METHOD AND DEVICE FOR PAIRING A TERMINAL AND A USER ACCOUNT

• US 20140297877A1
• Filed: 11/29/2011
• Published: 10/02/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 12/03/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sagemcom Documents SAS (Sagemcom Holding SAS)
• Original Assignee: Sagemcom Documents SAS (Sagemcom Holding SAS)
• Inventors: Sabatier, Pierre, Sartori, David
• Granted Patent: US 9,497,273 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/227
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 61/2575 using address mapping retrieval, e.g. simple traversal of user datagram protocol through session traversal utilities for NAT [STUN]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/06 specially adapted for file transfer, e.g. file transfer protocol [FTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/1095 Replication or mirroring of data, e.g. scheduling or transport for data synchronisation between network nodes
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/142 Managing session states for stateless protocols; Signalling session states; State transitions; Keeping-state mechanisms

Abstract

A pairing must be performed between a terminal, referred to as terminal to be paired, and a user account for a service implemented by at least one device connected to a first communication network. The terminal to be paired is connected via a second communication network to a gateway which interconnects the first and second communication networks by performing an address translation by means of a public address routable on the first communication network. A pairing device performs steps: of obtaining (3.2) said public address; of detecting (3.4) an access to said user account, said access being performed from another terminal (1.2), distinct from the terminal to be paired; of obtaining (3.5) the address of said other terminal; of pairing (3.6) the terminal to be paired and said user account if the address of said other terminal coincides with said public address.

Claims

1. A method for pairing a terminal, referred to as terminal to be paired, and a user account for a service implemented by at least one device connected to a first communication network, said terminal to be paired being connected via a second communication network to a gateway that interconnects the first and second communication networks by performed an address translation by means of a public address routable over the first communication network, wherein said device performs steps of:

obtaining said public address;

detecting an access to said user account, said access being performed from another terminal, distinct from the terminal to be paired;

obtaining the address of said other terminal routable over said first communication network; and

pairing the terminal to be paired and said user account, when the address of said other terminal coincides with said obtained public address.

2. The pairing method according to claim 1, wherein the step of obtaining said public address is performed by transmitting by said terminal to be paired said public address in association with an identifier of said terminal to be paired.

3. The pairing method according to claim 2, wherein said method comprises a step of obtaining, performed by said terminal to be paired, said public address from a device connected to said first communication network.

4. The pairing method according to claim 1, wherein the pairing step is performed by a pairing device, wherein the step of detecting an access to said user account consists of notifying said access by a server to said pairing device, and wherein said pairing method further comprises a step of transmitting, performed by said server, an identifier of said user account and said address of said other terminal.

5. The pairing method according to claim 4, wherein the pairing step comprises a step of seeking, among a set of public addresses stored by said pairing device and associated respectively with identifiers of terminals to be paired, said address of said other terminal.

6. The pairing method according to claim 1, wherein the step of detecting an access to said user account consists of detecting a registration of the user account to said service.

7. A pairing device adapted to pair a terminal, referred to as terminal to be paired, and a user account for a service, said pairing device being connected to a first communication network, said terminal to be paired being connected via a second communication network to a gateway that interconnects the first and second communication networks by performing an address translation by means of a public address routable over the first communication network, wherein said pairing device comprises:

means for obtaining said public address;

means for obtaining the address, routable over said first communication network, of another terminal, distinct from the terminal to be paired, from which an access is performed to said user account; and

pairing means for pairing the terminal to be paired and said user account, said pairing means being implemented when the address of said other terminal coincides with said obtained public address.

8. A system comprising a pairing device adapted to pair a terminal, referred to as terminal to be paired, and a user account for a service, said pairing device being connected to a first communication network, said terminal to be paired being connected via a second communication network to a gateway that interconnects the first and second communication networks by performing an address translation by means of a public address routable over the first communication network, wherein said pairing device comprises:

means for obtaining said public address;

means for obtaining the address, routable over said first communication network, of another terminal, distinct from the terminal to be paired, from which an access is performed to said user account; and

pairing means for pairing the terminal to be paired and said user account, said pairing means being implemented when the address of said other terminal coincides with said obtained public address.

and wherein said system further comprises means for detecting the access to said user account performed from said other terminal, wherein said pairing device is

9. A terminal, referred to as terminal to be paired, that is to be the subject of a pairing with a user account for a service used by at least one device connected to a first communication network, said terminal to be paired also being intended to be connected via a second communication network to a gateway that interconnects the first and second communication networks by performing an address translation by means of a public address routable over the first communication network, the terminal to be paired comprising means for transmitting said public address in association with an identifier of said terminal to be paired, wherein said terminal comprises means for initiating a phase of pairing between said terminal to be paired and said user account.

10. The terminal according to claim 9, wherein said terminal comprises means for obtaining said public address from a device connected to said first communication network.

11. (canceled)

12. Storage means storing a computer program comprising instructions for implementing, by a device using a service and when said program is executed by a processor of said device, a method for pairing a terminal, referred to as terminal to be paired, and a user account for a service implemented by at least one device connected to a first communication network, said terminal to be paired being connected via a second communication network to a gateway that interconnects the first and second communication networks by performed an address translation by means of a public address routable over the first communication network, wherein said method comprises steps of:

obtaining said public address;

detecting an access to said user account, said access being performed from another terminal, distinct from the terminal to be paired;

obtaining the address of said other terminal routable over said first communication network; and

pairing the terminal to be paired and said user account, when the address of said other terminal coincides with said obtained public address.