# US 2014/0194119 A1 · Wireless communication apparatus, information processing apparatus, communication system, and method of controlling wireless communication apparatus > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 2014/0194119 A1 - Document ID: US20140194119A1 - Status: Published application - Kind: A1 - Application number: 14/232,431 - Filed: 2012-06-15 - Published: 2014-07-10 - Earliest claimed: 2011-07-22 - Assignees: Sony Corporation - Inventors: Masanori Sato - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US20140194119A1 ## CPC - H04W 12/06: Authentication - H04L 63/10: {for controlling access to devices or network resources} - H04L 63/104: {Grouping of entities} - H04W 8/183: {Processing at user equipment or user record carrier} - H04W 8/24: Transfer of terminal data - H04W 48/18: Selecting a network or a communication service - H04W 60/00: Affiliation to network, e.g. registration; Terminating affiliation with the network, e.g. de-registration - H04W 76/11: Allocation or use of connection identifiers - H04W 4/70: Services for machine-to-machine communication [M2M] or machine type communication [MTC] - H04W 84/042: {Public Land Mobile systems, e.g. cellular systems} - H04W: WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS (broadcast communication H04H; communication systems using wireless links for non-selective communication, e.g. wireless extensions H04M1/72) - H04L: TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION (arrangements common to telegraphic and telephonic communication H04M) ## Abstract Provided is a wireless communication apparatus including an accepting unit that accepts a transfer operation to transfer a connection right from a first wireless communication apparatus to which the connection right to connect to a predetermined network using wireless communication is set to a second wireless communication apparatus to which the connection right is not set, and a control unit that, when the transfer operation is accepted, transmits a transfer request that requests the connection right to be transferred from the first wireless communication apparatus to the second wireless communication apparatus with information included in the transfer request, the information being used for synchronizing data in the second wireless communication apparatus with predetermined data in the first wireless communication apparatus. ## Claims ### Claim 1 A wireless communication apparatus comprising: an accepting unit that accepts a transfer operation to transfer a connection right from a first wireless communication apparatus to which the connection right to connect to a predetermined network using wireless communication is set to a second wireless communication apparatus to which the connection right is not set; and a control unit that, when the transfer operation is accepted, transmits a transfer request that requests the connection right to be transferred from the first wireless communication apparatus to the second wireless communication apparatus with information included in the transfer request, the information being used for synchronizing data in the second wireless communication apparatus with predetermined data in the first wireless communication apparatus. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The wireless communication apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the wireless communication apparatus is the first wireless communication apparatus, wherein a group sharing the connection right is constituted of a plurality of wireless communication apparatuses including the first wireless communication apparatus and the second wireless communication apparatus, wherein, when the transfer operation is accepted, the control unit transmits the transfer request and the predetermined data to a management system that manages the group, and wherein, when the transfer request and the predetermined data are received, the management system transmits setting information to set the connection right to the second wireless communication apparatus to cause the second wireless communication apparatus to set the connection right and transmits the predetermined data to the second wireless communication apparatus to exercise control to synchronize the data in the second wireless communication apparatus with the predetermined data. ### Claim 3 (depends on 2) The wireless communication apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the control unit transmits the transfer request including the predetermined data to the management system as the information for synchronization, and wherein the management system transmits the setting information to the second wireless communication apparatus with the predetermined data included in the setting information. ### Claim 4 (depends on 2) The wireless communication apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the management system is an RO (Registration Operator), and wherein, when the predetermined data is received from the first wireless communication apparatus, the RO holds the predetermined data and transmits the held predetermined data to the second wireless communication apparatus. ### Claim 5 (depends on 4) The wireless communication apparatus according to claim 4, wherein, when the predetermined data is held, the RO notifies the second wireless communication apparatus that the predetermined data is held. ### Claim 6 (depends on 4) The wireless communication apparatus according to claim 4, wherein the RO deletes the held predetermined data after the held predetermined data is transmitted to the second wireless communication apparatus. ### Claim 7 (depends on 4) The wireless communication apparatus according to claim 4, wherein, when the predetermined data is not transmitted to the second wireless communication apparatus for a predetermined time or longer after the predetermined data is held, the RO deletes the predetermined data and does not transmit the predetermined data to the second wireless communication apparatus. ### Claim 8 (depends on 7) The wireless communication apparatus according to claim 7, wherein the accepting unit accepts a specifying operation to specify the predetermined time, wherein, when the specifying operation is accepted, the control unit transmits, to the RO, time information about the specified predetermined time in association with the predetermined data, and wherein the RO deletes the predetermined data using the predetermined time related to the time information transmitted in association with the predetermined data. ### Claim 9 (depends on 2) The wireless communication apparatus according to claim 2, wherein the wireless communication apparatus to which the connection right is set among the plurality of wireless communication apparatuses constituting the group is connectable to an SHO (Selected Home Operator) based on the connection right, and wherein the wireless communication apparatus to which the connection right is not set among the plurality of wireless communication apparatuses constituting the group is connectable only to the RO. ### Claim 10 (depends on 1) The wireless communication apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the wireless communication apparatus is the second wireless communication apparatus, wherein a group sharing the connection right is constituted of a plurality of wireless communication apparatuses including the first wireless communication apparatus and the second wireless communication apparatus, wherein, when the transfer operation is accepted, the control unit transmits the transfer request to a management system that manages the group, and wherein, when the transfer request is received, the management system transmits a transfer confirmation request to request permission of transfer concerning the transfer request to the first wireless communication apparatus, and when transfer confirmation information permitting the transfer concerning the transfer confirmation request and the predetermined data are transmitted from the first wireless communication apparatus, the management system transmits setting information to set the connection right to the second wireless communication apparatus to cause the second wireless communication apparatus to set the connection right and transmits the predetermined data to the second wireless communication apparatus to exercise control to synchronize the data in the second wireless communication apparatus with the predetermined data. ### Claim 11 (depends on 10) The wireless communication apparatus according to claim 10, wherein the first wireless communication apparatus transmits the transfer confirmation information to the management system with the predetermined data included in the transfer confirmation information, and wherein the management system transmits the setting information to the second wireless communication apparatus with the predetermined data included in the setting information. ### Claim 12 (depends on 1) The wireless communication apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the predetermined data is content intended for a data synchronization process between the first wireless communication apparatus and the second wireless communication apparatus. ### Claim 13 (depends on 12) The wireless communication apparatus according to claim 12, wherein the control unit transmits the transfer request including the information to synchronize the content in the second wireless communication apparatus with newly updated content in the first wireless communication apparatus. ### Claim 14 (depends on 1) The wireless communication apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the accepting unit accepts the transfer operation and a synchronization instruction operation to synchronize the data in the second wireless communication apparatus with the predetermined data, and wherein the control unit transmits the transfer request when the transfer operation and the synchronization instruction operation are accepted, and the control unit transmits the transfer request without including the information for synchronization in the transfer request when only the transfer operation is accepted. ### Claim 15 (depends on 1) The wireless communication apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the connection right is a right to connect to a base station based on contract authentication information to connect to the base station operated by a communication operator. ### Claim 16 An information processing apparatus comprising: a receiving unit that receives a transfer request that requests a connection right to be transferred from a first wireless communication apparatus to which the connection right to connect to a predetermined network using wireless communication is set to a second wireless communication apparatus to which the connection right is not set, the transfer request including information used for synchronizing data in the second wireless communication apparatus with predetermined data in the first wireless communication apparatus; and a control unit that, when the transfer request is received, transmits setting information to set the connection right to the second wireless communication apparatus to cause the second wireless communication apparatus to set the connection right and transmits the predetermined data to the second wireless communication apparatus to exercise control to synchronize the data in the second wireless communication apparatus with the predetermined data. ### Claim 17 A communication system comprising: a wireless communication apparatus including an accepting unit that accepts a transfer operation to transfer a connection right from a first wireless communication apparatus to which the connection right to connect to a predetermined network using wireless communication is set to a second wireless communication apparatus to which the connection right is not set and a control unit that, when the transfer operation is accepted, transmits a transfer request that requests the connection right to be transferred from the first wireless communication apparatus to the second wireless communication apparatus with information included in the transfer request, the information being used for synchronizing data in the second wireless communication apparatus with predetermined data in the first wireless communication apparatus; and an information processing apparatus that, when the transfer request is received, transmits setting information to set the connection right to the second wireless communication apparatus to cause the second wireless communication apparatus to set the connection right and transmits the predetermined data to the second wireless communication apparatus to exercise control to synchronize the data in the second wireless communication apparatus with the predetermined data. ### Claim 18 A method of controlling a wireless communication apparatus comprising: an acceptance procedure of accepting a transfer operation to transfer a connection right from a first wireless communication apparatus to which the connection right to connect to a predetermined network using wireless communication is set to a second wireless communication apparatus to which the connection right is not set; and a transmission procedure of transmitting, when the transfer operation is accepted, a transfer request that requests the connection right to be transferred from the first wireless communication apparatus to the second wireless communication apparatus with information included in the transfer request, the information being used for synchronizing data in the second wireless communication apparatus with predetermined data in the first wireless communication apparatus.