# US 11,310,871 B2 · Distribution system, distribution method and recording medium for acquiring identification information of a gateway > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 11,310,871 B2 - Document ID: US11310871B2 - Status: Granted - Kind: B2 - Application number: 17/023,872 - Filed: 2020-09-17 - Published: 2021-04-01 - Granted: 2022-04-19 - Earliest claimed: 2019-09-27 - Assignees: NEC Corporation - Applicants: NEC Corporation - Inventors: Keisuke Ina - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US11310871B2 ## CPC - H04L 12/14: Charging, metering or billing arrangements specially adapted for data communications, e.g. authentication, authorisation and accounting [AAA] framework - H04W 88/16: Gateway arrangements - H04L 67/12: specially adapted for proprietary or special-purpose networking environments, e.g. medical networks, sensor networks, networks in vehicles or remote metering networks - H04L 67/562: Brokering proxy services - H04M 15/31: {Distributed metering or calculation of charges} - H04W 4/06: Selective distribution of broadcast services, e.g. multimedia broadcast multicast service [MBMS]; Services to user groups; One-way selective calling services - H04W 4/24: Accounting or billing - H04W 76/11: Allocation or use of connection identifiers - H04W 80/02: Data link layer protocols - H04L: TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION (arrangements common to telegraphic and telephonic communication H04M) - H04W: WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS (broadcast communication H04H; communication systems using wireless links for non-selective communication, e.g. wireless extensions H04M1/72) - H04M: TELEPHONIC COMMUNICATION (circuits for controlling other apparatus via a telephone cable and not involving telephone switching apparatus G08) ## Abstract A distribution system includes: a gateway to be a kitting target; and a distribution server that distributes, to the gateway, kitting data associated with gateway identification information of the gateway, the distribution system further including a mobile terminal that acquires the gateway identification information wirelessly transmitted from the gateway and transmits the acquired gateway identification information to the distribution server, wherein the distribution server associates the gateway identification information transmitted from the mobile terminal, with the kitting data. ## Claims ### Claim 1 A distribution system comprising: a gateway; and a distribution server that receives terminal identification information of a mobile terminal and gateway identification information of the gateway from the mobile terminal, associates the gateway identification information with kitting data associated with the terminal identification information, wherein the kitting data is data for executing initial setting or installation of software of the gateway and the distribution server distributes, to the gateway, the kitting data associated with gateway identification information of the gateway, wherein the mobile terminal acquires the gateway identification information wirelessly transmitted from the gateway and transmits the acquired gateway identification information associated with the terminal identification information to the distribution server. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The distribution system according to claim 1, wherein the gateway transmits the gateway identification information by broadcasting, and the mobile terminal receives the broadcasted gateway identification information. ### Claim 3 (depends on 1) The distribution system according to claim 1, wherein the gateway identification information is a MAC address of a communication unit included in the gateway or a specific number allocated to the gateway. ### Claim 4 (depends on 1) The distribution system according to claim 1, wherein the gateway transmits the gateway identification information stored in the gateway and a kitting data request to the distribution server. ### Claim 5 (depends on 1) The distribution system according to claim 1, wherein the distribution server calculates, based on a number of distributions of the kitting data to the gateway, billing information for kitting of the gateway. ### Claim 6 (depends on 1) The distribution system according to claim 1, wherein the distribution server acquires user information and the terminal identification information, acquires the user information and the kitting data and associates the terminal identification information with the kitting data based on the user information. ### Claim 7 A distribution method for a distribution system including a gateway and a distribution server, the distribution method comprising: by the distribution server, receiving terminal identification information of a mobile terminal and gateway identification information of the gateway from the mobile terminal, associating the gateway identification information with kitting data associated with the terminal identification information, wherein the kitting data is data for executing initial setting or installation of software of the gateway, and distributing, to the gateway, the kitting data associated with the gateway identification information of the gateway, wherein the mobile terminal acquires the gateway identification information wirelessly transmitted from the gateway and transmits the acquired gateway identification information associated with the terminal identification information to the distribution server. ### Claim 8 A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium storing a distribution program for a distribution system including a gateway and a distribution server, the program causing the distribution server to: receive terminal identification information of a mobile terminal and gateway identification information of the gateway from the mobile terminal, associate the gateway identification information with kitting data associated with the terminal identification information, wherein the kitting data is data for executing initial setting of the gateway or installation of software, and distribute, to the gateway, the kitting data associated with the gateway identification information of the gateway, wherein the mobile terminal acquires the gateway identification information wirelessly transmitted from the gateway and transmits the acquired gateway identification information associated with the terminal identification information to the distribution server.