Network access method, apparatus, server and terminal

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2016007391-A1
Application number	US-201514789436-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Jul 1, 2015
Priority date	Jul 2, 2014
Publication date	Jan 7, 2016
Grant date	—

Abstract

A method, an apparatus, a server and a terminal of accessing a network are disclosed. The method includes: receiving a first base station identifier and a first terminal identifier of a terminal from the terminal, the first base station identifier being a base station identifier of a first Bluetooth base station acquired by the terminal after establishing a connection with the first Bluetooth base station; obtaining a first access point device associated with the first Bluetooth base station based on the first base station identifier; and sending an access instruction to the first access point device to cause the first access point device to allow the terminal to access a wireless network upon verifying that the terminal has been registered based on the first terminal identifier. Using the embodiments of the present disclosure, a terminal can automatically access a wireless network without the need of a terminal user to perform cumbersome input operations manually, thereby improving the speed of accessing a network.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1 . A method implemented by one or more computing devices, the method comprising:
receiving a first base station identifier and a first terminal identifier of a terminal from the terminal, the first base station identifier being a base station identifier of a first base station that is acquired by the terminal after establishing a connection with the first base station; obtaining a first access point device associated with the first base station based at least in part on the first base station identifier; and sending an access instruction to the first access point device to cause the first access point device to allow the terminal to access a wireless network.

2 . The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
verifying that the terminal has been registered based at least in part on the first terminal identifier; and sending the access instruction to the first access point device in response to verifying that the terminal has been registered.

3 . The method of claim 1 , further comprising storing binding relationships between device identifiers of access point devices and base station identifiers of respective base stations that are associated with the access point devices in advance.

4 . The method of claim 3 , wherein obtaining the first access point device comprises:
searching the binding relationships to obtain a first device identifier corresponding to the first base station identifier; and determining an access point device corresponding to the first device identifier as the first access point device.

5 . The method of claim 4 , wherein:
the first base station identifier comprises a base station media access control (MAC) address of the first base station; the first terminal identifier comprises one or more of: a MAC address and a wireless network card MAC address of the terminal; and the first device identifier comprises a device MAC address of the first access point device.

6 . The method of claim 3 , wherein the binding relationships further comprise service set identifiers (SSIDs) of the access point devices.

7 . The method of claim 6 , further comprising:
searching the binding relationships to obtain a first SSID of the first access point device corresponding to the first base station identifier; and sending the first SSID to the terminal to enable the terminal to establish a connection with the wireless network represented by the first SSID.

8 . The method of claim 1 , further comprising storing terminal identifiers of registered terminals through which user registration is completed in advance.

9 . The method of claim 6 , further comprising:
verifying that the terminal has been registered in response to finding the first terminal identifier in the stored terminal identifiers of the registered terminals; and sending the access instruction to the first access point device in response to verifying that the terminal has been registered.

10 . An apparatus comprising:
one or more processors; memory; an establishing unit stored in the memory and executable by the one or more processors to establish a connection with a first base station; an acquisition unit to acquire a first base station identifier of the first base station that is connected by the establishing unit; a sending unit to send the first base station identifier and a first terminal identifier of a terminal to a server to cause the server to deliver an access instruction to a first access point device that is associated with the first base station and that is obtained based at least in part the first base station identifier to enable the first access point device to allow the terminal to access a wireless network; and an access unit to access the wireless network provided by the first access point device.

11 . The apparatus of claim 10 , further comprising:
a first receiving unit to receive a first service set identifier (SSID) of the first access point device from the server; and a first connection unit to establish a connection with the wireless network represented by the first SSID received by the first receiving unit.

12 . The apparatus of claim 10 , wherein the first SSID is a SSID obtained after searching stored binding relationships and corresponds to the first base station identifier, the binding relationships comprising binding relationships among device identifiers of access point devices, respective SSIDs of the access point devices, and base station identifiers of respective base stations that are associated with the access point devices.

13 . The apparatus of claim 10 , further comprising:
a second receiving unit to receive binding relationships from the server, the binding relationships comprising binding relationships between device identifiers of access point devices, respective SSIDs of the access point devices, and base station identifiers of respective base stations that are associated with the access point devices; a search unit to search the binding relationships received by the second receiving unit to obtain a first SSID corresponding to the first base station identifier; and a second connection unit to establish a connection with the wireless network represented by the first SSID that is found by the search unit.

14 . The apparatus of claim 10 , further comprising a reporting unit to report the first terminal identifier of the terminal to the server when a user registers with the server through the terminal.

15 . One or more computer-readable media storing executable instructions that, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform acts comprising:
receiving a first base station identifier and a first terminal identifier of a terminal from the terminal, the first base station identifier being a base station identifier of a first base station that is acquired by the terminal after establishing a connection with the first base station; obtaining a first access point device associated with the first base station based at least in part on the first base station identifier; and sending an access instruction to the first access point device to cause the first access point device to allow the terminal to access a wireless network.

16 . The one or more computer-readable media of claim 15 , the acts further comprising:
verifying that the terminal has been registered based at least in part on the first terminal identifier; and sending the access instruction to the first access point device in response to verifying that the terminal has been registered.

17 . The one or more computer-readable media of claim 15 , the acts further comprising storing binding relationships between device identifiers of access point devices and base station identifiers of respective base stations that are associated with the access point devices in advance.

18 . The one or more computer-readable media of claim 17 , wherein obtaining the first access point device comprises:
searching the binding relationships to obtain a first device identifier corresponding to the first base station identifier; and determining an access point device corresponding to the first device identifier as the first access point device.

19 . The one or more computer-readable media of claim 17 , wherein the binding relationships further comprise service set identifiers (SSIDs) of the access point devices.

20 . The one or more computer-readable media of claim 19 , the acts further comprising:
searching the binding relationships to obtain a first S

Assignees

• Alibaba Group Holding Ltd

Inventors

• Yu Yang
• Dong Hui

Classifications

• H04W76/021 Primary

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04W88/02

  Terminal devices · CPC title

• H04W48/08

  Access restriction or access information delivery, e.g. discovery data delivery (signalling during connection H04W76/00) · CPC title

• H04W88/08

  Access point devices · CPC title

• H04W48/14

  using user query {or user detection} · CPC title