Method, apparatus and system for AP to manage wireless repeater

• US 9,166,946 B2
• Filed: 12/14/2012
• Issued: 10/20/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 12/16/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Huawei Device Company Limited (Huawei Investment & Holding Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Huawei Device Company Limited (Huawei Investment & Holding Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: Wang, Weihong
• Primary Examiner(s): ALGIBHAH, HAMZA N
• Application Number:
  US13/715,394
• Publication Number:
  US 20130103855A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,040 Days
• Field of Search: 709/245
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/04 Network management architectures or arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0809 Plug-and-play configuration
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 61/5014 using dynamic host configuration protocol [DHCP] or bootstrap protocol [BOOTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 24/00 Supervisory, monitoring or testing arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 24/08 Testing, supervising or monitoring using real traffic
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 84/047 using dedicated repeater stations

Abstract

Embodiments of the present invention relate to the field of communications technologies, disclose a method, an apparatus and a system for an access point (AP) to manage a wireless repeater, and include: receiving an internet protocol (IP) address request message that includes a domain name of a repeater to be managed and that is sent by a management console; parsing the IP address request message to obtain the domain name of the repeater to be managed; obtaining, from a domain name management list, an IP address of the repeater that corresponds to the domain name of the repeater to be managed, where correspondence between an IP address of a repeater and domain name information of the repeater is recorded in the domain name management list; and sending, to the management console, the IP address of the repeater that corresponds to the domain name of the repeater to be managed.

Claims

1. A method for an access point (AP) to manage a wireless repeater comprising:

receiving an internet protocol (IP) address request message that comprises a domain name of a repeater to be managed and that is sent by a management console;

parsing the IP address request message to obtain the domain name of the repeater to be managed;

obtaining, from a domain name management list, an IP address of the repeater that corresponds to the domain name of the repeater to be managed, wherein correspondence between the IP address of the repeater and domain name information of the repeater is recorded in the domain name management list; and

sending, to the management console, the IP address of the repeater that corresponds to the domain name of the repeater to be managed,

wherein before obtaining the IP address of the repeater, the method further comprises;

receiving a report message that comprises the IP address and the domain name information of the repeater and that is sent by the repeater;

identifying the IP address and the domain name information from the report message; and

recording the correspondence between the IP address and the domain name information in the domain name management list.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the IP address is a static IP address of the repeater.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein the IP address is an IP address generated by the repeater according to an IP address segment of the AP connected to the repeater.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein the IP address is an IP address assigned by the AP connected to the repeater, and wherein the repeater sends the domain name information through an option of a dynamic host configuration protocol (DHCP).

5. The method according to claim 1, wherein the IP address request message is a domain name system (DNS) request packet.

6. An apparatus for an access point (AP) to manage a wireless repeater comprising:

a first receiving unit configured to receive an Internet Protocol (IP) address request message that comprises a domain name of a repeater to be managed and is sent by a management console;

a parsing unit configured to parse the IP address request message to obtain the domain name of the repeater to be managed;

an obtaining unit configured to obtain, from a domain name management list, an IP address of the repeater that corresponds to the domain name of the repeater to be managed, wherein correspondence between the IP address of the repeater and domain name information of the repeater is recorded in the domain name management list;

a sending unit configured to send, to the management console, the IP address of the repeater that corresponds to the domain name of the repeater to be managed;

a second receiving unit configured to receive a report message that comprises the IP address and the domain name information of the repeater and that is sent by the repeater;

an identifying unit configured to identify the IP address and the domain name information from the report message; and

a recording unit configured to record the correspondence between the IP address and the domain name information in the domain name management list.

7. The apparatus according to claim 6, wherein the IP address is a static IP address of the repeater.

8. The apparatus according to claim 6, wherein the IP address is an IP address generated by the repeater according to an IP address segment of the AP.

9. The apparatus according to claim 6, wherein the IP address is an IP address assigned by the AP, and wherein the repeater sends the domain name information through an option of a dynamic host configuration protocol (DHCP).

10. A system to manage a wireless repeater comprising:

a repeater;

an access point (AP); and

a management console,

wherein the repeater is configured to send, to the AP, a report message comprising an Internet Protocol (IP) address and domain name information of the repeater,

wherein the AP is configured to identify the IP address and the domain name information from the report message,

wherein the AP is configured to record correspondence between the IP address and the domain name information in a domain name management list,

wherein the AP is configured to parse an IP address request message sent by the management console to obtain a domain name of the repeater to be managed,

wherein the AP is configured to obtain, from the domain name management list, the IP address of the repeater that corresponds to the domain name of the repeater to be managed,

wherein the AP is configured to send, to the management console, the IP address of the repeater that corresponds to the domain name of the repeater to be managed, and

wherein the management console is configured to send, to the AP, the IP address request message comprising the domain name of the repeater to be managed.

11. The system according to claim 10, wherein the management console is connected to the repeater or the AP.

12. The system according to claim 10, wherein the IP address of the management console is obtained by the management console from the AP in a dynamic host configuration protocol (DHCP) client manner, and an IP address of a domain name system (DNS) is an IP address of the AP, or wherein an IP address of the management console and an IP address of the AP are statically configured to IP addresses of a same network segment, and an IP address of a DNS is the IP address of the AP.