WO2018011814A1

WO2018011814A1 - A system of dynamic application for accessing secure wlan and enabling services.

Info

Publication number: WO2018011814A1
Application number: PCT/IN2016/000225
Authority: WO
Inventors: B. Arun
Original assignee: Arun B
Priority date: 2016-07-11
Filing date: 2016-09-02
Publication date: 2018-01-18

Abstract

A system of Dynamic Application for Accessing Secure WLAN and Enabling Services relates generally to Portable Electronic Devices referred to as a Mobile Devices/Mobile Phones. The invention utilises dynamic application to grant access to a secure wireless Ian which then allows various features such as file transfer, mail, chat, information services, ordering items, controlling other devices and other application services.The use of a Mobile Device/Mobile Phone to access and control other devices in a smart homes, smart office, connected environment, or on the Internet. The invention uses dynamic application to connect to server and transform into that specific wlan's application. In embodiments, residential or business customers are provided with an Network interface (e.g.,Routers) having a wireless transceiver. The major issue in setting up WIFI access point for this system is that there may be many Wireless LANs available in the surroundings and the End User application should select and display only the networks which have the App host. This system overcomes this issue by encrypting of Service name and password in the Service Set Identifier (SSID) of the access point and decrypting in End User application. This acts as a filter between all other networks and the application specific network by listing the user of nearby specific Wi-Fi access points through user input, the mobile device is connected to the secure wlan automatically, which then connects with the apphost to receive application description data. The dynamic application automatically transforms and displays the user interface to utilize the services within the wlan.

Description

"A SYSTEM OF DYNAMIC APPLICATION FOR ACCESSING SECURE WLAN AND ENABLING SERVICES."

FIELD OF INVENTION

[OOOlJThe present invention relates generally to the use of a Mobile Device/Mobile Phone to access a secure wireless LAN for accessing the permitted information of the LAN as programmed to enable services like file transfer, mail, chat, information services, ordering items, controlling other devices and other application services. It can also control other devices in a smart homes, smart office, connected environment, or on the Internet. The invention accesses the permitted information from the server connected to specific wireless network with the help of dynamic application. The invention relates to dynamic application to connect to server and transform into that specific wlan's application.

BACKGROUND OF INVENTION

[0002] The Mobile Device/Mobile Phone is lightweight and portable. The Mobile Device/Wireless Phone comprises a built-in display, a microphone, speaker, keyboard, high speed transmit receive device, such as a wireless local area network (WLAN) or 802.11a, b, c, x or Wi-Fi radio, Bluetooth, Ethernet, USB 1.0, USB 2.0, USB 3.0, ZigBee, Global Positioning System (GPS), and may connect to an external display, or use a browser to connect to an Internet website. The Mobile Device/Mobile Phone may have a digital video or still camera including a front f cing camera, a rear facing camera, a plurality of flashes including LED flashes, an image sensor, a motion sensor, and a light sensor. The Mobile Device/Mobile Phone may- have additional input/output ports for connectivity to other devices. The Mobile Device/Mobile Phone has a transmitter, receiver, a digital signal processors), other processors, controller, display electronics and audio/video electronics. These functional blocks may be implemented using standard electronic, mechanical, or electromechanical components or custom electronic, mechanical, or electromechanical components by those knowledgeable in the art.

[0003]The home environment contains an increasing number of connected Internet Protocol (IP) enabled wired and wireless devices. There is a need to control appliances in the home using a mobile device/mobile phone or a network server or doud monitoring service. The Mobile Device (MD)/Mobile Phone (MP) referred to in this disclosure may be a Cellular Telephone (CT), Wireless Phone, Smart Phone, Tablet Computer, handheld computer, touch screen enabled user computing device, multifunction wireless device with software applications, Voice over IP Wireless Device or Wireless Video Phone. Various embodiments of the Mobile Device/Mobile Phone may be created. The Mobile Device/Mobile Phone can execute complex tasks previously resident on the personal computer, workstation, server, or a mainframe computer; more particularly, the Mobile Device/Mobile Phone leverages the tremendous power of both the Intranet and the Internet, local and network servers, and public, private, and virtual cloud servers. Intelligent telephony, appliances, devices, and equipment will find increasing use in modern society. There is a need for one single universal, handheld, lightweight, transportable, intelligent device that can compute, command, and control all these intelligent devices.

[0004]The Mobile Device/Mobile Phone combines transmitting and receiving information, performing standard computing functions through use of a network or local server, interacting and commanding many intelligent peripheral devices around the home or office through wired or wireless means, telephony, handwriting recognition, barcode creating, reading and printing; magnetic stripe creating, reading and printing; electronic mail, which may include audio, text/graphics, and video; mass storage device and display features, video input/output, imaging, audio input/output, voice mail capability, voice synthesis, language translation with text to voice and voice to text capability built into one multi-function device.

[0005] Location-based services (LBS) are a general class of computer program-level services that use location data to control features. As such LBS is an information service and has a number of uses in social networking today as an entertainment service, which is accessible with mobile devices through the mobile network and which uses information on the geographical position of the mobile device. This has become more and more important with the expansion of the Smartphone and tablet markets as well. Location Based Services (LBS) are a part of virtually all control and policy systems which work in computers today. They have evolved from simple synchronization based service models to authenticated and complex tools for implementing virtually any location based service model or facility. LBS is the ability to open and close specific data objects based on the use of location and/or time as (controls and triggers) or as part of complex cryptographic key or hashing systems and the data they provide access to. Location based services today are a part of everything from control systems to smart weapons. They are actively used trillions of times a day and may be one of the most heavily used application-layer decision framework in computing today.

[0006] The Mobile Device/Mobile Phone may be multi-band such as dual- band, tri-band, quad-band, or n-band, and an international wireless device. This two way or multi-way communication may be either wired or wireless. The Mobile Device/Mobile Phone may connect with a communication line or another intelligent appliance using a network directly/peer to peer or using a server. The Mobile Device/Mobile Phone may also work in tandem with multiple embedded radios, separated wireless 802.11 or cellular access points and transmit/receive devices that may exist in other appliances or work with a central host modem or transmit/receive unit.

[0007]In this age of the Intranet and the Internet, there is a trend for the computing power and software protocols to move away from the user location, such as the personal computer, to the local server/network server/cloud. The Mobile Device/Mobile Phone may access an application store or the Internet to download applications configured to run on the Mobile Device/Mobile Phone. The Mobile Device/Mobile Phone may use a network cloud server for storage of content and automatic sharing of the content across multiple devices.

[0008] The current wireless technology that is being used includes Bluetooth, Infrared, Wi-Fi which can be enabled with the help of wireless routers to create a local area network and it also provides a gateway to the internet. The wireless routers are either open or secured with a password. The password is encrypted with various protocols such as WPA, WPA 2 and the end user must know the password in order to access the wireless network.

[0009] Most of the traders and service organisations have developed simple applications whereby the customer or end user may access the business or permitted information and also enabling transactions. There are many services that can be enabled with the help of a Ian but the only problem is that several applications need to be installed depending upon the necessity of the user and each installation consumes huge space in the mobile device affecting its performance and the installation process is also tedious. The present invention overcomes all these problems by having a single dynamic application which as permitted by the concerned traders or organisations, accesses various features such as file transfer, mail, chat, information services, ordering items, controlling other devices and other application services through WLAN, based on the need of the user. This does not consume space in the mobile device as it is all obtained only on connecting to the wlan and later removed when not in range through this inventive single dynamic application and it also avoids storing multiple applications thus saving the storage space of the device and time.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF INVENTION

[0010] "A system of Dynamic Application for Accessing Secure WLAN and Enabling Services" provides different services based on the wlan which is connected through a single dynamic application. Embodiments present in this application provide a wireless network with several access points connected to the communication infrastructure. In embodiments, residential or business customers are provided with a network interface which is a router (e.g., a digital subscriber line (DSL) modem) having a wireless transceiver.

[OOii] This invention is a slight variation of the Mobile Device/Mobile Phone that enables the basic Mobile Device/Mobile Phone possesses the electronics and computing power to transmit data to and receive data from either a network server (the network server can be a PC or cloud servers or cloud databases or cloud processors or cloud memory systems) or intelligent peripheral or intelligent appliance through either wireless means, to serve as a transmit and receive hub. Using the computing power resident on the network server a user can perform all standard-computing functions from the Mobile Device/Mobile Phone. The Mobile Device/Mobile Phone has a transmitter, receiver, a digital signal processor, and controller, display electronics and audio electronics, which are available as chips. These chips may be standard integrated circuits or custom built. There can be multiple transmit/receive components built into the Mobile Device/Mobile Phone. The transmit/receive components can operate through either wired such as Ethernet, USB, audio cables, HDMI, or wireless means such as 802.11, cellular, Bluetooth.

[0012] To create the wireless networks, a local area network is setup and wireless access points are created with the help of routers with wireless transceivers as shown in Fig 1.

[0013] The local area network is provided with an apphost server which contains the application description data regarding the services within that local area network. This application description data sufficiently helps the dynamic application to present the User Interface to the end user to utilize the services within the local area network easily and efficiently as shown in Fig 3.

[0014] The major issue in setting up WIFI access point for this system is that there may be many Wireless LANs available in the surroundings and the End User application should select and display only the networks which have the App host.

[0015] In order to overcome this issue, encryption of identification, Service name and password in the Service Set Identifier (SSID) of the access point and decryption in End User application. The encryption algorithm involves Wi-Fi access point's unique MAC address, Service name and password and application specific number as shown in Fig 4 and 5. Only those network id's that pass the decryption function will be identified as Application specific network. This acts as a filter between all other networks and the application specific network as shown in Fig 1. The working of the end user application includes

1. Listing the user of nearby specific Wi-Fi access points which contain the apphost.

2. On user input, the mobile device is connected to the secure wlan automatically, and then connects with the apphost to receive application description data.

3. The dynamic application automatically transforms and displays the user interface to utilize the services within the wlan as shown in Fig 2.

OBJECT OF INVENTION

[00i6]The main object of the invention is to transform a single dynamic application into different services based on the wlan.

[0017] Another object of the invention is to enable automation of connecting to network, server and receiving application description data to the user input by selecting the required service.

[0018] Another object of invention is to provide effective filtering of suitable network among the group of surrounding networks using Service Set Identifier (SSID). [00i9]Yet another object of invention is to transfer any kind of data not limited to videos, images etc. via the AppHost.

DESCRIPTION OF DRAWINGS

Figure 1 is a schematic representation of the working of the Client - AppHost model and indicates when the app is turned on and scanned for nearby services.

Figure 2 is a schematic representation of the various features that can be enabled with the wlan.

Figure 3 is a flowchart which gives detailed description of the process flow that takes place between the server and the wlan.

Figure 4 is a flowchart which gives detailed description of the process flow that takes place in the encryption algorithm.

Figure 5 is a flowchart which gives detailed description of the process flow that takes place in the decryption algorithm.

Claims

CLAIMS I claim,

1. "A system of Dynamic Application for Accessing Secure WLAN and Enabling Services" wherein the system comprises of secure WLAN, Mobile device, Wireless Access Points (WAP), in which the Service set Identifier of the WAP is encrypted with service name, the MAC address of the WAP, password for the WAP and an application ID which ensures effective filtering of other wlans, displaying only the specifically configured wlan and one or more apphost servers which broadcasts its information within the wlan and contains the application specific description data which is received and processed by the dynamic application enabling services, by connecting to the apphost by receiving the broadcasted information from the app host with in the local area network.

2. The System as claimed in claim 1, wherein identification of networks which contain apphost is done by filtering of other networks by means of encrypting the SSID with Service name, password of the network, MAC Address and Application ID of wireless access points which contain the app host and decrypting them in the application, those which pass the decryption are displayed.

3. The System as claimed in claim 1, wherein providing the end user specified Wi-Fi access points among the surrounding Wireless LAN's available and displaying only the networks which have the App host.

4. The system as claimed in claims 2 and 3, wherein App host is a server running on an electronic device that contains the WLAN specific application description data, the electronic device can be a computer, mobile, laptop, microcontroller or microprocessor.

5. The System as claimed in claim 2, wherein the dynamic application communicates with the operating system to connect to the specified network of the user selection with the password decrypted from the SSID which leads to automation of connection to server done by broadcasting the server information within the network.

6. The system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the application is compatible for various Operating System (OS) platforms by making use of the broadcasting system to broadcast server information.

7. The system as claimed in claim 1, wherein application description data is designed to be processed by the dynamic application to display the user interface.

8. The system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the application description data can be a webpage containing the user interface.

9. The system as claimed in claims 5 and 7, comprising the application specific networks present in the surroundings being displayed to the user and the digital contents for the wlan specific application present in the local networks.

10. The system as claimed in claims 5, 6 and 7, determining that when the application description data is loaded , other data such as video, audio, images and graphics can be received from the servers within the local area network only when required and the system can determine if the wlan specific application requires Internet, the local server may provide gateway to connect to the Internet.