Electronic apparatus and control method thereof

• US 9,900,773 B2
• Filed: 09/30/2016
• Issued: 02/20/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 12/05/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Bae, Ju-han, Kang, Yong-jin
• Primary Examiner(s): Sarwar, Babar
• Application Number:
  US15/281,854
• Publication Number:
  US 20170019790A1
• Time in Patent Office: 508 Days
• Field of Search: 455 42, 455411, 4554121-4142, 455418-4221, 455 411- 412, 4554561, 4554521, 455450, 4554351, 4554352, 370328-332, 370338, 370348, 370341
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/2816 Controlling appliance services of a home automation network by calling their functionalities arrangements in telecontrol or telemetry systems for selectively calling a substation from a main station; in which substation desired apparatus is selected for applying a control signal thereto or for obtaining measured values therefrom H04Q9/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 2012/2849 Audio/video appliances
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/04 Key management, e.g. using generic bootstrapping architecture [GBA]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/06 Authentication
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/50 Secure pairing of devices
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/63 Location-dependent; Proximity-dependent
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 60/04 using triggered events
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 84/12 WLAN [Wireless Local Area Networks]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/08 Access point devices

Abstract

An electronic apparatus and a control method thereof are disclosed. The electronic apparatus according includes: a first communicator configured to communicate with an authentication terminal device; a second communicator configured to communicate with a new terminal device that is not registered with an access point (AP); a storage configured to store authentication information for accessing the AP; and a controller configured to control the second communicator to transmit the authentication information that is stored in the storage to the new terminal device in response to receiving terminal information of the new terminal device from the authentication terminal device through the first communicator.

Claims

1. An audio output apparatus comprising:

a communicator circuit configured to perform data communications with at least one terminal device registered with an access point (AP);

a memory configured to store information of the audio output apparatus; and

a controller configured to, in response to a request for the information of the audio output apparatus from a first terminal device, control the communication circuit to transmit the stored information of the audio output apparatus to the first terminal device, and in response to authentication information for AP registration being received from a second terminal device, perform authentication processing for the AP registration based on the received authentication information.

2. The apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the communicator circuit comprises:

a first communicator circuit configured to perform data communication with at least one terminal device located within a preset distance; and

a second communicator circuit configured to perform data communication with the AP and the at least one terminal device registered with the AP.

3. The apparatus as claimed in claim 2, wherein:

the controller is configured to control the second communicator circuit to, in response to the authentication information being received from the second terminal device through the first communicator circuit, transmit a request for the AP registration, and in response to a request for the authentication information from the AP, transmit the authentication information to the AP; and

the AP performs registering of the audio output apparatus according to whether the authentication information received from the audio output apparatus is the same as prestored authentication information.

4. The apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the authentication information includes subsystem identification (SSID) and key information for the AP registration.

5. The apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the first terminal device, in response to the information of the audio output apparatus being received from the audio output apparatus, transmits the information of the audio output apparatus to a terminal device selected by a user from among a plurality of terminal devices registered with the AP.

6. The apparatus as claimed in claim 5, wherein the second terminal device transmits the authentication information for the AP registration prestored in the second terminal device to the audio output apparatus based on the information of the audio output apparatus received from the first terminal device.

13. The apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein the information of the audio output apparatus includes at least one of address information, identification information and product information of the audio output apparatus.

7. A method for controlling an audio output apparatus, the method comprising:

in response to a request for information of the audio output apparatus from a first terminal device registered with an access point (AP), transmitting prestored information of the audio output apparatus to the first terminal device;

receiving authentication information for AP registration prestored in a second terminal device from the second terminal device registered with the AP; and

performing an authentication process for the AP registration based on the received authentication information.

8. The method as claimed in claim 7, further comprising:

performing data communications with at least one terminal device located within a preset distance through a first communicator of the audio output apparatus; and

performing data communications with the AP and at least one terminal device registered with the AP through a second communicator of the audio output apparatus.

9. The method as claimed in claim 8, wherein the performing the authentication process comprises:

in response to the authentication information being received from the second terminal device, transmitting a request for the AP registration through the second communicator; and

in response to a request for the authentication information from the AP, transmitting the authentication information to the AP through the second communicator,

wherein the AP performs registering of the audio output apparatus according to whether the authentication information received from the audio output apparatus is the same as prestored authentication information.

10. The method as claimed in claim 7, wherein the authentication information includes subsystem identification (SSID) and key information for the AP registration.

11. The method as claimed in claim 7, wherein the first terminal device, in response to the information of the audio output apparatus being received from the audio output apparatus, transmits the information of the audio output apparatus to a terminal device selected by a user from among a plurality of terminal devices registered with the AP.

12. The method as claimed in claim 11, wherein the second terminal device transmits the authentication information for the AP registration prestored in the second terminal device to the audio output apparatus based on the information of the audio output apparatus received from the first terminal device.

14. The method as claimed in claim 7, wherein the information of the audio output apparatus includes at least one of address information, identification information and product information of the audio output apparatus.