IP Library Granted Patent US 10,841,151
Granted Patent B2
US 10,841,151 · App. 14/418,207 · Granted Nov 17, 2020

Method and system for configuring a user equipment

Inventors: Xavier Costa Perez (Heidelberg, DE); Arnau Vives Guasch (Valls, ES)
Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
H04L41/0806H04B5/0031H04L41/0883H04L67/306H04W12/0605H04W4/80H04W8/20
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Patent No.
US 10,841,151
App. No.
14/418,207
Granted
Nov 17, 2020
Kind
B2
Abstract

The invention relates to a method for configuring a user equipment, comprising the steps of a) accessing user related information, preferably account information, on the user equipment, b) transmitting the user related information to a dedicated configuration server, c) matching the user related information to a specific configuration information, d) upon matching, transmitting the configuration information to the user equipment, e) configuring the user equipment with the configuration information, and wherein initiation of the steps a)-e) is performed by a one-touch-client and wherein the configuration server is provided as a one-touch-server. The invention also relates to a system for configuring a user equipment.

Claims (17)

1. A first user device configured to communicate with a second user device and to grant the second user device access to a network that is within range of the second user device, the first user device comprising:

a touch panel display;

a memory; and

a controller comprising at least one processor and computer-readable memory storing program instructions that when executed by the at least one processor, cause the at least one processor to control:

storing in the memory information related to the second user device, configuration information for accessing the network and network identification information associated with the network;

receiving information related to the second user device and network identification information associated with the network from the second user device;

and

comparing the received information related to the second user device with the stored information related to the second user device and comparing the received network identification information associated with the network with the stored network identification information associated with the network;

wherein when results of the comparisons are a match: displaying on the touch panel first information associated with the second user device, second information associated with the network, a first icon and a second icon,

wherein after the first icon is touched configuration information is sent to the second user device, and

wherein after the second icon is touched configuration information is not sent to the second user device.

2. The first user device of claim 1 , wherein the controller is further configured to send a rejection message in response to detecting a touch to the second icon.

3. The first user device of claim 1 , wherein the first user device is configured to store a list of networks to which the first user device can grant access.

4. The first user device of claim 1 , wherein the first user device is configured to store a contact list comprising the information related to the second user device.

5. The first user device of claim 1 , wherein the first user device communicates with the second user device through a near-field communication channel.

6. The first user device of claim 1 , wherein the first user device stores information related to the second user device in the memory as a white contact list, when receiving information related to the second user device for a first time.

7. The first user device of claim 6 , wherein the first user device sends configuration information for accessing the network automatically when the received information related to the second user device matches the stored information related to the second user device in the white list.

Assignments (3)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Sep 28, 2018
From: NEC LABORATORIES EUROPE GMBH
To: NEC CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 047001/0570 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Dec 29, 2017
From: NEC EUROPE LTD.
To: NEC LABORATORIES EUROPE GMBH
Reel/Frame 044979/0698 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jan 29, 2015
From: COSTA PÉREZ, XAVIER; VIVES GUASCH, ARNAU
To: NEC EUROPE LTD.
Reel/Frame 034842/0872 →