Method and apparatus for accessing WI-FI Network
A method and an apparatus for accessing a WI-FI network supporting a terminal in being coupled to two or more WI-FI networks at the same time, and therefore, WI-FI network is applied in a safer and more fluent manner. The method is applied to a terminal, the terminal includes N WI-FI access circuits and at least one processor, the at least one processor is configured to run a software program to form M containers, one container may be equivalent to one operating system, switch operation may be performed between different containers, each container corresponds to one WI-FI network access service, the M containers are capable of operating at the same time, tasks and data of different WI-FI network access services during operation of different containers are mutually isolated, and M and N are natural numbers greater than or equal to two.
1. An apparatus for accessing a wireless fidelity (WI-FI) network, comprising:
N WI-FI access circuits; and
at least one processor configured to run a software program to form a container supporting both a first WI-FI network access service and a second WI-FI network access service; and
a WI-FI processor configured to:
access a first WI-FI network using a first WI-FI access circuit of the N WI-FI access circuits when an access request for accessing the first WI-FI network is received; and
access a second WI-FI network using a second WI-FI access circuit of the N WI-FI access circuits on a condition of using the first WI-FI access circuit to access the first WI-FI network in response to an access request for accessing the second WI-FI network being received,
wherein the at least one processor is further configured to drive a display interface corresponding to the container to synchronously display a first WI-FI network access identifier and a second WI-FI network access identifier, wherein the first WI-FI network access identifier represents that the first WI-FI network is accessed, wherein the second WI-FI network access identifier represents that the second WI-FI network is accessed, and wherein N is a natural number greater than or equal to 2.
2. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the at least one processor is further configured to drive the display to synchronously display connection signal strength of the first WI-FI network and connection signal strength of the second WI-FI network on the display interface.
3. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the WI-FI processor is further configured to select, according to a detected WI-FI network connection manner from a user, at least one of the first WI-FI network or the second WI-FI network to carry a data service after the WI-FI processor accesses the first WI-FI network and the second WI-FI network.
4. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the WI-FI processor is further configured to perform channel resource scheduling.
5. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the WI-FI processor is further configured to perform Media Access Control.
6. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the WI-FI processor is further configured to perform encryption and decryption that are related to accessing the first WI-FI network and the second WI-FI network.
7. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the container is further configured to implement a user interface function of a corresponding WI-FI network access service.
8. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the container is further configured to implement maintenance of an access point (AP) start state.
9. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the container is further configured to implement maintenance of a station peer to peer network start state.
10. The apparatus of claim 1 , wherein the first WI-FI network and second WI-FI network operate on different radio frequency bands.
11. A method for accessing a wireless fidelity (WI-FI) network, comprising:
running a software program to form a container, wherein the container supports both a first WI-FI network access service and a second WI-FI network access service;
accessing a first WI-FI network using a first WI-FI access circuit of N WI-FI access circuits when an access request for accessing the first WI-FI network is received, wherein N is a natural number greater than or equal to 2;
accessing a second WI-FI network using a second WI-FI access circuit of the N WI-FI access circuits on a condition of using the first WI-FI access circuit to access the first WI-FI network in response to an access request for accessing a second WI-FI network being received; and
driving a display interface corresponding to the container to synchronously display a first WI-FI network access identifier and a second WI-FI network access identifier, wherein the first WI-FI network access identifier represents that the first WI-FI network is accessed, and wherein the second WI-FI network access identifier represents that the second WI-FI network is accessed.
12. The method of claim 11 , further comprising driving the display to synchronously display connection signal strength of the first WI-FI network and connection signal strength of the second WI-FI network on the display interface.
13. The method of claim 11 , further comprising selecting, according to a detected WI-FI network connection manner from a user, at least one of the first WI-FI network or the second WI-FI network to carry a data service after accessing the first WI-FI network and the second WI-FI network.
14. The method of claim 11 , further comprising performing at least one of channel resource scheduling, Media Access Control, encryption, or decryption that are related to accessing the first WI-FI network and the second WI-FI network.
15. The method of claim 11 , wherein the container is configured to implement at least one of a user interface function of a corresponding WI-FI network access service, maintenance of an access point (AP) start state, or maintenance of a station peer to peer network start state.
16. The method of claim 11 , wherein the first WI-FI network and second WI-FI network operate on different radio frequency bands.