Proxy communication system and control method thereof in ban environment

• US 9,357,339 B2
• Filed: 11/08/2012
• Issued: 05/31/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 11/08/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Son, Jae-Seung, Gu, Sun-Gi, Park, Seung-Hoon, Bae, Tae-Han, Won, Eun-Tae
• Primary Examiner(s): Milord, Marceau
• Application Number:
  US14/356,768
• Publication Number:
  US 20140315494A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,300 Days
• Field of Search: 455/41.1, 455/41.2, 455/426.1
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/0002 Remote monitoring of patients using telemetry, e.g. transmission of vital signals via a communication network A61B5/07 takes precedence; transmission systems for measured values G08C; transmission H04B; transmission of digital information H04L; wireless communication networks H04W
• CPC Class Codes: G08C 17/02 using a radio link
• CPC Class Codes: G08C 2201/112 Mechanical energy, e.g. vibration, piezoelectric
• CPC Class Codes: G08C 2201/114 Solar power
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/56 Provisioning of proxy services store-and-forward switching systems in data switching networks H04L12/54
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/06 Authentication
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/50 Secure pairing of devices
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/70 Services for machine-to-machine communication [M2M] or machine type communication [MTC]
• 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

Abstract

Disclosed is a control method of a communication system including at least one sensor that a user wears, a wireless communication apparatus and a coordinator. The control method of the communication system includes: in the coordinator, receiving a proxy authority request for proxy with respect to the at least one sensor and the coordinator from the wireless communication apparatus, and granting the proxy authority to the wireless communication apparatus; in the wireless communication apparatus, creating a user identifier corresponding to the user; in the wireless communication apparatus, searching for the at least one sensor that the user wears, and forming a pairing with the at least one found sensor; in the wireless communication apparatus, making a request to the at least one found sensor for association information for the association with the coordinator and the sensor, and receiving the association information; in the wireless communication apparatus, making a request to the coordinator for association proxy for an association between the at least one found sensor and the coordinator, and receiving the association proxy in response to the request; and in the coordinator, requesting data by forming an association with the at least one found sensor, and receiving data corresponding to the data request.

Claims

1. A control method of a communication system including at least one sensor that a user wears, a wireless communication apparatus and a coordinator, the method comprising:

transmitting, by the wireless communication apparatus, a proxy authority request for proxy with respect to the at least one sensor and the coordinator to the coordinator, and receiving a proxy authority from the coordinator;

creating, by the wireless communication apparatus, a user identifier corresponding to the user who wears the at least one sensor;

searching, by the wireless communication apparatus, for the at least one sensor that the user wears, and forming a pairing with the at least one searched sensor;

transmitting, by the wireless communication apparatus, a request to the at least one searched sensor for association information for the association with the coordinator and the sensor, and receiving the association information, the request for association information comprising information on the coordinator and the association information comprising an identifier of the at least one searched sensor; and

transmitting, by the wireless communication apparatus, a request to the coordinator for an association proxy for the association between the at least one searched sensor and the coordinator, and receiving the association proxy comprising the identifier of the at least one searched sensor in response to the request for direct communication between the coordinator and the at least one searched sensor.

2. The method as claimed in claim 1, further comprising, after the receiving the association information, transmitting, by the wireless communication apparatus, the user identifier to the at least one searched sensor.

3. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein, in the creating the user identifier, the user identifier is created on the basis of an external input for the user identifier.

4. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein, in creating the user identifier, the user identifier is created on the basis of a RF signal received from an RF signal generating means located around the user.

5. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein, in the forming of the pairing, the pairing is formed on the basis of the near-field communication (NFC) technique.

6. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein, in the forming of the pairing, when the type of communication technique that the at least one searched sensor uses is identical, the pairing with respect to each of the at least one searched sensor is formed sequentially.

7. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the association information further comprises information on the sensor.

8. The method as claimed in claim 7, wherein the information on the sensor is at least one of a serial number, a form, and a battery type of the sensor.

9. The method as claimed in claim 7, wherein, if the coordinator includes the database with the information on the sensor, the association proxy comprises the identifier of the sensor.

10. The method as claimed in claim 7, wherein, if the coordinator does not include the database with the information on the sensor, an identifier list database of the sensor is constructed on the basis of the user identifier by the coordinator.

11. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein, in the forming of the pairing with the at least one searched sensor, the pairing is formed with respect to only some of the searched sensors.

12. The method as claimed in claim 11, wherein the some of the searched sensors are selected on the basis of an external input signal.

13. The method as claimed in claim 11, wherein the some of the searched sensors are selected on the basis of the intensity of signal received from the searched sensors.

14. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the association proxy comprises at least one of an identifier of the wireless communication apparatus, the user identifier, and information of each of the searched sensors.

15. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein, in the transmitting a request for the proxy authority, the wireless communication apparatus transmits an identifier of the wireless communication apparatus together.

16. The method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the information on the coordinator is information on the address where the data received from the at least one searched sensor is stored.

17. A communication system including at least one sensor that a user wears, a wireless communication apparatus and a coordinator,

the wireless communication apparatus comprising:

a communication unit configured to;

transmit a proxy authority request for proxy with respect to the at least one sensor and the coordinator to the coordinator, and

receive a proxy authority from the coordinator; and

a controller configured to;

create a user identifier corresponding to the user who wears the at least one sensor,

control the communication unit to search for the at least one sensor that the user wears to form a pairing with the at least one searched sensor,

transmit a request to the at least one searched sensor for association information for the association with the coordinator and the at least one searched sensor, and receive the association information, and

transmit a request to the coordinator for an association proxy for the association between the at least one searched sensor and the coordinator, and receive the association proxy comprising an identifier of the at least one searched sensor in response to the request for direct communication between the coordinator and the at least one searched sensor,

wherein the request for association information comprises information on the coordinator and the association information comprises the identifier of the at least one searched sensor.

18. The communication system as claimed in claim 17, wherein each of the at least one searched sensor further comprises a storage unit that stores the user identifier, and the controller controls the communication unit to transmit the user identifier to the at least one searched sensor.

19. The communication system as claimed in claim 17, wherein the controller creates the user identifier on the basis of an external input for the user identifier.

20. The communication system as claimed in claim 17, wherein the controller creates the user identifier on the basis of a RF signal received from an RF signal generating means located around the user.

21. The communication system as claimed in claim 17, wherein the controller controls the communication unit to form the pairing on the basis of the near-field communication (NFC) technique.

22. The communication system as claimed in claim 17, wherein, when the type of communication technique that the at least one searched sensor uses is identical, the controller controls the communication unit to sequentially form the pairing with respect to each of the at least one searched sensor.

23. The communication system as claimed in claim 17, wherein the association information further comprises information on the at least one searched sensor.

24. The communication system as claimed in claim 23, wherein the information on the at least one searched sensor is at least one of a serial number, a type, and a battery type of the at least one searched sensor.

25. The communication system as claimed in claim 23, wherein if the coordinator includes the database with the information on the at least one searched sensor, the association proxy comprises the identifier of the at least one searched sensor.

26. The communication system as claimed in claim 23, wherein if the coordinator does not include the database about the information of the at least one searched sensor, an identifier list database of the sensor is constructed on the basis of the user identifier by the coordinator.

27. The communication system as claimed in claim 17, wherein the controller controls the communication unit to form the pairing with respect to only some of the searched sensors.

28. The communication system as claimed in claim 27, wherein the controller selects the some of the searched sensors on the basis of an external input signal.

29. The communication system as claimed in claim 27, wherein the controller selects the some of the searched sensors on the basis of an intensity of signal received from the searched sensors.

30. The communication system as claimed in claim 17, wherein the association proxy comprises at least one of an identifier of the wireless communication apparatus, the user identifier, and information on each of the searched sensors.

31. The communication system as claimed in claim 17, wherein the controller controls the communication unit to transmit an identifier of the wireless communication apparatus together with the proxy authority request data.

32. The communication system as claimed in claim 17, wherein the information on the coordinator is information on the address where the data received from the at least one searched sensor is stored.

33. The communication system as claimed in claim 17, wherein the at least one sensor converts the third communication unit from a disabled state to an enabled state on the basis of the association information received from the wireless communication apparatus.