Electronic apparatus and method for identifying at least one pairing subject in electronic apparatus

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10034124-B2
Application number	US-201615130378-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Apr 15, 2016
Priority date	Apr 17, 2015
Publication date	Jul 24, 2018
Grant date	Jul 24, 2018

Abstract

An apparatus and a method for identifying at least one pairing subject in an electronic apparatus are provided. The method includes generating detection information of the electronic apparatus, receiving a beacon including detection information of at least one external electronic apparatus from the at least one external electronic apparatus, and identifying the at least one pairing subject among the at least one external electronic apparatus based on a result of comparing the received detection information with the generated detection information.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method for identifying at least one pairing subject in an electronic apparatus, the method comprising:
generating detection information of the electronic apparatus based on a predetermined action to be simultaneously performed for pairing in the electronic apparatus and at least one external electronic apparatus;
receiving a beacon including detection information of the at least one external electronic apparatus based on the predetermined action from the at least one external electronic apparatus; and
identifying the at least one pairing subject among the at least one external electronic apparatus based on a result of comparing the detection information included in the received beacon with the generated detection information.

2. The method of claim 1 , further comprising acquiring the detection information of the at least one external electronic apparatus by parsing the received beacon.

3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the detection information comprises at least one of a sensor code corresponding to a sensor type of each of sensors included in each of the electronic apparatuses, a detection value detected by each of the sensors according to the predetermined action, measurement time at a time point when the detection value is detected, or a processed detection value processed based on at least one of the detection value or the measurement time.

4. The method of claim 3 , wherein the processed detection value comprises at least one of a value partially extracted from the detection value, a change pattern of the detection value according to the measurement time, a measurement time point corresponding to an inflection point of the detection value, or information generated based on the detection value.

5. The method of claim 3 , wherein the identifying of the at least one pairing subject comprises determining the at least one external electronic apparatus as the at least one pairing subject when a difference between the measurement time included in the detection information of the electronic apparatus and the measurement time included in the detection information of the at least one external electronic apparatus is within a preset allowable value.

6. The method of claim 3 , wherein the identifying of the at least one pairing subject comprises determining the at least one external electronic apparatus as the at least one pairing subject if a difference between the detection value included in the detection information of the electronic apparatus and the detection value included in the detection information of the at least one external electronic apparatus is within a preset allowable value, when the sensor code included in the detection information of the electronic apparatus is identical to the sensor code included in the detection information of the at least one external electronic apparatus.

7. The method of claim 6 , wherein the identifying of the at least one pairing subject comprises determining the at least one external electronic apparatus as the at least one pairing subject if a difference between the processed detection value processed by the electronic apparatus and the processed detection value processed by the at least one external electronic apparatus is within a preset allowable value, when the difference between the detection value included in the detection information of the electronic apparatus and the detection value included in the detection information of the at least one external electronic apparatus is greater than the preset allowable value.

8. The method of claim 3 , wherein the identifying of the at least one pairing subject comprises determining the at least one external electronic apparatus as the at least one pairing subject if a difference between the processed detection value processed by the electronic apparatus and the processed detection value processed by the at least one external electronic apparatus is within a preset allowable value, when the sensor code included in the detection information of the electronic apparatus is not identical to the sensor code included in the detection information of the at least one external electronic apparatus.

9. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
controlling a connection with the identified at least one pairing subject,
wherein the controlling of the connection with the identified at least one pairing subject comprises:
transmitting a connection request message to the at least one pairing subject,
receiving a connection request response message in response to the connection request message from the at least one pairing subject and
determining whether a connection with the at least one pairing subject is established according to the received connection request response message.

10. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
generating a beacon comprising the detection information and apparatus identification information of the electronic apparatus; and
advertising the generated beacon to the at least one external electronic apparatus.

11. At least one non-transitory computer readable storage medium for storing a computer program of instructions configured to be readable by at least one processor for instructing the at least one processor to execute a computer process for performing the method of claim 1 .

12. An electronic apparatus comprising:
a communication interface; and
a processor configured to:
generate detection information of the electronic apparatus based on a predetermined action to be simultaneously performed for pairing in the electronic apparatus and at least one external electronic apparatus,
receive, from the at least one external electronic apparatus through the communication interface, a beacon including detection information of the at least one external electronic apparatus based on the predetermined action, and
identify at least one pairing subject among the at least one external electronic apparatus based on a result of comparing the detection information included in the received beacon with the generated detection information.

13. The electronic apparatus of claim 12 , wherein the processor is further configured to acquire the detection information of the at least one external electronic apparatus by parsing the received beacon.

14. The electronic apparatus of claim 12 , wherein the detection information comprises at least one of a sensor code corresponding to a sensor type of each of sensors included in each of the electronic apparatuses, a detection value detected by each of the sensors according to the predetermined action, measurement time at a time point when the detection value is detected, or a processed detection value processed based on at least one of the detection value or the measurement time.

15. The electronic apparatus of claim 14 , wherein the processed detection value comprises at least one of a value partially extracted from the detection value, a change pattern of the detection value according to the measurement time, a measurement time point corresponding to an inflection point of the detection value, or information generated based on the detection value.

16. The electronic apparatus of claim 14 , wherein the processor is further configured to determine the at least one external electronic apparatus as the at least one pairing subject when a difference between the measurement time included in the detection information of the electronic apparatus and the measurement time included in the detection information of the at least one external electronic apparatus is within a preset allowable value.

17. The electronic apparatus of claim

Assignees

• Samsung Electronics Co Ltd

Inventors

• Son Kwang-Sub
• Choi Won-Suk
• Son Sung-Ho
• Han Young-Eun

Classifications

• H04L63/0861

  using biometrical features, e.g. fingerprint, retina-scan (cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for entity authentication using biological data H04L9/3231) · CPC title

• H04W12/06

  Authentication · CPC title

• H04W4/80 Primary

  Services using short range communication, e.g. near-field communication [NFC], radio-frequency identification [RFID] or low energy communication · CPC title

• H04W84/18

  Self-organising networks, e.g. ad-hoc networks or sensor networks · CPC title

• H04W40/244

  using a network of reference devices, e.g. beaconing · CPC title