Method for establishing wireless connection for application of user equipment

• US 10,945,130 B2
• Filed: 06/11/2018
• Issued: 03/09/2021
• Est. Priority Date: 12/14/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Shanghai Shangwang Network Technology Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Shanghai Lianshang Network Technology Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: Zhang, FaYou, Fang, Yue
• Primary Examiner(s): Kizou, Hassan
• Assistant Examiner(s): Chowdhury, Mahbubul Bar
• Application Number:
  US16/005,443
• Publication Number:
  US 20180295658A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,002 Days
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/06 Authentication
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 48/16 Discovering, processing access restriction or access information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 48/20 Selecting an access point
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 76/10 Connection setup

Abstract

Provided are a method and an apparatus for establishing a wireless connection for an application of a user equipment. In comparison with the prior art, the present application is applied to detect whether a first application has a communication requirement, and call a corresponding third-party connection module to execute a wireless connection operation when there is a communication requirement. The wireless connection operation comprises: sending a wireless access point information request to a corresponding network equipment; receiving one or more pieces of wireless access point information sent by the network equipment based on the wireless access information request; and establishing a wireless connection between the user equipment and the corresponding wireless access point according to at least one piece of information in the one or more pieces of wireless access point information so as to realize the communication requirement of the first application.

Claims

1. A method for establishing a wireless connection for application of a user equipment, comprising:

detecting whether a first application on the user equipment comprises a communication requirement; and

performing the wireless connection by activating a third party connection module when the first application comprises the communication requirement;

wherein the third party connection module includes connection framework information, and the connection framework information is generated based on a security policy of a wireless access point;

wireless access point information includes connection verification information corresponding to the wireless access point, and the connection verification information is generated based on security verification information of the wireless access point;

wherein if the third party connection module already exists in the user equipment, the user equipment directly loads the third party connection module to establish the wireless connection;

if the third party connection module does not exist in the user equipment, the third party connection module will be provided by a corresponding network equipment;

wherein the performing step comprises;

transmitting a request of the wireless access point information to the network equipment;

wherein the network equipment stores a plurality of the wireless access point information;

receiving access information of one or multiple wireless access points transmitted by the network equipment in response to the request; and

establishing the wireless connection between the user equipment and one of the wireless access points in response to the connection verification information and the connection framework information of at least one of the one or multiple wireless access points.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the performing step further comprises, when the first application comprises the communication requirement, real-time loading the third party connection module.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the request comprises application-related information of the first application, and the access information matches the application-related information.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the application-related information comprises application type information of the first application, or communication type information associated with the communication requirement of the first application.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the application type information or the communication type information comprises a security priority type, a bandwidth priority type, or a connection success rate priority type.

6. The method of claim 3, wherein the performing step further comprises, when the first application comprises the communication requirement, real-time loading the third party connection module.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the establishing the wireless connection between the user equipment and one of the wireless access points in response to the connection verification information and the connection framework information of at least one of the one or multiple wireless access points comprises:

transmitting an access information request of a target access point to the network equipment in response to a selection operation of the user to the target access point; and

establishing the wireless connection between the user equipment and the target access point in response to the access information of the target access point returning from the network equipment.