Granted Patent B2

US 7,561,693 · App. 10/621,244 · Granted Jul 14, 2009

Abstract

Claims (22)

1. A method for automatically entering into a secure communication mode in a wireless communication terminal, comprising the steps of:

a) storing a voice signal outputted from a vocoder of the wireless communication terminal for a predetermined time;

b) selecting at least one of the voice signal values among which the occurrence of generation is lower than a threshold value to generate a token header data;

c) combining token header data of variable lengths to form a token header and generating a token including the token header, the token header data having the lowest occurrence of generation among voice data outputted from the vocoder of the wireless communication terminal;

d) at a transmission terminal, receiving a request for a secure communication from a user and transmitting the token to a reception terminal; and

e) at the transmission terminal, entering into a secure communication mode based on an acknowledge token received from the reception terminal, and performing secure communication with the reception terminal.

2. The method as recited in claim 1 , wherein the token includes a data having the lowest generation occurrence among the data of voice packet data outputted from the vocoder as a token header.

3. The method as recited in claim 1 , wherein the token is shorter than the maximum length of the voice data outputted from the vocoder.

4. The method as recited in claim 3 , wherein the token includes a key used in an encryption algorithm for the secure communication.

5. The method as recited in claim 1 , wherein in the step d), the token is transmitted repeatedly a predetermined number of times.

6. The method as recited in claim 5 , wherein in the step d), the repeated transmission of the token stops when the acknowledge token from the reception terminal is received.

7. The method as recited in claim 1 , further comprising the steps of:

f) at the reception terminal, receiving the token transmitted from the transmission terminal, and transmitting a token formed in accordance with the step c) as the acknowledge token to the transmission terminal; and

g) at the reception terminal, entering into the secure communication mode and performing secure communication with the transmission terminal.

8. The method as recited in claim 7 , wherein the step f)includes the step of:

h) comparing a session key generated in the transmission terminal and included in the token with a session key generated in the reception terminal using a master key.

9. A computer-readable recording medium for recording a program that implements a method for automatically entering into a secure communication mode in a wireless communication terminal provided with a processor, comprising the steps of:

a) combining token header data of variable lengths to form a token header and generating a token including the token header, the token header data having the lowest occurrence of generation among voice data outputted from a vocoder of the wireless communication terminal;

b) at a transmission terminal, receiving a request for a secure communication from a user and transmitting the token to a reception terminal; and

c) at the transmission terminal, entering into a secure communication mode based on an acknowledge token received from the reception terminal, and performing secure communication with the reception terminal.

10. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

combining the token header data to form the token header of a predetermined length.

Assignments (8)