Mobile device, storage medium, and method for automatically connecting the mobile device to server

• US 8,918,489 B2
• Filed: 08/21/2012
• Issued: 12/23/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 02/16/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: FIH (Hong Kong) Limited (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: FIH (Hong Kong) Limited (Hon Hai Precision Industry Co., Ltd.)
• Inventors: Hsu, Shih-Wei
• Primary Examiner(s): Barry, Lance L
• Application Number:
  US13/591,192
• Publication Number:
  US 20130219032A1
• Time in Patent Office: 854 Days
• Field of Search: 709/221, 709227-228, 709/230
• US Class Current: 709/221
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/0264 by selectively disabling software applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 52/0274 by switching on or off the equipment or parts thereof
• CPC Class Codes: Y02D 30/70 in wireless communication networks

Abstract

In a method for automatically connecting a mobile device to a server, an update command is periodically sent to a first server wirelessly connected to the mobile device after the mobile device enters a sleep mode. The update command requires a network status of the first server. The mobile device is waken when the network status is not acquired within a predetermined time period. Alternate servers are searched for to generate a list of server names. A target server is selected from the list, and a connection command is sent to the target server for establishing a connection between the mobile device and the target server. Network setting information is acquired from the target server. The connection between the mobile device and the target server is established according to the network setting information.

Claims

1. A mobile device, comprising:

at least one processor; and

a storage system that stores one or more programs, which when executed by the at least one processor, cause the at least one processor to;

periodically send an update command to a first server wirelessly connected to the mobile device after the mobile device enters a sleep mode, the update command controlling the first server to transmit a network status of the first server to the mobile device;

wake up the mobile device when the network status of the first server is not acquired within a predetermined time period;

search alternate servers in a wireless network, and generate a server list comprising names of all of the alternate servers, each of the alternate servers having a signal coverage range that covers a location of the mobile device;

select a target server from the server list, and send a connection command to the target server to request a connection between the mobile device and the target server;

acquire network setting information transmitted from the target server after the target server receives the connection command, and establish the connection between the mobile device and the target server according to the network setting information.

2. The mobile device of claim 1, wherein the network status comprises an Internet Protocol (IP) address of the first server and a period of the IP address.

3. The mobile device of claim 1, wherein the mobile device is allowed to enter the sleep mode when the search module does not find the alternate servers.

4. The mobile device of claim 1, wherein the mobile device is allowed to enter the sleep mode when the network setting information is acquired from the target server within the predetermined time period.

5. A method for automatically connecting a mobile device to a server, the method comprising:

(a) sending an update command to a first server wirelessly connected to the mobile device after the mobile device enters a sleep mode, the update command controlling the first server to transmit a network status of the first server to the mobile device;

(b) waking up the mobile device when the network status of the first server is not acquired within a predetermined time period;

(c) searching for alternate servers in a wireless network, and generating a server list comprising names of all of the alternate servers, each of the alternate servers having a signal coverage range that covers a location of the mobile device;

(d) automatically selecting a target server from the server list, and sending a connection command to the target server to request a connection between the mobile device and the target server;

(e) acquiring network setting information transmitted from the target server after the target server receives the connection command, and establishing the connection between the mobile device and the target server according to the network setting information.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the network status comprises an Internet Protocol (IP) address of the first server and a period of the IP address.

7. The method of claim 5, wherein the mobile device is allowed to enter the sleep mode when none of the alternate servers is found.

8. The method of claim 5, wherein the mobile device is allowed to enter the sleep mode when the network setting information is acquired from the target server within the predetermined time period.

9. A non-transitory storage medium storing a set of instructions, the set of instructions capable of being executed by a processor of a mobile device, causes the processor to execute a method for automatically connecting the mobile device to a server, the method comprising:

(a) sending an update command to a first server wirelessly connected to the mobile device after the mobile device enters a sleep mode, wherein the update command controlling the first server to transmit a network status of the first server to the mobile device;

(b) waking up the mobile device when the network status of the first server is not acquired within a predetermined time period;

(c) searching for alternate servers in a wireless network, and generating a server list comprising names of all of the alternate servers, each of the alternate servers having a signal coverage range that covers a location of the mobile device;

(d) automatically selecting a target server from the server list, and sending a connection command to the target server to request a connection between the mobile device and the target server;

(e) acquiring network setting information transmitted from the target server after the target server receives the connection command, and establishing the connection between the mobile device and the target server according to the network setting information.

10. The storage medium of claim 9, wherein the network status comprises an Internet Protocol (IP) address of the first server and a period of the IP address.

11. The storage medium of claim 9, wherein the mobile device is allowed to enter the sleep mode when none of the alternate servers is found.

12. The storage medium of claim 9, wherein the mobile device is allowed to enter the sleep mode when the network setting information is acquired from the target server within the predetermined time period.