-requesting external device is performed.

14. The wireless device of claim 11, wherein the connection waiting status includes a discoverable mode status.

15. The wireless device of claim 11, wherein the connection request includes a pairing request.

16. The wireless device of claim 11, wherein the communication unit is configured to communicate with the external device in a wireless communication manner and to communicate with the transportation device in a wired communication manner.

17. An external device comprising:

a display unit;

a communication unit communicating with a server; and

a control unit configured to;

transmit unique information of the external device to the server through the communication unit;

display, through the display unit, a scan list containing identification information of a wireless device entered in a connection waiting status based on the transmitted unique information of the external device;

when the identification information of the wireless device is selected in the scan list, perform a communication connection with the wireless device having the selected identification information through the communication unit; and

transmit a command data regarding a transportation device to the connected wireless device through the communication unit.