INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM

• US 20180310153A1
• Filed: 09/13/2016
• Published: 10/25/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 10/27/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: SUEYOSHI, MASAHIRO, NAGAYAMA, TOMOHIKO
• Granted Patent: US 10,674,339 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 5/48 Transceivers
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/06 Authentication
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/069 using certificates or pre-shared keys
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/00 Services specially adapted for wireless communication networks; Facilities therefor
• 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 84/10 Small scale networks; Flat hierarchical networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 84/12 WLAN [Wireless Local Area Networks]

Abstract

There is provided an information processing device including: a processing unit configured to authenticate a communication target device on a basis of predetermined information transmitted from the communication target device by broadcast in communication in a first communication scheme, the predetermined information being used in a process to be performed in communication in a second communication scheme that is different from the first communication scheme, and establish the communication with the communication target device in the first communication scheme in a case in which authentication is completed.

Claims

1. An information processing device comprising:

a processing unit configured to authenticate a communication target device on a basis of predetermined information transmitted from the communication target device by broadcast in communication in a first communication scheme, the predetermined information being used in a process to be performed in communication in a second communication scheme that is different from the first communication scheme, and establish the communication with the communication target device in the first communication scheme in a case in which authentication is completed.

2. The information processing device according to claim 1,

wherein the predetermined information is identification information indicating a device, and

the processing unit authenticates the communication target device on a basis of the identification information.

3. The information processing device according to claim 1,

wherein the predetermined information is service type information indicating a service, and

the processing unit authenticates the communication target device on a basis of the service type information.

4. The information processing device according to claim 1,

wherein, when the communication with the communication target device in the first communication scheme is established,

the processing unit performs a process using information to be used in the process to be performed in the communication in the second communication scheme through the communication established with the communication target device in the first communication scheme.

5. The information processing device according to claim 4,

wherein the processing unit

determines a state of the communication with the communication target device in the first communication scheme,

acquires information stored in a secure recording medium from the communication target device as the information to be used on a basis of a determination result, and

performs a process using the acquired information stored in the secure recording medium.

6. The information processing device according to claim 5,

wherein the state of the communication in the first communication scheme is communication strength of the communication in the first communication scheme, and

the processing unit acquires the information stored in the secure recording medium from the communication target device in a case in which the communication strength has a value greater than a predetermined threshold value or a case in which the communication strength has a value greater than or equal to the predetermined threshold value.

7. The information processing device according to claim 5,

wherein the state of the communication in the first communication scheme is a communication distance of the communication in the first communication scheme, and

the processing unit acquires the information stored in the secure recording medium from the communication target device in a case in which the communication distance has a value smaller than a predetermined threshold value or a case in which the communication distance has a value equal to or smaller than the predetermined threshold value.

8. The information processing device according to claim 4,

wherein the processing unit determines a predetermined action performed by a user of the communication target device,

acquires information stored in a secure recording medium from the communication target device as the information to be used on a basis of a determination result, and

performs a process using the acquired information stored in the secure recording medium.

9. The information processing device according to claim 4,

wherein, in a case in which a plurality of communication target devices that have established the communication in the first communication scheme are present,

the processing unit performs a process using information to be used in the process to be performed in the communication in the second communication scheme through the communication established with each of the plurality of communication target devices in the first communication scheme

10. The information processing device according to claim 9, wherein the processing unit changes a process to be executed on a basis of a combination of the information to be used acquired from each of the plurality of communication target devices.

11. The information processing device according to claim 1, wherein the communication in the second communication scheme has a shorter communicable distance than the communication in the first communication scheme.

12. An information processing method executed by an information processing device, the information processing method comprising:

a step of authenticating a communication target device on a basis of predetermined information transmitted from the communication target device by broadcast in communication in a first communication scheme, the predetermined information being used in a process to be performed in communication in a second communication scheme that is different from the first communication scheme, and establishing the communication with the communication target device in the first communication scheme in a case in which authentication is completed.

13. A program for causing a computer to realize a function of authenticating a communication target device on a basis of predetermined information transmitted from the communication target device by broadcast in communication in a first communication scheme, the predetermined information being used in a process to be performed in communication in a second communication scheme that is different from the first communication scheme, and establishing the communication with the communication target device in the first communication scheme in a case in which authentication is completed.

14. An information processing device comprising:

a processing unit configured to determine a state of communication with a communication target device when communication with the communication target device is established and not to perform a process based on a request transmitted from the communication target device on a basis of a determination result.

15. The information processing device according to claim 14,

wherein the state of the communication is communication strength of the communication, and

the processing unit does not perform the process based on the request transmitted from the communication target device in a case in which the communication strength has a value smaller than a predetermined value or in a case in which the communication strength has a value equal to or smaller than the predetermined threshold value.

16. The information processing device according to claim 14,

wherein the state of the communication is a communication distance of the communication, and

the processing unit does not perform the process based on the request transmitted from the communication target device in a case in which the communication distance has a value greater than a predetermined threshold value or in a case in which the communication distance has a value greater than or equal to the predetermined threshold value.