Device, system, method and computer readable medium for pairing of devices in a short distance wireless network

• US 6,845,097 B2
• Filed: 11/21/2001
• Issued: 01/18/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 11/21/2001
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: FCO V CLO Transferor LLC (SoftBank Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: IXI Mobile (R&D) Ltd. (IXI Mobile, Inc.)
• Inventors: Haller, Amit, Fornell, Peter, Itzchak, Avraham, Haparnas, Ziv, Glick, Amir
• Primary Examiner(s): Chin, Wellington
• Assistant Examiner(s): SCHULTZ, WILLIAM C
• Application Number:
  US09/990,424
• Publication Number:
  US 20030095521A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,154 Days
• Field of Search: 370352-430, 370/338, 370/389, 370/462, 370/522
• US Class Current: 370/352
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72412 using two-way short-range wireless interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/02 including a Bluetooth interface
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 28/18 Negotiating wireless communication parameters
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 48/08 Access restriction or access information delivery, e.g. discovery data delivery signalling during connection H04W76/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 48/16 Discovering, processing access restriction or access information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/26 Network addressing or numbering for mobility support
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 84/10 Small scale networks; Flat hierarchical networks

Abstract

A device, a system, a method and a computer readable medium allowing a user to efficiently and easily add/remove or pair a processing device to a short distance wireless network is provided according to embodiments of the present invention. A user enters a PIN into a device. The device is then automatically paired to another device without any further user intervention to form a short distance wireless network in an embodiment of the present invention. A third party such as a manufacturer, reseller or telecommunication provider enables a processing device to be added to the short distance wireless network by generating a pairing message over the Internet or a SMS in an embodiment of the present invention. A user is able to know when a PIN code is invalid by a device performing error detection in another embodiment of the present invention. In still another embodiment of the present invention, the device also stores an error correction software component for correcting an erroneously inputted PIN.

Claims

1. A system forming a short distance wireless network, comprising:

a first device to generate a first short-range radio signal including an identification symbol; and

,

a second device to receive the first short-range signal and to generate a second short-range radio signal responsive to the second device generating a first cellular signal including the identification symbol and receiving a second cellular signal including a pairing message, wherein the pairing message is received from a Short Message Service (“

SMS”

).

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the pairing message is received from a wide area network.

3. A system for forming a short distance wireless network, comprising:

a first device to generate a first short-range radio signal including an identification symbol; and

,

a second device to receive the first short-range radio signal and to generate a second short-range radio signal responsive to the second device generating a first cellular signal including the identification symbol and receiving a second cellular signal including a pairing message, wherein the pairing message includes a confirmation message.

4. A system for forming a short distance wireless network, comprising:

a first device to generate a first short-range radio signal including an identification symbol;

a second device to receive the first short-range radio signal and to generate a second short-range radio signal responsive to the second device generating a first cellular signal including the identification symbol and receiving a second cellular signal including a pairing message,

wherein the pairing message includes a confirmation message,

wherein the first device prevents communication between the first and second devices responsive to t remove message; and

,

a processing device, in a wide area network, to generate the pairing message responsive to a user input, wherein the processing device is a telecommunication provider processing device.

5. A system for forming a short distance wireless network, comprising:

a first device to generate a first short-range radio signal including an identification symbol;

a second device to receive the first short-range radio signal and to generate a second short-range radio signal responsive to the second device generating a first cellular signal including the identification symbol and receiving a second cellular signal including a pairing message,

wherein the pairing message includes a confirmation message,

wherein the first device prevents communication between the first and second devices responsive to a remove message; and

,

a processing device, in a wide area network, to generate the pairing message responsive to a user input, wherein the processing device is a seller processing device.

6. A system for forming a short distance wireless network, comprising:

a first device to generate a first short-range radio signal including an identification symbol;

a second device to receive the first short-range radio signal and to generate a second short-range radio signal responsive to the second device generating a first cellular signal including the identification symbol and receiving a second cellular signal including a pairing message,

wherein the pairing message includes a confirmation message,

wherein the first device prevents communication between the first and second devices responsive to remove message; and

,

a processing device, in a wide area network, to generate the pairing message responsive to a user input, wherein the processing device is a processing device of a user of the second device.

7. A system for forming a short distance wireless network, comprising:

a first device to generate a first short-range radio signal including an identification symbol; and

,

a second device to receive the first short-range radio signal and to generate a second short-range radio signal responsive to the second device generating a first cellular signal including the identification symbol and receiving a second cellular signal including a pairing message, wherein the pairing message includes a digital signature.

8. A method for adding a first device to a short distance wireless network having a second device, comprising the steps of:

providing an identification symbol to the first device;

generating a short-range radio signal containing the identification symbol to the second device from the first device;

providing a pairing messages to the second device;

forming a communication channel between the first device and the second device responsive to the identification symbol and the pairing message; and

,

wherein the pairing message is generated in response to a user input at a web page.

9. A method for adding a first device to a short distance wireless network having a second device, comprising the steps of:

providing a personal identification symbol to the first device;

generating a short-range radio signal containing the personal identification symbol to the second device form the first device;

forming a short-range radio communication channel between the first device and the second device responsive to the personal identification symbol;

forming a cellular communication channel between the second device and a wide area network;

detecting an error in the personal identification symbol; and

,

notifying a user of an invalidity of the personal identification symbol.

10. A method for adding a first device to a short distance wireless network having a second device, comprising the steps of:

providing an identification symbol to the first device;

generating a short-range radio signal containing the identification symbol to the second device from the first device;

forming a short-range radio communication channel between the first device and the second device responsive the identification symbol; and

,

correcting an error in the personal identification symbol.

11. An article of manufacture, including a computer readable medium, comprising:

a short-range radio software component to generate a short-range radio signal in a short distance wireless network;

a cellular software component to generate cellular signals in wide area network;

a pairing software component to add a device to the short distance wireless network in response to an identification symbol; and

,

a software component to decrypt a pairing message.

12. An article of manufacture, including a computer readable medium, comprising:

a short-range radio software component to generate a short-range radio signal in a short distance wireless network;

a cellular software component to generate cellular signals in a wide area network;

a pairing software component to add a device to the short distance wireless network in response to an identification symbol; and

,

a software component to detect an erroneously entered identification symbol.

13. The article of manufacture of claim 12, wherein the software component to detect the erroneously entered identification symbol includes a software component to correct the erroneously entered identification symbol.