US 11,895,738 B2Granted

Electronic device for providing Wi-Fi communication and mobile hotspot communication and method thereof

AssigneeSamsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

InventorsJungkuk Seo, Seungjae Lee, Sungjun Kim

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Abstract

An electronic device includes a housing, at least one antenna located in the housing, a Wi-Fi module that is electrically connected with the at least one antenna, supports a Wi-Fi protocol, and includes one core, a processor that is located in the housing and is operatively connected with the Wi-Fi module, and a memory operatively connected with the processor. The memory stores instructions, when executed, causing the processor to establish a Wi-Fi link on a first channel with an access point (AP), through the Wi-Fi module, establish a mobile hotspot link on the first channel with an external electronic device, through the Wi-Fi module, detect an event associated with a change in state of the Wi-Fi link, and change a state of the mobile hotspot link, based at least on the detected event.

Claims16

Dependent claims

A portable communication device comprising:

a wireless communication circuit;
and
a processor coupled with the wireless communication circuit, the processor configured to:
establish, using the wireless communication circuit, a Wi-Fi link via a first channel with an access point (AP) based on a first power;
obtain an input to establish a mobile hotspot link with an external electronic device while the Wi-Fi link is established between the portable communication device and the AP, the external electronic device being different from the AP;
establish, using the wireless communication circuit, the mobile hotspot link via the first channel with the external electronic device based on a second power lower than the first power while the Wi-Fi link is established between the portable communication device and the AP;
transmit, using the wireless communication circuit, a first signal to the AP based on the first power while the Wi-Fi link is maintained between the portable communication device and the AP;
and
transmit, using the wireless communication circuit, a second signal to the external electronic device based on the second power while the mobile hotspot link is maintained between the portable communication device and the external electronic device.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 17/902,956Filed 5 Sep 2022 · continuation
Priority: KR 10-2018-004861226 Apr 2018
Published: US 2022/0418042 A129 Dec 2022
Granted: 6 Feb 2024
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification8 codes

H04W 88/06
Terminal devices: adapted for operation in multiple networks or having at least two operational modes, e.g. multi-mode terminals
H04W 4/80
Services specially adapted for wireless communication networks; Facilities therefor: services using short range communication, e.g. near-field…
H04W 8/06
Processing of mobility data, e.g. registration information at HLR [Home Location Register] or VLR [Visitor Location Register]; Transfer of…:…
H04W 48/16
Access restriction ; Network selection; Access point selection: discovering, processing access restriction or access information

Family

PCT/KR2019/003084Parent of this continuation · filed 18 Mar 2019
US 2022/0418042 A1Pre-grant publication · published 29 Dec 2022
Application17/047,180Parent of this continuation
US 11,438,966 B2Parent of this continuation
US 2021/0153294 A1Published application
US 11,895,738 B2This patent

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