TWI530119B - Using Near Field Communication Technology to Strengthen the Method of Wireless Network Rights Management - Google Patents

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Method for strengthening wireless network rights management by using near field communication technology

The present invention relates to a method for managing wireless network rights, and more particularly to a mobile electronic device capable of providing networked information to consumers through near field communication (NFC) functions according to consumer behavior. method.

According to the advancement of wireless network technology, the construction of the network is no longer limited by physical lines, such as the IEEE 802.11 protocol specification developed by the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineer (IEEE). It is a communication protocol based on radio technology. Under the above-mentioned communication protocol specifications, the network constructed by it is not limited to physical lines, and the computer or communication equipment can use the network as long as the radio wave is reachable. It can be used to construct a Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN). Thus, the network formed by the wireless technology architecture can be used without physical wiring, saving network architecture costs and being unrestricted. The advantages of the location of the physical wiring.

Because people are familiar with and used to everyday life, such as World Wide Web (WWW), e-mail (e-mail), file transfer (FTP), bulletin board (BBS), remote terminal emulation (telnet) And other network services, therefore, in order to meet people's Internet needs in different environments, and benefit from the rise of the aforementioned wireless network technology, more and more mobile electronic devices with wireless Internet access have been listed, for example: smart phones (Smart Phone), Tablet PC, and E-book Reader, etc., because these mobile electronic devices are not only portable, but also have a wide range of functions, in addition to being able to take pictures, play music, and process papers. It can also send and receive e-mails, download and play streaming media, etc., so that users only need to carry one mobile electronic device, which is like carrying a variety of different types of electronic devices, greatly improving users' use. The convenience of the user and the various work or entertainment needs of the user, so the mobile electronic device has almost become the day of people. One of the usual items.

In view of the high demand for wireless Internet access, many operators usually set up wireless local area networks (also known as airports, stations, coffee shops, libraries), also known as hotspots. Carrying a mobile electronic device capable of receiving a wireless signal (such as a WIFI signal), and accessing the range covered by the radio wave emitted by the hot spot, can connect to the Internet through the hotspot, thereby greatly improving the convenience of use, and simultaneously Merchants who provide hotspot services can also attract people to go and improve the sales performance of the merchants. However, in actual use, many people usually only enjoy the convenience of wireless Internet access, but stay at the merchants, but they have not carried out Any consumer behavior not only causes the bandwidth of the hotspot to be occupied by many people, but also reduces the speed of networking, and also causes the merchant to lose the initiative to attract consumers through hotspots.

In order to establish a connection with the "hotspot", the user must select the service set identifier (Service ID Identifier, SSID) of the currently available hotspot and enter the corresponding password. In order to use the Internet service provided by the hotspot, some operators will not disclose the password. Instead, after confirming that the user has already consumed the password, the password will be provided for the user to successfully connect to the hotspot. However, the foregoing behavior is such that the merchant needs to determine whether the user has consumed the purchase, which makes the operation of the merchant more complicated.

In summary, how to effectively solve the above problems, in order to provide a more convenient way for users to quickly obtain information about the wireless local area network provided by the merchant, and smoothly enable the mobile electronic device and the wireless The establishment of a network connection to the regional network has become an important goal that many operators are striving to develop and want to achieve.

In view of the fact that the merchant still has many problems in the wireless local area network in the management store, for example, it is not easy to distinguish whether the current user has performed the consumption behavior, or needs to provide the networked information after the user consumes, thus inventing After long-term research and experiment, people finally developed and designed a method for strengthening wireless network rights management by using Near Field Communication (NFC) technology, in order to solve the above problems effectively by the present invention. .

An object of the present invention is to provide a method for enhancing wireless network rights management by using Near Field Communication (NFC) technology. a mobile electronic device, an account control device, an authentication server, and a wireless base station, wherein the mobile electronic device includes a first NFC unit and a wireless unit, and the account control device includes a second An NFC unit, the second NFC unit can establish a connection with the first NFC unit, the authentication server is respectively connected to the account control device, the wireless base station and the Internet, and the method is received by the account control device After a payment processing device sends a consumption amount message, the account control device generates an account request message, and sends the account request message to the authentication server, and the authentication server requests the content of the message according to the account. Generating an account number, a password corresponding to the account number, and a usage period. After that, the network information including at least the account number and the password is wrapped into a wireless Internet message and transmitted to the account control device, and the account control device will The networked data is stored in the second NFC unit, and the mobile electronic device starts an application to make the first NFC unit The second NFC unit establishes a connection to receive the networked data transmitted by the second NFC unit, and performs wireless network setting according to the networked information, and then transmits a wireless networked message to the wireless unit through the wireless unit to the a wireless base station, the wireless base station transmitting the wireless networking message to the authentication server, the authentication server reading the wireless networking message, verifying the correctness of the account and the password, and determining the use of the corresponding account Whether the deadline has not expired, and if so, the mobile electronic device is connected to the Internet through the wireless base station, and if not, the connection is disconnected, so that the consumer can quickly use the mobile electronic device after spending a certain amount of money. The company obtains the network information of the merchant and conveniently uses the wireless Internet service provided by the merchant. At the same time, the merchant can also avoid the unpopulated mass and occupy the bandwidth of the wireless network provided by the merchant.

For your convenience, the review committee can make a further understanding and understanding of the purpose, technical features and effects of the present invention. The embodiments are combined with the drawings, and the details are as follows:

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11‧‧‧Mobile electronic devices

111‧‧‧First NFC unit

113‧‧‧Wireless unit

13‧‧‧ account control device

131‧‧‧Second NFC unit

14‧‧‧ payment processing device

15‧‧‧Authentication server

17‧‧‧Wireless base station

19‧‧‧Internet

1 is a schematic diagram of a network architecture of the present invention; and FIG. 2 is a flowchart of the present invention, wherein FIG. 2 is divided into a 2A diagram and a 2B diagram, and the junction is A.

Check, Near Field Communication (NFC), Known as short-range wireless communication, it is a short-range high-frequency wireless communication technology that enables two electronic devices (such as smart phones, tablets, cameras, or devices with NFC tags, etc.) at a distance of 20 cm. In the non-contact point-to-point data transmission, the maximum data transmission capacity of NFC is 424k bit/s, and it is a short-distance communication characteristic, and its power consumption is low, and only one device is connected at a time and NFC is connected. The pairing speed is fast, and it has high confidentiality and security. In addition, NFC has passed ISO/IEC IS 18092 international standard, EMCA-340 standard and ETSI TS 102 190 standard, and is compatible with many wireless transmission capabilities. In view of this, the inventors have utilized the communication characteristics of NFC to develop a method for enhancing wireless network rights management using near field communication technology.

Referring to FIG. 1 , the method is applied to a network architecture such as a mobile electronic device 11 , an account control device 13 , an authentication server 15 , and a wireless base station 17 , wherein the mobile electronic device 11 includes a first NFC unit 111 and a wireless unit 113, the first NFC unit 111 can be an NFC tag or other NFC communication capable component, as long as the first NFC unit 111 can establish a communication link with other NFC devices, that is, The invention is referred to as the first NFC unit 111. In addition, the wireless unit 113 can search for external radio waves and establish a connection to connect to a wireless local area network. In this embodiment, the wireless unit 113 can The wireless base stations 17 are connected. In addition, the account control device 13 includes a second NFC unit 131, which is similar to the first NFC unit 111, and can be an NFC tag or other component with NFC communication capability, and can be established with other NFC devices. In the embodiment, the second NFC unit 131 can establish a connection with the first NFC unit 111. The process of establishing a connection between the second NFC unit 131 and the first NFC unit 111 is The conventional technology is not described here, as long as the NFC units 111 and 131 can establish a connection and exchange data with each other, that is, the second NFC unit 131 and the first NFC unit 111 are referred to in the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 1, the account control device 13 is still connected to a payment processing device 14 (eg, a cash register) and can receive the message transmitted by the payment processing device 14, in this embodiment, Although the account control device 13 and the payment processing device 14 are two separate devices, the operator can integrate the account control device 13 and the payment processing device 14 according to actual needs, and the authentication server 15 respectively Linked to the account control device 13, the wireless The base station 17 and the Internet 19 (Internet) are capable of receiving the message transmitted by the account control device 13 and the wireless base station 17, and can transmit a message to the account control device 13 and the wireless base station 17, and The network information connected to the wireless local area network, for example, an account number and a password corresponding to one of the accounts, can be used. However, in other embodiments of the present invention, the authentication server 15 can be configured according to actual needs. The wireless base station 17 is integrated into one, and the first is Chen Ming.

Referring to FIG. 1 , after the user consumes the predetermined amount in the merchant, the merchant uses the payment processing device 14 to perform a checkout process, and after the payment processing device 14 generates a consumption amount message, the payment processing device 14 will send the consumption amount message to the account control device 13 by wire or wirelessly, and when the account control device 13 receives the consumption amount message, it will generate an account request message according to the consumption amount message, and The account request message is sent to the authentication server 15, wherein the account request message can further include the user's consumption amount, and then the authentication server 15 requests the content of the message according to the account, and generates an account and a corresponding account. One password, and the account and the password are stored. At the same time, the authentication server 15 calculates a usage period based on the consumption amount, and stores the usage period in the address corresponding to the account number and password. In other embodiments of the present invention, the usage period can be consumed by the account control device 13 according to the consumption amount message. Calculated, in this way, the account control device 13 will package the expiration date into the account request message, so that the authentication server 15 stores the expiration date in the address corresponding to the account and the password.

In addition, as shown in FIG. 1 , the authentication server 15 packages the network information such as the account number, the password and the expiration date into a wireless Internet message, and transmits the information to the account control device 13, and the account control device 13 can The wireless internet message is read, and the networked data is stored in the second NFC unit 131. However, in particular, the networked information of the present invention can include only the account number and password, and does not need to include the use period, that is, the authentication server 15 can only The self-storing is not transmitted to the account control device 13; or the networked information can include more information, such as advertisements or business listings, which have met the needs of the merchant's marketing.

Referring to FIG. 1 , after the user has completed the consumption, the mobile electronic device 11 can activate an application and the mobile electronic device 11 is adjacent to the second NFC unit 131. At this time, the application The program causes the first NFC unit 111 and the second NFC unit After the connection is established, the second NFC unit 131 transmits the networked data to the mobile electronic device 11, and the mobile electronic device 11 can perform wireless network setting according to the networked information. The foregoing setting manner can be manually input by the user to view the networked information (such as an account number and a password), or automatically set by the mobile electronic device 11 to automatically read the networked data, and the mobile electronic device 11 is automatically set. A wireless networking message is transmitted to the wireless base station 17 through the wireless unit 113, wherein the wireless networking message includes at least the account number and password, and after the wireless base station 17 receives the wireless networking message, it will The wireless networking message is transmitted to the authentication server 15, so that the authentication server 15 can verify the correctness of the account and the password in the wireless networked message, and the authentication server 15 can still be based on the account. Reading the usage period of the corresponding account and determining whether the usage period has expired. If the usage period has not expired, the verification server 15 transmits a verification correct message to the wireless base. The station 17 is configured to connect the mobile electronic device 11 to the Internet 19 through the wireless base station 17; if the usage period expires, the connection between the mobile electronic device 11 and the wireless base station 17 is interrupted. The consumer can quickly obtain the network information of the wireless local area network provided by the merchant through the mobile electronic device 11 after the predetermined amount of money is consumed, and can conveniently use the wireless Internet service provided by the merchant, and the merchant can also It is convenient to manage wireless network rights, and to avoid the unconsumed masses, occupying the bandwidth of the wireless network provided by them, to protect the online interests of consumers who consume.

In order to clearly disclose the method of the present invention, only the processing flow of the present invention will be described below. Please refer to FIGS. 1 and 2A and 2B: (201) The account control device 13 determines whether the payment has been received. The payment amount message sent by the processing device 14 is, if yes, proceeding to step (202), otherwise, returning to step (201); (202) the account control device 13 generates an account request message and sends the account request message to the account The authentication server 15 proceeds to step (203); (203) the authentication server 15 generates an account number and a network address corresponding to one of the account passwords, and proceeds to step (204); (204) the authentication server 15 will at least The networked information including the account number and the password is encapsulated into a wireless Internet message, and transmitted to the account control device 13, and proceeds to step (205); (205) the account control device 13 stores the networked data to the second NFC unit. 131, proceeds to step (206); (206) the second NFC unit 131 establishes a connection with the first NFC unit 111, and proceeds to step (207); (207) the second NFC unit 131 transmits the networked data to the first NFC unit 111. The mobile electronic device 11 proceeds to step (208); (208) the mobile electronic device 11 performs wireless network setting according to the networked data, and transmits a wireless networking message to the wireless base station 17 through the wireless unit 113 to enter Step (209); (209) the wireless base station 17 transmits the wireless networking message to the authentication server 15, and proceeds to step (210); (210) the authentication server 15 verifies whether the account and password are correct, and if Go to step (211), otherwise, go to step (214); (211) the authentication server 15 determines whether the usage period of one of the account accounts has not expired, and if so, proceeds to step (212), otherwise, proceeds to step ( 214); (212) the authentication server 15 transmits a verification correct message to the wireless base station 17, and the mobile electronic device 11 is connected to the Internet 19 through the wireless base station 17, and proceeds to step (213); (213) The authentication server 15 determines whether the usage period of the corresponding account has been used. Period, and if so, proceed to step (214), returning to step (213); (214) 17 disconnect between the mobile electronic device 11 and the wireless base station.

As shown in Figure 1, through the above method, the merchant can actually use the Internet access service provided by the user who has already consumed, and can adjust the user's online time according to the user's consumption amount, It is avoided that the bandwidth of the wireless network provided by the user is occupied by the unconsumed user. In addition, since the connection distance of the NFC is short, the user needs to bring the mobile electronic device close to the account control device 13, so that the NFC has The security and convenience can also ensure that the networked information generated by the authentication server 15 is not easily stolen by malicious persons, thereby effectively protecting the rights and interests of the merchant.

The above is only the preferred embodiment of the present invention, but the scope of the claims of the present invention is not limited thereto, and according to those skilled in the art, according to the technical content disclosed in the present invention, Equivalent changes that are easily considered are within the scope of protection of the invention.

Claims (9)

A method for enhancing wireless network rights management by using near field communication technology is applied to a mobile electronic device, an account control device, an authentication server, and a wireless base station, wherein the mobile electronic device includes a first near field a communication unit and a wireless unit, the account control device includes a second near field communication unit, the second near field communication unit can establish a connection with the first near field communication unit, and the authentication server is respectively connected to the account control The device, the wireless base station, and the Internet, the method includes the following steps: the account control device receives a payment amount message sent by a payment processing device; the account control device generates an account request message according to the consumption amount message, and Sending the account request message to the authentication server; the authentication server requests the content of the message according to the account, generates an account number and the network information corresponding to one of the account passwords, and requests the amount of the message according to the account. Calculating the usage period corresponding to the account, and wrapping the networked information into a wireless Internet message And transmitting to the account control device; the mobile electronic device starts an application to establish a connection between the first near field communication unit and the second near field communication unit; the account control device passes the first near field communication a connection between the unit and the second near field communication unit, and transmitting the networked data to the mobile electronic device; The mobile electronic device performs wireless network setting according to the networked data, and transmits a wireless networking message to the wireless base station through the wireless unit; the wireless base station transmits the wireless networking message to the authentication server; And the authentication server reads the wireless networking message, and verifies that the account and the password are correct, and determines that the usage period of the corresponding account has not expired, so that the mobile electronic device connects to the Internet through the wireless base station. network. The method of claim 1, wherein the authentication server verifies that the account number and the password are incorrect, and the connection between the mobile electronic device and the wireless base station is interrupted. The method of claim 2, wherein the authentication server determines that the usage period of the corresponding account has expired, and disconnects the connection between the mobile electronic device and the wireless base station. The method of claim 3, after the mobile electronic device is connected to the Internet through the wireless base station, the authentication server further performs the following steps: determining whether the expiration date of the corresponding account expires, and determining When the expiration date of the account is expired, the connection between the mobile electronic device and the wireless base station is interrupted. The method of claim 4, wherein the networked data further includes the period of use. The method of claim 5, wherein the wireless networking message includes at least the account number, password, and expiration date. The method of claim 4, wherein the expiration date is stored in an address of the authentication server corresponding to the account number and password. A method for enhancing wireless network rights management by using near field communication technology is applied to an account control device, wherein the account control device comprises a near field communication unit, and the method comprises the following steps: receiving one of the payment processing devices The consumption amount message; generating an account request message according to the consumption amount message, and sending the account request message to an authentication server, and calculating a usage period according to the consumption amount carried by the consumption amount message; receiving the authentication server According to the account requesting information, one of the wireless Internet messages generated and transmitted, the wireless Internet message includes at least one account and a network connection corresponding to one of the account passwords; and determining the near field communication unit and a mobile electronic device When the other near field communication unit of the device has established a connection, the networked data is transmitted to the mobile electronic device, so that the mobile electronic device can perform wireless network setting according to the connected network information, and The base station is connected to the internet. The method of claim 8, wherein the account request message further includes the expiration date, so that the authentication server can control the connection time between the mobile electronic device and the wireless base station.