Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and program

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9425892-B2
Application number	US-201314434762-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Oct 7, 2013
Priority date	Oct 16, 2012
Publication date	Aug 23, 2016
Grant date	Aug 23, 2016

Abstract

The present disclosure relates to an information processing apparatus, an information processing method, and a program which are capable of swiftly starting wireless data communication between a pair of electronic devices. An information processing apparatus as one aspect of the present disclosure includes an information management unit for categorizing setting information that is obtained as a result of a connection setting process for performing wireless data communication between electronic devices as preferred information that is not deleted at a time of an initialization process or as non-preferred information that is deleted at a time of the initialization process, and managing the setting information. The present disclosure may be applied to electronic devices provided with a bluetooth interface.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. An information processing apparatus comprising:
an information management unit configured to categorize setting information that is obtained as a result of a connection setting process for performing wireless data communication between electronic devices;
a connection setting processing unit configured to perform the connection setting process for performing wireless data communication with another information processing apparatus; and
an initialization processing unit configured to perform an initialization process,
wherein the information management unit is configured to categorize the setting information that is obtained as a result of the connection setting process with the other information processing apparatus by the connection setting processing unit as preferred information that is not deleted at a time of the initialization process or as non-preferred information that is deleted at a time of the initialization process, and to manage the setting information.

2. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the information management unit is configured to manage, as the preferred information, the setting information that is generated as a result of the connection setting process performed with the other information processing apparatus which is a preferred connection counterpart with which connection is to be preferentially performed.

3. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein, in a case where there is no non-preferred information at a time of activation, the information management unit is configured to restore the setting information which is the non-preferred information based on the setting information that is managed as the preferred information.

4. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein, in a case where the connection setting process is performed again with the other information processing apparatus which is a preferred connection counterpart, the information management unit is configured to update the preferred information by the setting information that is generated again as a result.

5. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the information management unit is configured to manage, as the preferred information, the setting information that is generated as a result of the connection setting process that is performed with the other information processing apparatus that is shipped packaged together.

6. The information processing apparatus according to claim 1 , further comprising:
a changing unit configured to change the other information processing apparatus which is a preferred connection counterpart according to a predetermined selection criterion.

7. The information processing apparatus according to claim 6 , wherein the changing unit is configured to change the preferred connection counterpart based on connection history information, as the predetermined selection criterion, with respect to the other information processing apparatus.

8. An information processing method for an information processing apparatus, the method comprising:
categorizing setting information that is obtained as a result of a connection setting process for performing wireless data communication between electronic devices;
performing the connection setting process for performing wireless data communication with another information processing apparatus;
performing an initialization process, wherein the categorization of the setting information that is obtained as a result of the connection setting process with the other information processing apparatus categorizes the setting information as preferred information that is not deleted at a time of the initialization process or as non-preferred information that is deleted at a time of the initialization process; and
managing the setting information.

9. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having stored thereon a set of computer-executable instructions for causing a computer to perform the steps comprising:
categorizing setting information that is obtained as a result of a connection setting process for performing wireless data communication between electronic devices;
performing the connection setting process for performing wireless data communication with another information processing apparatus;
performing an initialization process, wherein the categorization of the setting information that is obtained as a result of the connection setting process with the other information processing apparatus categorizes the setting information as preferred information that is not deleted at a time of the initialization process or as non-preferred information that is deleted at a time of the initialization process; and
managing the setting information.

Assignees

• Sony Corp

Inventors

• Murayama Kei
• Hasegawa Masataka
• Shimizu Masahiro
• OSUGI Satoru

Classifications

• H04W84/18

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

• H04W8/005

  Discovery of network devices, e.g. terminals · CPC title

• H04B7/26 Primary

  at least one of which is mobile · CPC title