Judgment system and method based on WiFi environment for facilitating usage of electronic device

• US 9,648,551 B2
• Filed: 12/29/2014
• Issued: 05/09/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 03/10/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Chiun Mai Communication Systems, Inc. (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Chiun Mai Communication Systems, Inc. (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: Chung, Yu-An
• Primary Examiner(s): Sheikh, Ayaz
• Assistant Examiner(s): Hampton, Tarrell
• Application Number:
  US14/584,575
• Publication Number:
  US 20150257087A1
• Time in Patent Office: 862 Days
• Field of Search: None
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 48/16 Discovering, processing access restriction or access information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/005 Discovery of network devices, e.g. terminals

Abstract

An electronic device having a judging system to facilitate an operation of the electronic device. The judging system includes a searching module for searching MAC addresses of WiFi devices in a presently working environment. A storing module stores the MAC addresses in a data base. A comparing module judges whether the present working environment is a previously encountered environment by comparing the MAC addresses for the present working environment with MAC addresses for the previously encountered environment which have been stored in the data base. A processing module has the electronic device to perform a predetermined function if the present working environment is judged as the previously encountered environment.

Claims

1. An electronic device comprising:

a judgment system based on a WiFi environment, the judgement system comprising;

a searching module for searching media access control (MAC) addresses of WiFi devices of a present working environment in which the electronic device is located;

a storing module for storing MAC addresses of WiFi devices searched by the searching module in a database;

a comparing module for determining whether the present working environment is one of previously encountered environments based on a comparison between the MAC addresses of WiFi device searched by the searching module and MAC addresses of the previously encountered environments stored in the database; and

a processing module for enabling the electronic device to perform a predetermined function when the present working environment is determined to be one of the previously encountered environments; and

a memory for storing the judgment system therein;

a processor for executing the judgment system; and

a display for displaying operations of the predetermined function;

wherein the predetermined function includes presenting at least a computer icon in the display of the electronic device, the at least a computer icon is shown in a to-be-unlocked screen of the electronic device;

wherein when the at least a computer icon is activated, the electronic device is unlocked and directly enters a main page of a software corresponding to the at least a computer icon.

2. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein the database is a WMG (Wi-Fi MAC address group) data list.

3. The electronic device of claim 2, wherein the WMG data list comprises a column for temporarily storing the MAC addresses of WiFi devices searched by the searching module in the present working environment, and at least a column for permanently storing the MAC addresses of WiFi device searched by the searching module in the previously encountered environment.

4. The electronic device of claim 3, wherein the previously encountered environment is established when the electronic device has stayed in the previously encountered environment longer than a predetermined period of time.

5. The electronic device of claim 4, wherein the predetermined period of time is two hours.

6. The electronic device of claim 3, wherein when a staying period of time of the electronic device in the present working environment is longer than a predetermined period of time and the present working environment is not judged as the previously encountered environment, the temporarily stored MAC addresses are translated into permanently stored MAC addresses in the database.

7. The electronic device of claim 6, wherein the predetermined period of time is two hours.

8. The electronic device of claim 1, wherein the at least a computer icon is activated by pressing a part of the display at which at least a computer icon is located.

9. A method for facilitating an operation of an electronic device, comprising:

searching, by a searching module of the electronic device, MAC addresses of WiFi devices in a present working environment that the electronic device is located in;

storing in a database, by a storing module of the electronic device, the MAC addresses of the WiFi devices searched by the searching module in the present working environment;

comparing, by a comparing module of the electronic device, the MAC addresses of WiFi devices stored in the database with MAC addresses of previously encountered environments stored in the database to determine whether the present working environment is one of the previously encountered environments; and

performing, by a processing module of the electronic device, a predetermined function when the present working environment is determined to be one of the previously encountered environments;

wherein the predetermined function comprises showing at least a computer icon in a display of electronic device, the computer icon is shown in a to-be-unlocked screen of the electronic device;

wherein by activating the at least a computer icon, the electronic device is unlocked and a software corresponding to the computer icon is executed.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein the display of the electronic device is a touch panel, and activation of the computer icon is achieved by pressing a part of the touch panel in which the computer icon is located.

11. The method of claim 9, wherein the software comprises one of an application and a website.

12. The method of claim 9, wherein the MAC addresses of WiFi devices searched by the searching module are temporarily stored in the database when the electronically is initially located in the present working environment and wherein when a staying period of time of the electronic device in the present working environment as counted by the timing module has reached a predetermined period of time, the temporarily stored MAC addresses are translated into permanently stored MAC addresses in the database.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein information of most used software during operation of the electronic device which has stayed in the present working environment for the predetermined period of time is permanently stored in the database with the permanently stored MAC addresses related to the present working environment.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein the predetermined period of time is two hours.

15. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having stored therein instructions which, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to perform operations comprising:

searching, by a searching module of an electronic device, MAC addresses of WiFi devices in a present working environment that the electronic device is located in;

storing in a database, by a storing module of the electronic device, the MAC addresses of the WiFi devices searched by the searching module in the present working environment;

comparing, by a comparing module of the electronic device, the MAC addresses of the WiFi devices stored in the database with MAC addresses of previously encountered environments to determine whether the present working environment is one of the previously encountered environments; and

performing, by a processing module of the electronic device, a predetermined function when the present working environment is determined to be one of the previously encountered environments;

wherein the predetermined function comprises showing at least a computer icon in a display of electronic device, the computer icon is shown in a to-be-unlocked screen of the electronic device;

wherein by activating the at least a computer icon, the electronic device is unlocked and a software corresponding to the computer icon is executed.