Wireless communication device having short-distance wireless communications

• US 8,086,220 B2
• Filed: 05/20/2008
• Issued: 12/27/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 02/19/1998
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Tokoro, Mario
• Primary Examiner(s): Cumming, William D
• Application Number:
  US12/154,060
• Publication Number:
  US 20080291263A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,316 Days
• Field of Search: 455/41.2, 348/14.02
• US Class Current: 455/411
• CPC Class Codes: G08C 23/04 using light waves, e.g. infrared
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 61/4535 using an address exchange platform which sets up a session between two nodes, e.g. rendezvous servers, session initiation protocols [SIP] registrars or H.323 gatekeepers
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/08 for authentication of entities cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for entity authentication H04L9/32
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/0892 by using authentication-authorization-accounting [AAA] servers or protocols
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/10 for controlling access to devices or network resources
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/101 Access control lists [ACL]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/18 using different networks or channels, e.g. using out of band channels cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for key distribution involving distinctive intermediate devices or communication paths H04L9/0827; cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for authentication using a plurality of channels H04L9/3215
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1026 at the edge
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1036 at the edge
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1083 In-session procedures
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1094 Inter-user-equipment sessions transfer or sharing
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1101 Session protocols
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/04 specially adapted for terminals or networks with limited capabilities; specially adapted for terminal portability
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/14 Session management for real-time applications in data packet communications networks H04L65/1066
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72412 using two-way short-range wireless interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2201/50 Telephonic communication in combination with video communication
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 3/567 Multimedia conference systems
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 7/0027 Collaboration services where a computer is used for data transfer and the telephone is used for telephonic communication
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/142 Constructional details of the terminal equipment, e.g. arrangements of the camera and the display
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/148 Interfacing a video terminal to a particular transmission medium, e.g. ISDN
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/08 : Access security
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 76/15 : Setup of multiple wireless link connections
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/26 : Network addressing or numbering for mobility support
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 80/00 : Wireless network protocols or protocol adaptations to wireless operation
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/06 : adapted for operation in multiple networks or having at least two operational modes, e.g. multi-mode terminals

Abstract

In a communication of audio signals between first and second portable-telephone devices through a first portable-telephone base station, a second portable-telephone base station and a portable-telephone line network has been connected, IP addresses are exchanged. The IP addresses are required for communicating image data by first and second terminal adapters associated with the first and second portable-telephone devices respectively through an OCN. Image data is then transmitted to the IP addresses received in the communication through the OCN.

Claims

1. A wireless communications apparatus, comprising:

a short-distance wireless connection request transmitter configured to transmit, in response to an operation of a user of said wireless communications apparatus that is a source of a connection request, said connection request and identification information of said wireless communications apparatus to a mate apparatus;

a short-distance wireless identification information receiver configured to receive, triggered by the reception of said mate apparatus of said connection request transmitted by said short-distance wireless communications apparatus, identification information of said mate apparatus that is transmitted from said mate apparatus by short-distance wireless communication;

a short-distance wireless communications termination requestor configured to execute, in response to an operation by a user of said wireless communications apparatus, processing associated with termination of short-distance wireless communication,

wherein communications with said mate apparatus is controlled by said short-distance wireless connection request transmitter, said short-distance wireless identification information receiver, and said short-distance wireless communication termination requester.

3. The wireless communication apparatus of claim 1, further comprising a long distance communication unit, the long distance communication unit having a communication range longer than the short-distance wireless connection request transmitter.

4. The wireless communication apparatus of claim 3, wherein said long distance communication unit transmits and receives information by radio wave.

5. The wireless communication apparatus of claim 1 further comprising a display unit.

6. The wireless communication apparatus of claim 1 further comprising a microphone and a speaker for voice communication.

7. The wireless communication apparatus of claim 1, wherein said mate apparatus includes an imaging unit to pick up an image of said user.

8. The wireless communication apparatus of claim 7, wherein said imaging unit transmits image signals over a long-distance communication channel to a remote location.

2. A wireless communications method, comprising:

transmitting, in response to an operatic a user of the wireless communications apparatus that is a source of a connection request, said connection request and identification information of said wireless communications apparatus to a mate apparatus;

receiving, triggered by the reception of said mate apparatus of said transmitted connection request, identification information of said mate apparatus that is transmitted from said mate apparatus by short-distance wireless communication; and

executing, in response to an operation by a user of said wireless communications apparatus, processing associated with termination of short-distance wireless communication,

wherein communications with said mate apparatus is controlled by said transmitted short-distance wireless connection request, said received short-distance wireless identification information, and said termination of said short-distance wireless communication.