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- the invention relates to short-range wireless communication systems where beacon frames are broadcast and which include user-operated short-range wireless terminals. More specifically, the invention relates to control of a wireless peripheral device in such a system.
- Short-range wireless systems have a typical range of one hundred meters or less. They often combine with systems wired to the Internet to provide communication over long distances.
- the category of short-range wireless systems includes wireless personal area networks (PANs) and wireless local area networks (WLANs). They have the common feature of operating in unlicensed portions of the radio spectrum, usually either in the 2.4 GHz Industrial, Scientific, and Medical (ISM) band or in the 5 GHz unlicensed band.
- PANs personal area networks
- WLANs wireless local area networks
- Wireless personal area networks use low cost, low power wireless devices that have a typical range of about ten meters.
- the best-known example of wireless personal area network technology is Bluetooth, which uses the 2.4 GHz ISM band. It provides a peak air link speed of one Mbps, and power consumption low enough for use in personal, portable electronics such as PDAs and mobile phones.
- Wireless local area networks generally operate at higher peak speeds of 10 to 100 Mbps and have a longer range, which requires greater power consumption.
- Wireless LAN systems are typically extensions of a wired network, providing mobile users with wireless access to the wired network.
- wireless local area network technology examples include the IEEE 802.11a, which is designed for the 5 GHz unlicensed band, and uses orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) to deliver up to 54 Mbps data rates; the 802.11 b, which is designed for the 2.4 GHz ISM band and uses direct sequence spread spectrum (DSSS) to deliver up to 11 Mbps data rates; and the HlPERLAN Standard, which is designed to operate in the 5 GHz unlicensed band.
- OFDM orthogonal frequency division multiplexing
- DSSS direct sequence spread spectrum
- An ad-hoc network is formed by two or more independent mobile terminals without the services of a base station, i.e. in an ad-hoc network the terminals communicate on a peer-to-peer basis.
- An ad-hoc network is normally formed for temporary purposes.
- the infrastructure network comprises one or more wireless base stations, called access points, which form part of the wired infrastructure. In a typical network of this type, all traffic goes through the access points, regardless of whether the traffic is between two terminals or a terminal and the wired network, i.e. the mobile terminals do not communicate on a peer-to-peer basis.
- the mobile terminals are provided with wireless LAN cards, whereby they can access the wired network or set up an ad-hoc network.
- an access point and at least one terminal is said to form a Basic Serving Set (BSS), while an ad-hoc network is also termed an Independent BSS (IBSS).
- BSS Basic Serving Set
- IBSS Independent BSS
- Wireless networked solutions are becoming more popular in various environments, and the market of wireless consumer devices is expected to grow rapidly within the next few years. Many of these devices will not have a separate user interface, for example, but are instead controlled wirelessly through a user-operated device.
- the user-operated devices will typically be small devices with a limited amount of memory, which means that large amounts of data will be stored on separate disks or in other storage devices wirelessly connected to the user-operated devices.
- the user- operated controlling devices are also termed host devices, while the devices controlled by the host devices are termed peripheral devices.
- a peripheral device here refers to a device that is not part of a user-operated short-range wireless terminal but controllable by that terminal.
- the present invention seeks to accomplish a solution by means of which the above drawbacks related to wireless peripheral devices may be alleviated.
- the present invention seeks to devise a new mechanism for using services provided by a network in an environment including user-operated short-range wireless terminals (i.e. host devices) and short-range wireless peripheral devices, such as wireless storage units controllable by the user-operated terminals.
- user-operated short-range wireless terminals i.e. host devices
- short-range wireless peripheral devices such as wireless storage units controllable by the user-operated terminals.
- a peripheral device is commanded to follow a host device to the network accessed by the host device.
- the host device may then select a service, such as a download, from the network, and as soon as it knows the network address of the peripheral device, it may control a service delivery to take place between the accessed network and the peripheral device.
- a method for controlling a short-range wireless peripheral device includes the steps of informing a wireless peripheral device that an infrastructure network providing services is to be accessed, the informing step being initiated from a wireless host device, establishing, in response to the informing step, a connection between the infrastructure network and the wireless peripheral device, and selecting a service from the infrastructure network, the selecting step being performed at the wireless host device.
- the method further includes the steps of indicating to an entity providing the service that the peripheral device requests the service and delivering the service to the wireless peripheral device through the infrastructure network.
- the invention provides a short-range wireless communication system.
- the system includes first means for informing a wireless peripheral device that an infrastructure network providing services is to be accessed and second means, responsive to the first means, for establishing a connection between the infrastructure network and the wireless peripheral device.
- the system further includes third means for selecting a service available in the infrastructure network and fourth means for indicating to an entity providing the service that the peripheral device requests the service, wherein the third and fourth means reside in a short-range wireless host device other than said wireless peripheral device, the wireless host device being operable by a user.
- the invention provides a wireless terminal for wireless short-range networks.
- the wireless terminal includes first means for informing a wireless peripheral device that an infrastructure network providing services is to be accessed, second means for selecting a service from the infrastructure network, and third means for indicating to an entity providing the service that the wireless peripheral device requests the service.
- the invention provides a user interface for a short- range wireless terminal.
- the user interface includes a display for displaying a service object to a user, the service object representing a service provided in an infrastructure network and a first controller configured to create, in response to a predetermined event, a device symbol onto a screen of the display, the device symbol representing an external wireless peripheral device.
- the user interface further includes user-operated pointing means for creating an association between the service object and the device symbol and a second controller configured to indicate, in response to the association created, to an entity providing the service that the peripheral device requests the service.
- the invention provides a computer useable medium having computer readable program code embodied therein to control a short-range wireless terminal.
- the computer readable program code includes a first computer readable program code portion for causing the short- range wireless terminal to inform a wireless peripheral device that an infrastructure network providing services is to be accessed and a second computer readable program code portion for causing the short-range wireless terminal to indicate to an entity providing a service in the infrastructure network that the wireless peripheral device requests the service.
- a peripheral device may be commanded to access the same service providing network as the host devices accesses, and the service delivery may be controlled to take place directly to the peripheral device.
- the host device may be bypassed in the delivery phase of the service, the use of the services becomes more user-friendly, and the battery consumption of the host device is lowered.
- the services may be delivered quicker than before.
- FIG. 1 illustrates an example of a communication environment including an ad- hoc network
- FIG. 2 is a flow diagram illustrating one embodiment of the invention
- FIG. 3 illustrates the steps of FIG. 2 in the environment of FIG. 1;
- FIG. 4 is a block diagram illustrating the basic elements of a terminal according to one embodiment of the invention.
- FIG. 5a to 5c illustrate one embodiment of the user interface of the invention.
- FIG. 1 illustrates a typical WLAN communication system.
- the system includes one or more WLAN networks 100, each connected by means of a gateway 101 (a router) to another network, such as the Internet, which contains service providers 102.
- Each WLAN network comprises one or more access points 103, each communicating wirelessly with the terminals within the coverage area, i.e. the cell, of the access point and thus forming a bridge between the terminals and the wired network.
- BSS Basic Serving Set
- ESS Extended Service Set
- DS Distribution System
- IBSS Independent BSS
- the terminals of an IBSS form an ad-hoc network 110.
- the terminals i.e. the peripheral and host devices
- User-operated terminals i.e. host devices
- the user-operated terminals may be made up of two parts: the actual subscriber device, e.g. a portable computer (with software), and an identity module, whereby from the viewpoint of the network the device becomes a functioning terminal only when the identity module has been inserted into it.
- the identity module may be a (Universal) Subscriber Identity Module ((U)SIM), User Identity Module (UIM) or a (User) Integrated Circuit Card ((U)ICC), for example.
- the peripheral devices 121 may be various auxiliary devices, such as printers or storage units that are typical in office or home environments, and they may also be provided with a separate identity module. Such as the host devices, the peripheral devices may also operate in an ad-hoc network and access the service providing network.
- the system further typically contains an authentication server 130 of the WLAN network.
- the authentication server may be connected to the above- mentioned gateway through a secured connection, which is typically a TCP/IP connection established through an operator network or through the Internet.
- a secured connection typically a TCP/IP connection established through an operator network or through the Internet.
- FIG. 2 is a flow diagram illustrating one embodiment of the invention.
- the left side of the figure shows the operations performed in a host device, while the right side shows the operations performed in a peripheral device controlled by the said host device.
- FlG. 3 illustrates the steps of FIG. 2, assuming that a host device 120 controls a storage unit 121 in the environment shown in FIG. 1.
- the steps corresponding to the steps of FIG. 2 are shown by arrows provided with like reference numbers.
- the host device may first start or join an IBSS (step 200), although this is not necessary as discussed below.
- the user wishes to download content from a service provider to the peripheral device, he/she first selects an access profile for the peripheral device.
- the host device may store several access profiles from among which a suitable one is selected for the peripheral device.
- the access profile is a data unit that includes the parameters needed for accessing the infrastructure network, i.e. the service providing network, in the current communication environment.
- the access profile typically includes the identifier of the local access point and various security parameters.
- the host device then sends the access profile to the peripheral device and associates with the access point using the said access profile (step 202).
- the access profile serves as a "follow me" command by means of which the host device commands the peripheral device to follow the host device to the infrastructure network.
- the access profile may be transferred to the peripheral device in various ways.
- the profile may be sent within an IBSS if the two devices are members of the same IBSS.
- the profile may also be transferred to the peripheral device through another short-range radio interface, such as a radio frequency identification (RFID) interface or a Bluetooth interface, in proximity communication between the two devices.
- RFID radio frequency identification
- the host device may initiate the transfer by touching the peripheral device, for example.
- the devices do not necessarily have to be members in an IBSS at this stage of the process.
- the peripheral device Upon receiving the access profile from the host device the peripheral device associates with the access point using the said profile (step 204). Next, the peripheral device notifies the host device that it has accessed the network (steps 205 and 206).
- the peripheral device may, for example, broadcast a data frame to the host device within an IBSS.
- the frame may include the MAC address of the peripheral device and the IP address of the peripheral device, which the peripheral device received from the access point in connection with the association (step 204).
- the host device may then extract the MAC and IP addresses of the peripheral device from the received message (step 207).
- the address data may also be transferred to the host device through the above- mentioned another radio interface intended for proximity communication.
- the application in the host device is now aware of the peripheral device and its address in the service providing network. This may be indicated to the user for example by creating a new icon representing the peripheral device and displaying the icon through the user interface of the host device (step 208).
- the user may now browse content on content servers and select the content to be downloaded to the peripheral device (step 209).
- the user has made the selection, he/she further indicates that the storage unit 121 is the destination of the selected content. This may be performed, for example, by indicating to the host device application that the destination is the device corresponding to the newly created icon.
- FIG. 5a to 5c illustrate an example of the user interface of the terminal.
- the host device application then sends a service request that includes the network address of the peripheral device.
- the service request may include the network address of the peripheral device only or the network addresses of both the peripheral device and the host device.
- the host device thus pretends to be the peripheral device, i.e. the entity providing the service sees the host device as the peripheral device.
- the entity providing the service is able to detect from the service request, which one of the addresses is the delivery address of the service.
- the selected content is downloaded directly to the storage unit (steps 210 and 211).
- the peripheral device may acknowledge a successful download to the host device (step 212 in FIG. 3).
- a mechanism is added to prevent unauthorized downloads.
- the host device may use a session- specific token in the service request sent to the server providing the service.
- the host device may deliver this token to the peripheral device in the access profile, for example.
- a check is performed between the peripheral device and the service to verify that the download is authorized by a correct party, i.e. that the peripheral device has the same token as the service received in the service request.
- an access profile was transferred to the peripheral device from the host device.
- the peripheral device may also store one or more access profiles and the host device may just indicate when a certain access profile is to be used to access the infrastructure network. The indication may be given directly through an IBSS or an RFID interface, for example.
- the host device may use a user-friendly naming for the peripheral devices, and also for other host devices in the same ad-hoc network. This may be accomplished so that the user assigns a name to another device when the said another device communicates with the host device for the first time.
- the relevant application in the host device may query the user, through the user interface of the device, to assign a name for the device that just contacted the host device.
- the application maps a permanent identifier, such as the MAC address, of the communicating device to the name given by the user. This process may be performed for the peripheral devices when the host device joins the IBSS, for example.
- the host device may poll for the other members of the IBSS by sending a broadcast message requesting the other members of the IBSS to respond. For each response including a MAC address not known before, the user may then be queried to give a name for the responding device. This process may also be performed when the peripheral device informs the host device that it has accessed the network. If there is no stored mapping of the MAC address of the peripheral device to a user-given name, the user may be queried to assign a name for the peripheral device.
- FIG. 4 is a schematic presentation of one embodiment of a host device according to the invention.
- the core of the terminal is a control unit 400, which is connected to various interfaces of the terminal and to a memory unit 430.
- the interfaces of the device may be divided into two classes: interfaces for ad- hoc networks and interfaces for the network infrastructure. However, depending on the type of the mobile terminal, it may be provided with one physical radio interface only.
- ad-hoc interfaces 410, 411 each offering the functionality needed to accomplish connectivity to an ad-hoc network of a particular type, and one or more infrastructure interfaces 420, 421 for connecting the terminal to the network infrastructure.
- Several ad-hoc interfaces are necessary whenever the mobile terminal acts as a trunk terminal that serves ad-hoc networks based on different radio technologies. For example, one ad-hoc network served may be based on WLAN technology, while another one may be based on Bluetooth or Ultra-Wideband (UWB) technology. At least one of the infrastructure interfaces is typically used to transfer packet data traffic through the access network.
- the terminal may also comprise another short- range radio interface, such as an RFID interface 450, in addition to or instead of the ad-hoc interface(s).
- the terminal normally also includes a card reader 405 into which an identity module, such as a (Universal Subscriber Module ((U)SIM), User Identity Module (UIM) or a (User) Integrated Circuit Card ((U)ICC) 406 can be inserted.
- an identity module such as a (Universal Subscriber Module ((U)SIM), User Identity Module (UIM) or a (User) Integrated Circuit Card ((U)ICC) 406 can be inserted.
- the card reader and the memory unit are connected to the control unit in order that the control unit is able to read data from the identity module and from the memory unit and write data into the identity module and into the memory unit.
- the mobile terminal includes user interface means 440 for using the terminal.
- the user interface means typically include a display and a keypad.
- the control unit By executing the application software stored in the memory unit and by using the data stored in the memory unit and/or in the identity module and the input data supplied by the user through the user interface means, the control unit performs the above-described steps of informing that peripheral device that an infrastructure network providing services is to be accessed, selecting a service from the infrastructure network, and indicating that the peripheral device requests the service delivery.
- the memory unit may further include the data needed to map the MAC addresses of the peripheral devices to their nicknames. This data may be in the form of a table 460, for example. In the example of FIG. 4, the nickname given to storage unit 121 is "My pictures".
- FIG. 5a to 5c illustrate one embodiment of the user interface of the terminal by showing the display of the host device at three different stages of the above- described process.
- an icon 51 representing the peripheral device appears on the screen of the display when the peripheral device notifies the host device that it has accessed the infrastructure network (FIG. 5a).
- This may be handled by the control unit; when the control unit detects a relevant message from the peripheral device, it causes the icon representing the peripheral device to appear on the screen, whereby the user knows that the peripheral device is ready to receive content from the network.
- an object 52 representing the download service appears on the screen (FIG. 5b).
- This object, from which the download may be started, may be an icon or a download button, for example.
- the user then creates an association between the peripheral device and the service object to indicate that the peripheral device is the destination of the download.
- the association may be created, for example, by dragging the icon of the peripheral device on top of the service object 52, as is illustrated in FIG. 5c.
- the control unit Upon detecting the creation of the association between the peripheral device and the service, the control unit knows that the destination address to be used when communicating with the entity providing the service is the address of the peripheral device. Thus, the user may download the content to the wireless peripheral device by creating an association between the graphical representations of the peripheral device and the service on the screen, and to his/her own terminal by directing a normal user-operation to the service object, such as a double-click. Different user interface mechanisms may be used to create the association that causes the control unit to use the network address of the peripheral device as the destination address of the service.
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