Method and apparatus for performing pairing between coordinator and device in network, method and apparatus for performing pairing between devices, network system including the coordinator and the devices

• US 9,439,229 B2
• Filed: 05/06/2011
• Issued: 09/06/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 05/07/2010
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Jung, Soo-yeon, Jun, Hae-young, Kwon, Hyuk-choon, Kim, Ho-dong
• Primary Examiner(s): Vu, Huy D
• Assistant Examiner(s): CUNNINGHAM, KEVIN M
• Application Number:
  US13/102,759
• Publication Number:
  US 20110274098A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,950 Days
• Field of Search: 370/338
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 48/08 Access restriction or access information delivery, e.g. discovery data delivery signalling during connection H04W76/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 76/14 Direct-mode setup
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/005 Discovery of network devices, e.g. terminals

Abstract

Provided are methods and apparatuses for performing pairing. A method of performing pairing between a coordinator that belongs to a predetermined network and a device that does not belong to any network includes: broadcasting a first pairing information indicating that the coordinator is a device to perform pairing, or a beacon comprising the first pairing information; and receiving, from the device, second pairing information indicating that the device is a peer device to perform pairing, wherein the device transmits the second pairing information to the coordinator after the device associates with the predetermined network or while the device associates with the predetermined network.

Claims

1. A method of performing pairing between a first device that belongs to a first network and a second device that does not belong to any network, the method comprising:

receiving, by a coordinator of the first network, first pairing information from the first device;

broadcasting, by the coordinator of the first network, the first pairing information;

scanning, by the coordinator of the first network, for a message from the second device for a second critical time from the time when a first critical time has elapsed from the time when the coordinator of the first network has broadcasted the first pairing information; and

if the coordinator of the first network does not receive the message from the second device, broadcasting, by the coordinator of the first network, the first pairing information and a failure message, wherein the first device becomes a coordinator of a second network after establishing the second network at a second channel different from a first channel that communicates with the coordinator of the first network.

2. A network system comprising a first device that belongs to a first network and a second device that does not belong to any network and performing pairing between the first device and the second device, the network system comprising:

a first device which transmits, to a coordinator of the first network, first pairing information;

a second device which transmits, to the first device, second pairing information only after the first device becomes a coordinator of a second network and broadcasts the first pairing information; and

the coordinator of the first network which broadcasts the first pairing information if the coordinator receives the first pairing information from the first device, and scans for a message from the second device for a second critical time from the time when a first critical time has elapsed from the time when the coordinator of the first network has broadcasted the first pairing information, wherein, if the coordinator of the first network does not receive the message from the second device by the scanning of the message, the coordinator of the first network broadcasts the first pairing information and a failure message, and if the first device receives the first pairing information and the failure message, the first device becomes a coordinator of a second network after establishing the second network at a second channel different from a first channel that communicates with the coordinator of the first network.

3. The network system of claim 2, the first device broadcasts the first pairing information indicating that the first device is a device to perform pairing.

4. A method of performing pairing between a first device that belongs to a first network and a second device that does not belong to any network, the method comprising:

transmitting, by the first device, first pairing information to a coordinator of the first network;

receiving, by the first device, the first pairing information and a failure message which are broadcasted from the coordinator of the first network, if the coordinator of the first network does not receive a message from the second device for a second critical time from the time when a first critical time has elapsed from the time when the coordinator of the first network has broadcasted the first pairing information; and

if the first device receives the first pairing information and the failure message, becoming, by the first device, a coordinator of a second network after establishing the second network at a second channel different from a first channel that communicates with the coordinator of the first network.

5. A coordinator of a first network comprising:

a receiver configured to receive, from a first device, first pairing information; and

a transmitter configured to broadcast the first pairing information,

wherein the receiver is further configured to scan a message from a second device, and

the transmitter is further configured to, if the receiver does not receive the message from the second device for a second critical time from the time when a first critical time has elapsed from the time when the coordinator of the first network has broadcasted the first pairing information, broadcast the first pairing information and a failure message, wherein the first device becomes a coordinator of a second network after establishing the second network at a second channel different from a first channel that communicates with the coordinator of the first network.