Local area network communication method, electronic device, vehicle, system, and medium

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2025203695-A1
Application number	US-202519062787-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Feb 25, 2025
Priority date	Sep 27, 2022
Publication date	Jun 19, 2025
Grant date	—

Abstract

A communication method for a local area network (LAN), is applicable to a first device, includes: obtaining at least one second device connected to the first device by a wired communication mode, the first device configured to provide a wireless access hotspot to the at least one second device; sending initial hotspot information of the wireless access hotspot to the at least one second device by the wired communication mode, the initial hotspot information being configured to provide the at least one second device with authentication information for the at least one second device to access the wireless access hotspot; and establishing, by the first device and the at least one second device, a first wireless LAN connection according to the initial hotspot information.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1 . A communication method for a local area network (LAN), applicable to a first device, the method comprising:
obtaining at least one second device connected to the first device by a wired communication mode, the first device configured to provide a wireless access hotspot to the at least one second device; sending initial hotspot information of the wireless access hotspot to the at least one second device by the wired communication mode, the initial hotspot information being configured to provide the at least one second device with authentication information for the at least one second device to access the wireless access hotspot; and establishing, by the first device and the at least one second device, a first wireless LAN connection according to the initial hotspot information.

2 . The communication method according to claim 1 , wherein the establishing, by the first device and the at least one second device, the first wireless LAN connection according to the initial hotspot information comprises:
establishing, by the first device and a second device that sends a first hotspot connection request or a second device that responds to the initial hotspot information, the first wireless LAN connection according to the initial hotspot information.

3 . The communication method according to claim 1 , wherein after the establishing, by the first device and the at least one second device, the first wireless LAN connection according to the initial hotspot information, the method further comprises:
determining whether a hotspot information modification request exists, wherein the hotspot information modification request comprises at least one of user name modification information, password modification information, or wireless network encryption mode modification information; in response to determining that the hotspot information modification request exists, modifying the initial hotspot information and generating updated hotspot information according to the hotspot information modification request; sending, by the wired communication mode, the updated hotspot information to each of the at least one second device connected with the first device; and establishing, by the first device and the at least one second device, a second wireless LAN connection according to the updated hotspot information.

4 . The communication method according to claim 1 , wherein after the establishing, by the first device and the at least one second device, the first wireless LAN connection according to the initial hotspot information, the method further comprises:
broadcasting a first central control message to each of the at least one second device, and monitoring a LAN broadcast message in a wireless LAN, the first central control message comprising first user datagram protocol (UDP) data and first device information of the first device, the first UDP data configured to trigger a second device to send the LAN broadcast message to the wireless LAN; and implementing a LAN device identification measure according to the monitored LAN broadcast message.

5 . The communication method according to claim 4 , wherein the LAN broadcast message comprises a first device message broadcast by a second device after the second device receives the first central control message, the first device message comprising second device information of the second device; and
the implementing the LAN device identification measure according to the monitored LAN broadcast message comprises: in response to that the first device message is detected, adding the second device information in the first device message to a first LAN device list, the first LAN device list comprising the first device information of the first device and second device information of each of the at least one second device that establishes the first wireless LAN connection with the first device.

6 . The communication method according to claim 4 , wherein the LAN broadcast message comprises a second device message that is broadcast for a first time after each of the at least one second device establishes the first wireless LAN connection with the first device, the second device message comprising second UDP data and second device information of each of the at least one second device; and
the implementing the LAN device identification measure according to the monitored LAN broadcast message comprises: in response to that the second device message is detected, adding the second device information in the second device message to a first LAN device list, broadcasting a second central control message to a second device that broadcasts the second device message, and configuring the second device to add the first device information of the first device in the second central control message to a second LAN device list, the first LAN device list and the second LAN device list comprising the first device information of the first device and the second device information of each of the at least one second device that establishes the first wireless LAN connection with the first device.

7 . The communication method according to claim 6 , wherein after the implementing the LAN device identification measure according to the monitored LAN broadcast message, the method further comprises:
monitoring change information of second devices in the first LAN device list; in response to that the change information indicates that a second device that is not connected with the first device via the first wireless LAN connection is newly added, deleting, from the first LAN device list, the second device that is not connected with the first device via the first wireless LAN connection, to update the first LAN device list; and synchronously broadcasting the change information to each of the at least one second device that establishes the first wireless LAN connection with the first device, to configure each of the at least one second device to delete, from the second LAN device list and according to the change information, the second device that is not connected with the first device via the first wireless LAN connection.

8 . The communication method according to claim 1 , wherein after the establishing, by the first device and each of the at least one second device, the first wireless LAN connection according to the initial hotspot information, the method further comprises:
determining, by the first device, whether to disconnect the first device from one of the at least one second device; in response to determining to disconnect the first device from one of the at least one second device, after the first device receives a second hotspot connection request sent by a second device by the wired communication mode, feeding back, by the wired communication mode, current hotspot information of the wireless access hotspot to the second device that sends the second hotspot connection request; and establishing, by the first device and the second device that sends the second hotspot connection request, the first wireless LAN connection according to the current hotspot information.

9 . The communication method according to claim 1 , wherein the wired communication mode comprises one or more of Ethernet communication, controller area network (CAN) bus communication, or local interconnect network (LIN) communication.

10 . A communication method for a local area network (LAN), applicable to a second device, the method comprising:
determining a first device connected to the second device by a wired communication mode, wherein the first device is configured to provide a wireless access hotspot to the second device; receiving initial hotspot information of the wireless access hotspot sent by the fir

Assignees

• Byd Co Ltd

Inventors

• Sun Xiaoqi
• Zheng Wei
• Tan Kai

Classifications

• H04W84/12

  WLAN [Wireless Local Area Networks] · CPC title

• H04W80/06

  Transport layer protocols, e.g. TCP [Transport Control Protocol] over wireless {(transmission control protocol/Internet protocol [TCP/IP] or user datagram protocol [UDP] H04L69/16)} · CPC title

• H04W12/06

  Authentication · CPC title

• H04W84/18

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

• H04W76/14

  Direct-mode setup · CPC title