Home appliance and mobile terminal having application for registering the home appliance to server
AssigneeLG Electronics Inc.
InventorSuhwan Lee
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Abstract
A home appliance configured to be registered in a server, the home appliance includes: a wireless fidelity (Wi-Fi) module, based on the home appliance being registered in the server, communicatively connected to an access point (AP) and configured to periodically operate in an AP mode through a virtual interface, and a controller configured to control the Wi-Fi module to periodically operate in the AP mode. The Wi-Fi module is configured to generate a beacon signal to search for an unregistered home appliance based on the Wi-Fi module being operated in the AP mode.
Claims8
A home appliance configured to be registered in a server, comprising:
- a wireless fidelity (Wi-Fi) module, based on the home appliance being registered in the server, communicatively connected to an access point (AP) and configured to periodically operate in an AP mode through a virtual interface;
- and
- a controller configured to control the Wi-Fi module to periodically operate in the AP mode,
- wherein the Wi-Fi module is configured to generate a beacon signal to search for an unregistered home appliance based on the Wi-Fi module being operated in the AP mode,
- wherein the Wi-Fi module is configured to use a hidden service set identifier (SSID) based on the Wi-Fi module being operated in the AP mode,
- wherein the controller is configured to control, based on the virtual interface receiving a communication connection request from an unregistered home appliance that recognized the hidden SSID, the Wi-Fi module to be communicatively connected to the unregistered home appliance that recognized the hidden SSID,
- wherein the Wi-Fi module is configured to receive AP information from the AP, and
- wherein the controller is configured to:
- obtain the AP information, and
- control, based on the Wi-Fi module receiving a registration confirmation key input completion signal from the communicatively-connected unregistered home appliance, the Wi-Fi module to (i) transmit the obtained AP information to the communicatively-connected unregistered home appliance and (ii) transmit the registration confirmation key input completion signal to the server through the AP.
A home appliance configured to be registered in a server, comprising:
- a Wi-Fi module having a virtual interface;
- and
- a controller configured, based on the home appliance not being registered in a server, to control the Wi-Fi module to search for a registered home appliance transmitting a beacon signal and determine whether a hidden SSID included in the beacon signal of the searched registered home appliance matches a preset hidden SSID stored in a list,
- wherein the controller is configured to:
- control, based on the controller determined that the hidden SSID of the searched registered home appliance matches the preset hidden SSID stored in the list, the Wi-Fi module to attempt communication connection to the searched registered home appliance,
- control, based on the Wi-Fi module being communicatively connected to the searched registered home appliance, the Wi-Fi module to transmit a push signal to the communicatively-connected registered home appliance, and
- control, based on the Wi-Fi module receiving a registration confirmation request from the communicatively-connected registered home appliance and a registration confirmation key input being determined from a user, the Wi-Fi module to transmit a registration confirmation key input completion signal to the registered home appliance.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.