Device, Method, and System for Starting Mobile Hotspot

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2016127989-A1
Application number	US-201314896119-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Sep 4, 2013
Priority date	Jun 6, 2013
Publication date	May 5, 2016
Grant date	—

Abstract

Disclosed is a device for starting a mobile hotspot, including: a password sending module, configured to send a Bluetooth pairing password and a preset start password to a mobile terminal that previously accessed a mobile hotspot via WIFI; a working state detecting module, configured to: detect the working state of mobile hotspot; a sleep triggering module, configured to trigger the mobile hotspot to enter into a sleeping state when detecting that the mobile hotspot has no user access and/or no data service; a Bluetooth module, configured to establish a Bluetooth connection with the mobile terminal and receive a password sent by the mobile terminal when the mobile hotspot is in the sleeping state; a start controlling module, configured to compare the password with a locally stored start password and control the mobile hotspot to enter into the working state when the comparison result is that they are consistent.

First claim

1 . A device for starting a mobile hotspot, comprising:
a password sending module, configured to: send a Bluetooth pairing password and a preset start password to a mobile terminal which previously accessed a mobile hotspot via WIFI; a working state detecting module, configured to: detect a working state of the mobile hotspot; a sleep triggering module, configured to: trigger the mobile hotspot to enter into a sleeping state when detecting that the mobile hotspot has no user access and/or no data service; a Bluetooth module, configured to: establish a Bluetooth connection with the mobile terminal when the mobile hotspot is in the sleeping state, and receive a password sent by the mobile terminal via a Bluetooth device; a start controlling module, configured to: compare the password with a locally stored start password, and control the mobile hotspot to enter into the working state when a comparison result is that the password and the locally stored start password are consistent.

2 . The device for starting a mobile hotspot of claim 1 , wherein the sleep triggering module is configured to: detect whether there are mobile terminals trying to access the mobile hotspot via the WIFI or not according to a preset time interval, and if no, control all power-consuming modules but Bluetooth module of the mobile hotspot to enter into the sleeping state.

3 . The device for starting a mobile hotspot of claim 2 , wherein the Bluetooth module comprises:
a scanning unit, configured to: detect whether there is Bluetooth equipment requesting to access or not according to a time cycle; a controlling unit, configured to: when there is the Bluetooth equipment requesting to access, control the Bluetooth module to enter into the working state; and when there is no Bluetooth equipment requesting to access, control the Bluetooth module to enter into a standby state.

4 . The device for starting a mobile hotspot of claim 1 , wherein the Bluetooth module further comprises:
a power-on signal transceiving unit, configured to: collect a power-on signal of the mobile hotspot and send the power-on signal to the mobile terminal.

5 . A mobile hotspot, comprising the control device in claim 1 .

6 . A method for starting a mobile hotspot, comprising:
sending a Bluetooth pairing password and a preset start password to a mobile terminal which previously accessed a mobile hotspot via WIFI; detecting a working state of the mobile hotspot; triggering the mobile hotspot to enter into a sleeping state when detecting that the mobile hotspot has no user access and/or no data service; establishing a Bluetooth connection with the mobile terminal when the mobile hotspot is in the sleeping state, and receiving a password sent by the mobile terminal via a Bluetooth device; comparing the password with a locally stored start password, and controlling the mobile hotspot to enter into the working state when a comparison result is that the password and the locally stored start password are consistent.

7 . The method for starting a mobile hotspot of claim 6 , wherein said triggering the mobile hotspot to enter into the sleeping state comprises:
detecting whether there is a mobile terminal trying to access the mobile hotspot via WIFI according to a preset time interval, and if no, controlling all power-consuming modules but Bluetooth module of the mobile hotspot to enter into the sleeping state.

8 . The method for starting a mobile hotspot of claim 7 , wherein said establishing a Bluetooth connection with the mobile terminal when the mobile hotspot is in the sleeping state comprises:
detecting whether there is Bluetooth equipment requesting to access or not according to a time cycle; when there is the Bluetooth equipment requesting to access, controlling the Bluetooth module to enter into the working state; and where there is no Bluetooth equipment requesting to access, controlling the Bluetooth module to enter into a standby state.

9 . The method for starting a mobile hotspot of claim 6 , wherein after controlling the mobile hotspot to enter into the working state, the method further comprises:
collecting a power-on signal of the mobile hotspot and sending the power-on signal to the mobile terminal.

10 . A system for starting a mobile hotspot, comprising a mobile terminal and a mobile hotspot, wherein the mobile hotspot is the mobile hotspot of claim 5 ; the mobile terminal comprises:
a storing module, configured to: store the Bluetooth pairing password and start password sent by the mobile hotspot; a Bluetooth device, configured to: after establishing the connection with the Bluetooth module of the mobile hotspot, send the start password to the mobile hotspot.

11 . The system for starting a mobile hotspot of claim 10 , wherein the mobile terminal further comprises:
a power-on signal obtaining module, configured to: obtain a power-on signal sent by the mobile hotspot; a WIFI triggering module, configured to: start a WIFI module of the present mobile terminal according to the power-on signal and access the mobile hotspot.

12 . The system for starting a mobile hotspot of claim 11 , wherein the mobile terminal further comprises: a WIFI recording module, configured to:
after the mobile terminal successfully accesses the mobile hotspot, record a mobile hotspot access password, to automatically access the mobile hotspot at the next time.

13 . The method for starting a mobile hotspot of claim 11 , wherein the mobile hotspot further comprises:
a Bluetooth device controlling module, configured to: when the mobile terminal accesses the mobile hotspot, control the Bluetooth device to be shut down.

14 . The device for starting a mobile hotspot of claim 2 , wherein the Bluetooth module further comprises:
a power-on signal transceiving unit, configured to: collect a power-on signal of the mobile hotspot and send the power-on signal to the mobile terminal.

15 . The device for starting a mobile hotspot of claim 3 , wherein the Bluetooth module further comprises:
a power-on signal transceiving unit, configured to: collect a power-on signal of the mobile hotspot and send the power-on signal to the mobile terminal.

16 . A mobile hotspot, comprising the control device in claim 2 .

17 . A mobile hotspot, comprising the control device in claim 3 .

18 . A mobile hotspot, comprising the control device in claim 4 .

19 . The method for starting a mobile hotspot of claim 12 , wherein the mobile hotspot further comprises:
a Bluetooth device controlling module, configured to: when the mobile terminal accesses the mobile hotspot, control the Bluetooth device to be shut down.

Assignees

• Zte Corp

Inventors

• Zhang Xiaoliang
• Han Jin

Classifications

• H04W52/0203 Primary

  in the radio access network or backbone network of wireless communication networks · CPC title

• H04W4/80

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

• H04W52/0235

  where the received signal is a power saving command · CPC title

• H04L63/10

  for controlling access to devices or network resources · CPC title

• H04L63/083

  using passwords (cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for entity authentication using a predetermined code H04L9/3226) · CPC title