Method, Apparatus, and System for Configuring Wireless Device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2016080940-A1
Application number	US-201514936827-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Nov 10, 2015
Priority date	May 10, 2013
Publication date	Mar 17, 2016
Grant date	—

Abstract

A method for configuring a wireless device includes acquiring, by a third device, information about a first device, sharing a first key with the first device, and sending a first trigger message to the first device, where the first trigger message includes information about the third device; and acquiring, by the third device, information about a second device, sharing a second key with the second device, and sending a second trigger message to the second device, where the second trigger message includes the information about the third device and the information about the first device, such that the second device negotiates, according to the information about the third device and the information about the first device and based on authentication of the third device, with the first device to generate a third key, and establishes a connection between the first device and the second device using the third key.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1 . A method for configuring a wireless device, comprising:
acquiring, by a third device, information about a first device; sharing a first key with the first device; sending a first trigger message to the first device, wherein the first trigger message comprises information about the third device; acquiring, by the third device, information about a second device; sharing a second key with the second device; sending a second trigger message to the second device, wherein the second trigger message comprises the information about the third device and the information about the first device so that the second device:
negotiates, according to the information about the third device and the information about the first device and based on authentication of the third device, with the first device to generate a third key; and
establishes a connection with the first device using the third key.

2 . The method according to claim 1 , wherein acquiring, by the third device, the information about the first device comprises at least one of:
acquiring, by the third device and by scanning a two-dimensional code of the first device, the information about the first device corresponding to the two-dimensional code of the first device; acquiring, by the third device, the information about the first device in a near field communication (NFC) manner; and acquiring, by the third device, the information about the first device in a short-range WiFi communication manner.

3 . The method according to claim 1 , wherein acquiring, by the third device, the information about the second device comprises at least one of:
acquiring, by the third device and by scanning a two-dimensional code of the second device, the information about the second device corresponding to the two-dimensional code of the second device; acquiring, by the third device, the information about the second device in an NFC) manner; and acquiring, by the third device, the information about the second device in a short-range WiFi communication manner.

4 . The method according to claim 2 , wherein sharing the first key with the first device comprises at least one of:
negotiating, by the third device, with the first device to generate the first key; sending, by the third device, the first key to the first device in at least one of the NFC manner and the short-range WiFi communication manner; receiving, by the third device, the first key sent by the first device in at least one of the NFC manner and the short-range WiFi communication manner; and acquiring, by the third device and by scanning the two-dimensional code of the first device, the first key set by the first device.

5 . The method according to claim 3 , wherein sharing the second key with the second device comprises at least one of:
negotiating, by the third device, with the second device to generate the first key; sending, by the third device, the second key to the second device in at least one of the NFC manner and the short-range WiFi communication manner; receiving, by the third device, the second key sent by the second device; and acquiring, by the third device and by scanning the two-dimensional code of the second device, the second key set by the second device.

6 . The method according to claim 2 , wherein the information about the first device comprises a working channel of the first device, and wherein, after acquiring, by the third device, the information about the first device, the method comprises adjusting, by the third device, a working channel of the third device to the working channel of the first device according to the working channel of the first device.

7 . The method according to claim 3 , wherein the information about the second device comprises a working channel of the second device, and wherein, after acquiring, by the third device, the information about the second device, the method comprises adjusting, by the third device, a working channel of the third device to the working channel of the second device according to the working channel of the second device.

8 . A method for configuring a wireless device, comprising:
receiving, by a second device, a second trigger message sent by a third device, wherein the second trigger message comprises information about the third device and information about a first device, and wherein the second trigger message is sent to the second device after the third device acquires information about the second device and shares a second key with the second device; and negotiating, by the second device according to the information about the third device and the information about the first device and based on authentication of the third device, with the first device to generate a third key; and establishing a connection with the first device using the third key.

9 . The method according to claim 8 , wherein the information about the first device is at least one of the:
information that is about the first device, acquired by the third device by scanning a two-dimensional code of the first device, and corresponding to the two-dimensional code; information that is about the first device and acquired by the third device by means of near field communication (NFC); and information that is about the first device and acquired by the third device by means of short-range WiFi communication.

10 . The method according to claim 8 , wherein before receiving, by the second device, the second trigger message sent by the third device, the method comprises:
sending, by the second device, a two-dimensional code of the second device to the third device; and sharing the second key with the third device, such that the third device acquires the information that is about the second device and corresponding to the two-dimensional code.

11 . The method according to claim 8 , wherein before receiving, by the second device, the second trigger message sent by the third device, the method comprises:
sending the information about the second device to the third device by means of NFC; and sharing the second key with the third device.

12 . The method according to claim 8 , wherein before receiving, by the second device, the second trigger message sent by the third device, the method comprises:
sending the information about the second device to the third device by means of short-range WiFi communication; and sharing the second key with the third device.

13 . The method according to claim 8 , wherein the information about the first device comprises a working channel of the first device, wherein the information about the third device comprises a working channel of the third device, and wherein, after receiving, by the second device, the second trigger message sent by the third device, the method comprises at least one of:
adjusting, by the second device, a working channel of the second device to the working channel of the first device according to the working channel of the first device; and adjusting, by the second device, a working channel of the second device to the working channel of the third device according to the working channel of the third device.

14 . A wireless device comprising:
a memory; and a processor coupled with the memory, wherein the processor is configured to:
acquire information about a first device;
share a first key with the first device;
send a first trigger message to the first device, wherein the first trigger message comprises information about the wireless device;
acquire information about a second device;
share a second key with the second device;
send a second trigger message to the second de

Assignees

• Huawei Device Co Ltd

Inventors

• Pang Gaokun
• Ding Zhiming

Classifications

• H04W84/12

  WLAN [Wireless Local Area Networks] · CPC title

• H04W12/04

  Key management, e.g. using generic bootstrapping architecture [GBA] · CPC title

• H04W76/02

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04W12/06 Primary

  Authentication · CPC title

• H04W4/008

  Electricity · mapped topic