Radio terminal and ad hoc communication method

• US 7,733,861 B2
• Filed: 12/23/2004
• Issued: 06/08/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 09/17/2004
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Original Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Inventors: Suga, Junichi
• Primary Examiner(s): Sheikh; Ayaz R
• Assistant Examiner(s): Wong; Blanche
• Application Number:
  US11/019,609
• Publication Number:
  US 20060062220A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,993 Days
• Field of Search: 370/392, 370/465, 370/254, 370/255, 370/256, 370/260, 370/270, 370/39.3, 370/395.31, 370/400, 370/411, 455/445
• US Class Current: 370/392
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 24/00 Supervisory, monitoring or testing arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 28/18 Negotiating wireless communication parameters
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 84/18 Self-organising networks, e.g. ad-hoc networks or sensor networks

Abstract

A source terminal reflects user information of a communication destination terminal in setting information for ad hoc communication, and establishes an ad hoc network by notifying management information including the setting information to terminals surrounding its own terminal. The communication destination terminal monitors the user information of its own terminal in a received management information, and judges that the call is for its own terminal when the user information of its own terminal exists, and reflects the setting information including in the management information in the setting information for the ad hoc communication, and executes the ad hoc communication with the source terminal by participating in the ad hoc network. Then, ad hoc communication processes, manually executed conventionally, is executed automatically.

Claims

1. A radio terminal having an ad hoc communication function, comprising:

a designating section configured to designate a destination terminal to establish a new ad hoc communication;

a setting section configured to automatically generating setting information for the new ad hoc communication including user information of said destination terminal designated by said designating section in setting information for the ad hoc communication; and

a transmitting section configured to broadcast management information including said setting information, wherein if the destination terminal has an ad hoc communication function and identifies said user information of said setting information of said management information as its own user information, the destination terminal is to automatically set said setting information as setting information for the new ad hoc communication to establish the new ad hoc communication between the radio terminal and the destination terminal.

2. The radio terminal according to claim 1, wherein said setting section comprises a section configured to set user information of its own terminal in said setting information, in addition to the user information of said destination terminal.

3. The radio terminal according to claim 1, wherein said user information of said destination terminal is telephone number information.

4. The radio terminal according to claim 1, wherein said transmitting section comprises a section configured to broadcast said management information including said setting information to the new radio area periodically.

5. The radio terminal according to claim 1, further comprising:

a confirming section configured to confirm participation of said destination terminal in said ad hoc network; and

an ad hoc communication section configured to perform ad hoc communication with said destination terminal, when the participation of said destination terminal in said ad hoc network was confirmed by said confirming section.

6. The radio terminal according to claim 5, further comprising:

network media comprising a plurality of kinds of communication media and including the ad hoc communication; and

a transmitting section configured to transmit to said destination terminal by using a different network medium other than the ad hoc communication, in the case where the participation of said destination terminal in said ad hoc network was not able to be confirmed by said confirming section.

7. The radio terminal according to claim 1, wherein, said setting section comprises a section configured to set information that is encrypted by using either one or both of a private key being the user information of its own terminal and a public key being the user information of said destination terminal in said setting information.

8. The radio terminal according to claim 1, wherein, said setting section comprises a section configured to set, in said setting information, information comprising an encryption key to be used in the ad hoc communication that was encrypted by using a public key being the user information of said destination terminal.

9. An ad hoc communication method between radio terminals in an ad hoc network, comprising the steps of:

at a radio terminal having an ad hoc function as a source terminal;

automatically generating setting information for the new ad hoc communication including user information of a radio terminal having an ad hoc function as a destination terminal;

broadcasting management information including said setting information;

at said destination terminal;

monitoring the existence of management information broadcasted from said source terminal in the ad hoc network;

if there exists management information, judging whether the user information of the setting information of the management information is its own user information; and

automatically setting said setting information as setting information for the new ad hoc communication to establish the new ad hoc communication with the source terminal.

10. The ad hoc communication method according to claim 9, at said source terminal, further comprising the step of:

setting user information of its own terminal in its own setting information, in addition to the user information of said destination terminal.

11. The ad hoc communication method according to claim 9, at said source terminal, further comprising the step of:

in order to establish said ad hoc network,

broadcasting said management information including said setting information to the new radio area periodically.

12. The ad hoc communication method according to claim 9, at said source terminal, further comprising the steps of:

confirming participation of said destination terminal in said ad hoc network; and

performing the ad hoc communication with said destination terminal, when the participation of said destination terminal in said ad hoc network was confirmed.

13. The ad hoc communication method according to claim 12, wherein said source terminal provides network media being two kinds or more including the ad hoc communication, and at said source terminal, further comprising the step of:

in the case where the participation of said destination terminal in said ad hoc network was not able to be confirmed,

executing a transmitting process to said destination terminal by using a different network medium except the ad hoc communication.

14. The ad hoc communication method according to claim 9, at said source terminal, further comprising the step of:

using setting information that is encrypted by using either one or both of a private key being the user information of its own terminal and a public key being the user information of said destination terminal in said setting information.

15. The ad hoc communication method according to claim 14, wherein at said destination terminal, further comprising the steps of:

judging whether said management information is able to be decrypted or not by using a private key being the user information of its own terminal, and judging that the received call is for its own terminal when said management information was able to be decrypted.

16. The ad hoc communication method according to claim 14, wherein at said destination terminal, further comprising the steps of:

judging whether said management information is able to be decrypted or not by using a public key being the user information of said source terminal, and judging that said management information is information from a legal source terminal when said management information was able to be decrypted.

17. The ad hoc communication method according to claim 9, wherein at said source terminal, further comprising the step of:

using setting information, in which an encryption key to be used in the ad hoc communication was encrypted by using a public key being the user information of said destination terminal, in said setting information.

18. The ad hoc communication method according to claim 17, wherein at said destination terminal, further comprising the steps of:

decrypting said encryption key for the ad hoc communication from said management information by using said private key being the user information of its own terminal and extracting said decrypted encryption key; and

performing the ad hoc communication with said source terminal in encryption by using the extracted encryption key.

19. The ad hoc communication method according to claim 9, wherein at said destination terminal, further comprising the steps of:

judging whether user information of said source terminal is included in said management information or not, in the case where the received call was judged for its own terminal; and

distinguishing said source terminal based on said user information when said user information of said source terminal was included.

20. The ad hoc communication method according to claim 9, wherein said user information of a radio terminal is telephone number information.