Display generating device, display generating method, program, and wireless communication system

• US 8,971,795 B2
• Filed: 06/26/2012
• Issued: 03/03/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 02/05/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Watanabe, Kazuhiro
• Primary Examiner(s): PHUONG, DAI
• Application Number:
  US13/533,724
• Publication Number:
  US 20130007623A1
• Time in Patent Office: 980 Days
• Field of Search: 455/428, 4554321-453, 4554561-457, 455/513, 455524-526, 4555521-5531, 455/566, 4551151-1154, 370328-333
• US Class Current: 455/11.1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04842 Selection of displayed objects or displayed text elements G06F3/0482 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04847 Interaction techniques to control parameter settings, e.g. interaction with sliders or dials
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/22 comprising specially adapted graphical user interfaces [GUI]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/5012 determining service availability, e.g. which services are available at a certain point in time
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/5077 wherein the managed service relates to simple transport services, i.e. providing only network infrastructure
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/0811 by checking connectivity
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 45/12 Shortest path evaluation
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 24/00 Supervisory, monitoring or testing arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 40/02 Communication route or path selection, e.g. power-based or shortest path routing

Abstract

A display generating device includes a display screen generator generating a display screen showing connection status between each wireless communication device in a wireless network in which a plurality of the wireless communication devices operate in an autonomous and distributed manner, and a detector detecting an operation of changing connection status performed by a user via the display screen generated by the display screen generator, wherein, when the operation of changing connection status is detected by the detector, the display generating device performs a change process of reflecting the content of the operation of changing connection status.

Claims

1. A display generating device comprising:

a display screen generator generating a display screen showing communication paths among a plurality of wireless communication devices in a wireless network;

a display unit configured to display communication paths among the plurality of wireless communication devices in the wireless network in more than one dimension;

a detector detecting a user input via the display screen generated by the display screen generator; and

a communication path setter changing communication path information based on the user input detected by the detector;

wherein the display screen shows the communication paths along with graphical indicators indicating types of permission related to relay link for the communication paths,

wherein the types of permission related to relay link for the communication paths is selected from the group including a first type, a second type and a third type;

wherein the first type has a first routing protocol where a wireless link can be used as a non-relay link and also as a relay link;

wherein the second type has a second routing protocol where a wireless link can be used as a non-relay link, but not as a relay link; and

wherein the third type to the relay link for the communication path has a third routing protocol where a wireless link can be used neither as a non-relay link nor as a relay link.

2. The display generating device according to claim 1, wherein

the display generating device has a function of configuring the wireless network,

and wherein when the user input is detected by the detector, the communication path setter resets, as a change process, a communication path among at least two of the plurality of wireless communication devices according to content of the user input.

3. The display generating device according to claim 1, wherein

when the user input is detected by the detector, the display screen generator generates, as a change process, a display screen reflecting content of the user input.

4. The display generating device according to claim 3, further comprising:

a transmitter transmitting, when the user input is detected by the detector, content of the user input to at least one of the plurality of wireless communication devices in the wireless network.

5. A display generating method, comprising the steps of:

generating a display screen showing communication paths among a plurality of wireless communication devices in a wireless network;

displaying communication paths among the plurality of wireless communication devices in the wireless network in more than one dimension;

detecting a user input via the display screen generated by the display screen generator; and

changing, by a communication path setter, communication path information based on the user input detected by the detector;

generating graphical indicators along with the communication paths for indicating types of permission related to relay link for the communication paths,

wherein the types of permission related to relay link for the communication paths is selected from the group including a first type, a second type and a third type;

wherein the first type has a first routing protocol where a wireless link can be used as a non-relay link and also as a relay link;

wherein the second type has a second routing protocol where a wireless link can be used as a non-relay link, but not as a relay link; and

wherein the third type to the relay link for the communication path has a third routing protocol where a wireless link can be used neither as a non-relay link nor as a relay link.

6. A nontransitory computer-readable medium encoded with a program, which when executed by a computer, causes the computer to function as:

a display screen generator generating a display screen showing communication paths among a plurality of wireless communication devices in a wireless network;

a detector detecting a user input via the display screen generated by the display screen generator; and

a communication path setter changing communication path information based on the user input detected by the detector;

wherein the display screen shows the communication paths along with graphical indicators indicating types of permission related to relay link for the communication paths,

wherein the types of permission related to relay link for the communication paths is selected from the group including a first type, a second type and a third type;

wherein the first type has a first routing protocol where a wireless link can be used as a non-relay link and also as a relay link;

wherein the second type has a second routing protocol where a wireless link can be used as a non-relay link, but not as a relay link; and

wherein the third type to the relay link for the communication path has a third routing protocol where a wireless link can be used neither as a non-relay link nor as a relay link.

7. The nontransitory computer-readable medium of claim 6, wherein the communication path types consist of permitted paths, paths that will never be used, and paths that are refused.

8. A wireless communication system comprising a plurality of wireless communication devices that operate in an autonomous and distributed manner and configure a wireless network, wherein

each of the plurality of the wireless communication devices includes:

a display screen generator generating a display screen showing communication paths among the plurality of wireless communication devices in the wireless network;

a display unit configured to display communication paths among the plurality of wireless communication devices in the wireless network in more than one dimension;

a detector detecting a user input via the display screen generated by the display screen generator; and

a communication path setter changing communication path information based on the user input detected by the detector;

wherein the display screen shows the communication paths along with graphical indicators indicating types of permission related to relay link for the communication paths,

wherein the types of permission related to relay link for the communication paths is selected from the group including a first type, a second type and a third type;

wherein the first type has a first routing protocol where a wireless link can be used as a non-relay link and also as a relay link;

wherein the second type has a second routing protocol where a wireless link can be used as a non-relay link, but not as a relay link; and

wherein the third type to the relay link for the communication path has a third routing protocol where a wireless link can be used neither as a non-relay link nor as a relay link.

9. The wireless communication system of claim 8, wherein the communication path types consist of permitted paths, paths that will never be used, and paths that are refused.

10. A device, comprising:

a processor programmed to

generate an image showing communication paths among a plurality of wireless communication devices in a wireless network, the paths being dispayed in more than one dimension;

detect a user input via a dispay screen;

change a communication path based on a user input;

wherein the image includes a graphical indicator that indicates a mode of a wireless communication device,

wherein the mode is selected from a group including a first mode, a second mode and a third mode,

wherein the first mode has a first routing protocol where a wireless link can be used as a no-nrelay link and also as a relay link,

wherein the mode has a second routing protocol where a wireless link can be used as a non-relay link, but not as a relay link; and

wherein the third mode has a third routing protocol where a wireless link can be used neither as a non-relay link nor as a relay link.

11. The device of claim 10, wherein the communication path types consist of permitted paths, paths that will never be used, and paths that are refused.