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Communications terminal and system and rights management method

  • US 9,705,883 B2
  • Filed: 06/19/2013
  • Issued: 07/11/2017
  • Est. Priority Date: 11/15/2012
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method for authorization management, comprising:

  • receiving, by a communication User Equipment (UE), a WiFi authentication request sent by a mobile UE requesting access of the communication UE, the WiFi authentication request comprising unique identification information for identifying a current user of the mobile UE requesting access, the communication UE being a WiFi hot spot; and

    authenticating, by the communication UE, the mobile UE requesting access according to the WiFi authentication request and an authorized list, the authorized list comprising unique identification information for identifying a mobile UE user authorized to access the communication UE,wherein the unique identification information of a user is a card number of a SIM card or a USIM card of the user, or an Email account bound to a mobile UE of the user,wherein the method further comprises;

    selecting contact information from an address book of the communication UE and importing the selected contact information to the authorized list, or adding contact information to the authorized list in a manual mode, the contact information comprising a name of a contact and unique identification information of the contact;

    setting priorities in accessing the communication UE respectively for contacts in the authorized list,wherein the method further comprises;

    after the communication UE authenticates the mobile UE requesting access according to the WiFi authentication request and the authorized list,determining, by the communication UE, whether a number of mobile UEs currently accessing the communication UE has reached an allowed maximal number of mobile UEs accessing the communication UE;

    when the number of mobile UEs currently accessing the communication UE has not reached the allowed maximal number of mobile UEs accessing the communication UE, connecting, by the communication UE, to the mobile UE requesting access according to a current Media Access Control (MAC) address of the mobile UE requesting access;

    when the number of mobile UEs currently accessing the communication UE has reached the allowed maximal number of mobile UEs accessing the communication UE, determining, by the communication UE according to the priorities in accessing the communication UE respectively for the contacts in the authorized list, whether a priority corresponding to the mobile UE requesting access is higher than a priority corresponding to a mobile UE currently accessing the communication UE;

    when there is a mobile UE currently accessing the communication UE with a priority lower than the priority corresponding to the mobile UE requesting access, disconnecting the mobile UE currently accessing the communication UE with the low priority, and connecting to the mobile UE requesting access;

    when there is no mobile UE currently accessing the communication UE with a priority lower than the priority corresponding to the mobile UE requesting access, refusing access by the mobile UE requesting access.

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