KR20120030672A

KR20120030672A - Method and apparatus for sharing wireless lan

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Publication number: KR20120030672A
Application number: KR1020100092328A
Authority: KR
Inventors: 정재형
Original assignee: 정재형
Priority date: 2010-09-20
Filing date: 2010-09-20
Publication date: 2012-03-29

Abstract

One embodiment of the present invention relates to a WLAN sharing method and apparatus.
One embodiment of the present invention includes a database for storing the respective AP identification information for the sharing AP is allowed to share; An information receiver configured to receive an access request signal for the sharing AP selected from a list of scanning APs recognized from the terminal; An authentication performing unit for performing authentication on the user of the terminal; And a communication processor configured to perform communication between the sharing AP and the terminal based on a result of performing authentication for the user of the terminal.
According to an embodiment of the present invention, by allowing the sharing of the AP between the subscribers of the WLAN sharing service, Wi-Fi access can be made anywhere through the AP allowed to be shared at no cost or only for a predetermined cost. have.

Description

Wireless LAN Sharing Method and Apparatus {Method And Apparatus for Sharing Wireless LAN}

One embodiment of the present invention relates to a WLAN sharing method and apparatus. In more detail, when a user wants to access the Internet network through an AP that is allowed to share using a terminal between service subscribers, a WLAN sharing method is performed so that communication is performed between the shared AP and the terminal according to whether the user of the terminal is authenticated. And to an apparatus.

The contents described in this section merely provide background information on the embodiments of the present invention and do not constitute a prior art.

Recently, as computers, electronics, and communication technologies have advanced dramatically, various wireless communication services using wireless networks have been provided. Accordingly, a service provided by a mobile communication system using a wireless communication network is developing into a multimedia communication service for transmitting data such as circuit data, packet data, and the like, as well as a voice service.

In general, the wireless Internet has been used for wirelessly accessing the Internet using a PC supporting a wireless LAN in a home or office. In addition, after installing the public AP to expand the wireless Internet network in the Internet service provider, only the subscriber of the service was used to access by using your ID and password. Meanwhile, a server that connects the Internet through a wireless LAN in a conventional private network (LAN) is a Point to Point Protocol over Ethernet (PPPoE) method similar to the Point to Point Protocol (PPP) method.

However, in order to provide a wider accessibility area in this manner, the operator has to install more access equipment, and even using the installed access equipment, there is a problem that only a specific carrier's line is available.

In order to solve the above-mentioned problems, an embodiment of the present invention, when attempting to access the Internet network through the AP that is allowed to share using the terminal between the service subscriber, the shared AP and the terminal according to whether the user of the terminal is authenticated It is a main object to provide a method and apparatus for sharing a wireless LAN so that communication is performed between them.

In order to achieve the above object, an embodiment of the present invention, a database for storing each AP identification information for the sharing AP allowed to share; An information receiver configured to receive an access request signal for the sharing AP selected from a list of scanning APs recognized from the terminal; An authentication performing unit for performing authentication on the user of the terminal; And a communication processor configured to perform communication between the sharing AP and the terminal based on a result of performing authentication for the user of the terminal.

In addition, according to another object of the present invention, the database for storing the respective AP identification information for the sharing AP allowed to share; An information receiver configured to receive an access request signal for the sharing AP selected from a list of scanning APs recognized from the terminal; An authentication performing unit for performing authentication on the user of the terminal; A communication processor configured to perform communication between the sharing AP and the terminal based on an authentication result of the user of the terminal; And a fee sharing unit for allocating a portion of a payment fee charged to the paid account by an access time to an account of a specific user who registered the sharing AP when the terminal is a paid account. to provide.

In addition, according to another object of the present invention, the database for storing the respective AP identification information for the sharing AP allowed to share; When receiving a service registration request signal from the terminal, it is determined whether there is an AP to be shared with the terminal. Receive and store in the database, and transmits the shared firmware corresponding to the type of the shared scheduled AP, the BSSID (Basic Service Set IDentifier) indicating the shared identification information to the shared scheduled AP to the shared scheduled AP A user registration unit for inserting into the network, and allowing the shared AP to indicate shared identification information; And a free access right granting unit for granting one free access right to the corresponding account for each number of APs shared through the user registration unit.

In addition, according to another object of the present invention, the step of receiving a connection request signal for the selected sharing AP from the list of scanning the AP recognized in the vicinity from the terminal; Receiving ID information and password information from the terminal to authenticate the user of the terminal; Performing authentication of a user of the terminal when the received ID information and password information match the registered email address information and password information; It provides a wireless LAN sharing method comprising the step of performing communication between the sharing AP and the terminal.

In addition, according to another object of the present invention, the step of receiving a connection request signal for the selected sharing AP from the list of scanning the AP recognized in the vicinity from the terminal; Performing authentication on a user of the terminal; Communicating between the sharing AP and the terminal based on a result of performing authentication for the user of the terminal; And when the terminal is a paid account, allocating a portion of a payment fee charged to the paid account by an access time to an account of a specific user who has registered the sharing AP as an access time. do.

In addition, according to another object of the present invention, the step of receiving a service registration request signal from the terminal; Checking whether there is a sharing scheduled AP to the terminal, and receiving the AP identification information of the sharing scheduled AP from the terminal and storing the AP identification information in the database based on a result of the confirmation; Transmitting sharing firmware corresponding to a model of the sharing scheduled AP to the sharing scheduled AP; Inserting a Basic Service Set IDentifier (BSSID) indicating shared identification information into the shared AP, and causing the shared AP to indicate shared identification information; And granting one free access right to the corresponding account for each number of shared APs.

As described above, according to an embodiment of the present invention, when accessing the Internet network to an AP allowed to be shared by using a terminal between service subscribers, communication between the shared AP and the terminal according to whether the user of the terminal is authenticated This has the effect of being performed. That is, according to an embodiment of the present invention, by allowing the sharing of the AP between the subscribers to the WLAN sharing service, the Wi-Fi connection can be made anywhere through the AP allowed to be shared free of charge or only at a predetermined cost in the user particle. There is an effect that becomes possible.

1 is a block diagram schematically illustrating a WLAN sharing system according to an embodiment of the present invention;
2 is a block diagram schematically illustrating a WLAN sharing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention;
3 is a flowchart illustrating a user registration and certificate issuing method for wireless LAN sharing according to an embodiment of the present invention;
4 is a flowchart illustrating a WLAN sharing method according to an embodiment of the present invention.
Description of the Related Art
110: user terminal 112: mobile communication terminal
120: AP 130: Internet network
140: wireless LAN sharing device 210: user register
212: payment processing unit 214: user information management unit
216: information receiving unit 218: authentication performing unit
220: communication processing unit 222: free access authorization unit
224: paid account management unit 226: fee distribution
228: advertisement provider 230: certificate issuing unit
232: application provider 234: AP operation check unit
236: database

Hereinafter, some embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail through exemplary drawings. In adding reference numerals to the components of each drawing, it should be noted that the same reference numerals are assigned to the same components as much as possible even though they are shown in different drawings. In the following description of the present invention, a detailed description of known functions and configurations incorporated herein will be omitted when it may make the subject matter of the present invention rather unclear.

In addition, in describing the component of this invention, terms, such as 1st, 2nd, A, B, (a), (b), can be used. These terms are only for distinguishing the components from other components, and the nature, order or order of the components are not limited by the terms. If a component is described as being "connected", "coupled" or "connected" to another component, that component may be directly connected to or connected to that other component, but there may be another configuration between each component. It is to be understood that the elements may be "connected", "coupled" or "connected".

1 is a block diagram schematically illustrating a WLAN sharing system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

The WLAN sharing system according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a user terminal 110, a mobile communication terminal 112, an AP 120, an internet network 130, and a WLAN sharing device 140. Meanwhile, in an embodiment of the present invention, the WLAN sharing system includes only the user terminal 110, the mobile communication terminal 112, the AP 120, the Internet network 130, and the WLAN sharing apparatus 140. However, this is merely illustrative of the technical idea of one embodiment of the present invention, and those skilled in the art to which an embodiment of the present invention belongs will not depart from the essential characteristics of the embodiment of the present invention. In the will be applicable to various modifications and variations to the components included in the WLAN sharing system.

The user terminal 110 refers to a terminal capable of receiving various web page data via the Internet network 130 according to a user's key manipulation, and may be a tablet PC, a laptop, or a personal computer. : Personal Computer), Smart Phone, Personal Digital Assistant (PDA), Mobile Communication Terminal (Mobile Communication Terminal), etc. may be any one of the wireless LAN via the Internet (130) A terminal having a web browser for accessing the sharing device 140, a memory for storing a program, a microprocessor for executing and controlling a program, and the like. That is, although the user terminal 110 is preferably a personal PC, any terminal can be used as long as it is connected to the Internet network 130 and the server-client communication with the WLAN sharing apparatus 140 is possible. It is a broad concept that includes all communication computing devices such as terminals and PDAs.

The user terminal 110 according to an embodiment of the present invention accesses the WLAN sharing apparatus 140 via the Internet network 130 by a user's manipulation or command, and registers to use the WLAN sharing service. And AP sharing. Here, the function of setting up membership and AP sharing for using the WLAN sharing service is not necessarily possible only through the user terminal 110, but also through the mobile communication terminal 112.

The mobile communication terminal 112 is a terminal having a wireless communication module for performing a general voice call and data communication. The mobile communication terminal 112 interworks with a mobile communication network (not shown) by using the provided wireless communication module and uses a conventional voice for wireless communication. Perform call and data communication. Meanwhile, the mobile communication terminal 112 may access the internet network 130 using the AP 120 recognized in the vicinity, and perform voice call and data communication in conjunction with the internet network 130.

The mobile communication terminal 112 may include at least one of a tablet PC, a laptop, a personal computer, a smart phone, and a personal digital assistant (PDA). It may include a device, a memory for storing an application for accessing the Internet network 130 by detecting a WLAN signal from the AP 120 recognized in the vicinity, a microprocessor for executing and operating a program and the like Means a terminal having a.

The mobile communication terminal 112 according to an embodiment of the present invention accesses the WLAN sharing apparatus 140 via the Internet network 130 by a user's manipulation or command, and uses a member to use the WLAN sharing service. You can set up subscription and AP sharing. In addition, when the external AP 120 that is recognized from the outside is recognized while the user carries the mobile communication terminal 112, the Internet through the sharing AP 120 indicating the shared identification information among the recognized AP 120 May be connected to the network 130.

The AP 120 is a device for connecting data communication, and refers to a device capable of reading a receiving side address from the transmitting side information, designating the most appropriate communication path, and transmitting the same to another communication network. That is, the AP 120 extracts the location of the data packet, designates the best communication path for the extracted location, forwards the data packet to the next device along the designated communication path, and shares several circuits in a general network environment. You may. In the present embodiment, the AP 120 may be used as a concept including a router, a repeater, a repeater, and a bridge.

The internet network 130 is a network capable of transmitting and receiving data using an internet protocol using a wired or wireless communication technology, and transmits and receives data transmitted and received between the user terminal 110, the mobile communication terminal 112, and the wireless LAN sharing apparatus 140. It performs the function of relaying. In this case, the Internet network 130 may use a virtual private network (VPN), but is not limited thereto.

The WLAN sharing apparatus 140 according to an embodiment of the present invention is a kind of RADIUS (Remote Access Dial-In User Service) server, and refers to a device sharing Wi-Fi. When the WLAN sharing apparatus 140 receives the service registration request signal from the user terminal 110 or the mobile communication terminal 112, the WLAN sharing apparatus 140 sets information necessary for authentication to the user terminal 110 or the mobile communication terminal 112. After that, the user terminal 110 or the user of the mobile communication terminal 112 is registered as a service subscriber. The WLAN sharing apparatus 140 checks whether there is an AP to be shared with the user terminal 110 or the mobile communication terminal 112, and if there is an AP to be shared based on the result of the check, the user terminal 110 or the mobile terminal. Receives AP identification information of the scheduled AP to be shared from the communication terminal 112 and stores it in the database 236, and registers user information of the user terminal 110 or the mobile communication terminal 112 as an AP shared member account. Here, the AP identification information may include MAC address information about the AP 120 with which the user terminal 110 or the mobile communication terminal 112 communicates, dynamic IP information about the connected Internet network, and At least one of static IP information is included. Here, the MAC address is unique information for identifying the corresponding AP, and a total of 48 bits may be allocated, and 24 bits of the MAC address are input by the manufacturer.

The WLAN sharing device 140 transmits a shared firmware corresponding to a model of the AP 120 to be shared, so that the AP scheduled to share the shared identification information is displayed. do. Preferably, when the WLAN sharing apparatus 140 receives the sharing firmware transmission request signal from the user terminal 110 or the mobile communication terminal 112, the user terminal 110 or the mobile communication terminal 112 communicates. When the shared firmware corresponding to the model of the AP is transmitted to the user terminal 110 or the mobile communication terminal 112, the firmware of the AP communicating by the user of the user terminal 110 or the mobile communication terminal 112 is The firmware may be upgraded to the sharing firmware, but the present invention is not limited thereto, and the WLAN sharing device 140 automatically transmits the sharing firmware corresponding to the model of the AP 120 to be shared with the AP 120 to be shared. Can be implemented. The WLAN sharing device 140 transmits the AP sharing member's terms and conditions information to the user terminal 110 or the mobile terminal 112, and the AP sharing member's terms and conditions information from the user terminal 110 or the mobile terminal 112. When the agreement signal for the received, share sharing firmware to the AP (120). The WLAN sharing apparatus 140 further inserts a Basic Service Set IDentifier (BSSID) indicating shared identification information into the AP to be shared using the firmware for sharing, and the BSSID indicating the shared identification information to the AP to be shared 120. If is selected, the Internet connection request signal is transmitted to the WLAN sharing device 140. Meanwhile, the WLAN sharing apparatus 140 checks whether there is an AP to be shared with the user terminal 110 or the mobile communication terminal 112, and if there is no AP to be shared based on the check result, the user terminal 110. Alternatively, the mobile communication terminal 112 transmits the information about the non-AP shared member condition.

The WLAN sharing apparatus 140 receives email information for authentication from the user terminal 110 or the mobile communication terminal 112. The WLAN sharing apparatus 140 transmits at least one or more information of subscription confirmation information and temporary password information to the received e-mail information. When the WLAN sharing device 140 receives the subscription confirmation response signal for the subscription confirmation information from the user terminal 110 or the mobile communication terminal 112, the WLAN information is recognized as normal email information.

When the WLAN sharing device 140 receives a consent signal for the AP non-shared member's terms and conditions information, the wireless LAN sharing device 140 performs payment processing for the non-shared member fee for use by the user terminal 110 or the mobile communication terminal 112. When the WLAN sharing device 140 receives a connection request from the user terminal 110 or the mobile communication terminal 112 through e-mail information and a temporary password, the password change page to the user terminal 110 or the mobile communication terminal 112 is provided. Send it, and recognize the information entered in the password change page as a new password. When the new password is set, the WLAN sharing apparatus 140 transmits a member registration completion message to the user terminal 110 or the mobile communication terminal 112.

The WLAN sharing apparatus 140 receives an access request signal for the sharing AP 120 selected from a list of scanning APs recognized in the vicinity from the mobile communication terminal 112. The WLAN sharing apparatus 140 performs authentication on a user of the mobile communication terminal 112 that has transmitted a connection request signal to the sharing AP 120. The wireless LAN sharing device 140 may move the user terminal 110 or the mobile terminal when the email address information and the password information received from the user terminal 110 or the mobile communication terminal 112 match the registered email address information and the password information. Authentication of the user of the communication terminal 112 is performed. The WLAN sharing device 140 omits the authentication procedure for the external device on which the certificate is installed and allows communication between the external device and the sharing AP 120 to be performed.

The WLAN sharing apparatus 140 controls communication between the sharing AP 120 and the mobile communication terminal 112 based on the authentication result of the user of the mobile communication terminal 112. The WLAN sharing device 140 grants one free access right to the corresponding account for each number of shared APs. The WLAN sharing apparatus 140 allows access regardless of the type of device accessed through the account to which the free access right is granted, but allows only one device to be connected to the account to which the free access right is granted. The WLAN sharing apparatus 140 grants a free access right to a paid account when a user of the paid account newly shares a separate AP.

The WLAN sharing device 140 allows a device to be simultaneously accessed as many as the number of pay accounts when a pay account separate from an account to which free access is granted under the same user name exists. When the user terminal 110 or the mobile communication terminal 112 is a paid account, the WLAN sharing device 140 allocates a portion of the payment fee charged to the paid account to the account of a specific user who has registered the sharing AP by the access time. do. That is, the WLAN sharing device 140 distributes a part of the payment fee charged to the paying account to the account of the specific user when the paying account of the other person accesses the AP shared by the specific user. In addition, when the advertisement registered by the advertisement provider is transmitted to the user terminal 110 or the mobile communication terminal 112, the WLAN sharing apparatus 140 may share a part of the advertisement cost registered by the advertisement operator of the specific user who registered the AP for sharing. Make sure your account is allotted for ad serving time. That is, the WLAN sharing device 140 is to distribute a portion of the advertising cost registered by the advertising provider with the user sharing the connected AP.

When the advertisement is registered from the associated advertiser terminal, the WLAN sharing apparatus 140 may display the advertisement page regardless of the start page set in the browser equipped with the user terminal 110 or the mobile communication terminal 112, but not in the browser. The set start page maintains preset information. That is, the WLAN sharing device 140 provides a first page redirection function. Regardless of the start page set in the browser mounted on the user terminal 110 or the mobile communication terminal 112, the function randomly resets the start page when the Internet is connected using the wireless LAN sharing service. When pressed, you can go to the start page you set. On the other hand, such a start page reset function is specified in the terms of service when the wireless LAN sharing service subscription is notified to the user. In addition, the terms of use may specify independence of the relationship between the user and the user's Internet service provider. For example, the user may be informed that the user and the Internet service provider are not related to the service use equipment restrictions.

If there is a request for issuing a certificate including authentication information about a user from an external device including at least one of a notebook and a terminal, the WLAN sharing device 140 issues the certificate to the external device. The WLAN sharing apparatus 140 may select an application for automatically selecting an AP having the highest received signal strength from the list scanned by the user terminal 110 or the mobile terminal 112. To send). The WLAN sharing device 140 receives an operation confirmation signal from a sharing AP 120 at a predetermined predetermined time, but if the operation confirmation signal is not received for a predetermined predetermined time, the corresponding AP is searched in the database 236. Limit the number of users and send an alert to the email account corresponding to the AP. The WLAN sharing apparatus 140 allows the restriction to be released when the operation confirmation signal is received again from the AP 120 at a predetermined predetermined time. On the other hand, the WLAN sharing device 140 stores the respective AP identification information for the sharing AP allowed to share. When the access information request signal for the sharing AP 120 is received from the user terminal 110 or the mobile communication terminal 112 that registered the sharing AP 120, the WLAN sharing apparatus 140 may access the request information. The user terminal 110 or mobile communication that has registered the AP 120 for sharing the access information response signal including at least one of log file, access frequency information, access state information, and end point settlement information corresponding to Transmit to terminal 112.

Here, the WLAN sharing device 140 connected to the AP 120 between the service subscribers and the Internet network 130 uses an EAP (Extensible Authentication Protocol) authentication method of the 802.1x protocol, but is not necessarily limited thereto. For example, the WLAN sharing device 140 may include 'EAP-MD5', 'EAP-LEAP (Lightweight Extensible Authentication Protocol)', 'EAP-TLS (Transport Layer Security)', and 'EAP-TTLS (Tunneled Transport Layer Security)'. ), And 'EAP-PEAP (Protected Extensible Authentication Protocol)'. Meanwhile, a security method of the AP 120 may use a Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA) Enterprise method, and an encryption method may use TKIP (Temporal Key Integrity Protocol) and AES (Advanced Encryption Standard). It is not limited.

The WLAN sharing apparatus 140 has the same configuration as a conventional web server or network server in hardware. However, the software includes a program module implemented through any language such as C, C ++, Java, Visual Basic, and Visual C, as described in detail below with reference to FIG. 2. The WLAN sharing device 140 may be implemented in the form of a web server or a network server, which is generally connected to an unspecified number of clients and / or other servers through an open computer network such as the Internet, It refers to a computer system that receives a request to perform a web server's work and derives and provides a work result thereof, and a computer software (web server program) installed therefor. However, in addition to the above-described web server program, it should be understood as a broad concept including a series of application programs (Application Program) operating on a web server and in some cases various databases built therein.

The WLAN sharing device 140 is a web server program that is variously provided according to operating systems such as DOS, Windows, Linux, UNIX, Macintosh, etc. in general server hardware. It may be implemented by using, and representative examples may be a website (Website) used in the Windows environment, Internet Information Server (IIS) and CERN, NCSA, APPACH used in the Unix environment.

In addition, the WLAN sharing apparatus 140 may interwork with an authentication system and a payment system for WLAN sharing. In addition, the WLAN sharing device 140 classifies membership information and information on AP identification information for WLAN sharing, stores and manages the information in a database. The database 236 is a WLAN sharing device ( 140 may be implemented inside or outside. Such a database refers to a general data structure implemented in a storage system (hard disk or memory) of a computer system using a database management program (DBMS), and can freely search (extract) data, delete data, edit data, and add data. It is a data storage type that can be used, such as relational database management systems (RDBMS) such as Oracle, Infomix, Sybase, DB2, Gemston, Orion, An object-oriented database management system (OODBMS) such as O2, etc., and an XML Native Database such as Excelon, Tamino, Sekaiju, etc. are used to meet the purpose of an embodiment of the present invention. It can be implemented and has the appropriate fields or elements to achieve its function.

2 is a block diagram schematically illustrating a WLAN sharing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Wireless LAN sharing apparatus 140 according to an embodiment of the present invention is a user registration unit 210, payment processing unit 212, user information management unit 214, information receiving unit 216, authentication performing unit 218, communication processing unit 220, free access authorization unit 222, paid account management unit 224, fee distribution unit 226, advertisement provider 228, certificate issuer 230, application provider 232, AP operation The verification unit 234 and the database 236 are included. Meanwhile, in an embodiment of the present invention, the WLAN sharing apparatus 140 may include a user register 210, a payment processor 212, a user information manager 214, an information receiver 216, an authentication performer 218, and communication. Processing unit 220, free access authorization unit 222, paid account management unit 224, fee distribution unit 226, advertising provider 228, certificate issuer 230, application provider 232, AP Although it is described as including only the operation check unit 234 and the database 236, which is merely illustrative of the technical idea of an embodiment of the present invention, it is common knowledge in the technical field to which an embodiment of the present invention belongs Those having the above will be applicable to various modifications and modifications to the components included in the WLAN sharing apparatus 140 without departing from the essential characteristics of the embodiment of the present invention.

When the user registration unit 210 receives the service registration request signal from the user terminal 110 or the mobile communication terminal 112, sets the information necessary for authentication to the user terminal 110 or the mobile communication terminal 112 and then the user The user of the terminal 110 or the mobile communication terminal 112 is registered as a service subscriber. The user registration unit 210 checks whether there is an AP to be shared with the user terminal 110 or the mobile terminal 112, and if there is an AP to be shared based on the result of the check, the user terminal 110 or the mobile terminal. Receiving the AP identification information for the AP scheduled to share from the 112 to be stored in the database 236, and registers the user information of the user terminal 110 or the mobile communication terminal 112 to the AP shared member account. Here, the AP identification information may include at least one of MAC address information about the AP 120 with which the user terminal 110 or the mobile communication terminal 112 communicates, floating IP information about the connected Internet network, and fixed IP information. It includes.

The user registration unit 210 transmits a sharing firmware corresponding to a model of the sharing scheduled AP 120 to the sharing scheduled AP 120, thereby causing the sharing scheduled AP 120 to display shared identification information. The user register 210 transmits the AP shared member's terms and conditions information to the user terminal 110 or the mobile communication terminal 112, and the AP shared member's terms and conditions information from the user terminal 110 or the mobile terminal 112. When the consent signal is received, the sharing firmware is transmitted to the sharing scheduled AP 120. The user registration unit 210 additionally inserts a Basic Service Set IDentifier (BSSID) indicating shared identification information into the shared AP using shared firmware, and selects the BSSID representing the shared identification information to the shared AP 120. If so, the Internet connection request signal is transmitted to the information receiver 216. On the other hand, the user registration unit 210 checks whether there is an AP to be shared with the user terminal 110 or the mobile communication terminal 112, and if there is no AP to be shared based on the result of the check, the user terminal 110 or the mobile terminal. The communication information for the non-shared AP member is transmitted to the communication terminal 112.

The user register 210 receives e-mail information for authentication from the user terminal 110 or the mobile communication terminal 112. The user registration unit 210 transmits at least one or more information of the subscription confirmation information and the temporary password information to the received e-mail information. When the user registration unit 210 receives the subscription confirmation response signal for the subscription confirmation information from the user terminal 110 or the mobile communication terminal 112, the user information recognizes the email information as normal email information.

When the agreement signal for the AP non-shared member's terms and conditions information is received, the payment processor 212 performs payment processing for the non-shared member fee to the user terminal 110 or the mobile communication terminal 112. When there is a request for access through the e-mail information and the temporary password from the user terminal 110 or the mobile terminal 112, the user information manager 214 sends a password change page to the user terminal 110 or the mobile terminal 112. The information entered on the password change page is recognized as a new password. When a new password is set, the user information manager 214 transmits a member registration completion message to the user terminal 110 or the mobile communication terminal 112.

The information receiver 216 receives an access request signal for the sharing AP 120 selected from the list of scanning APs recognized from the mobile communication terminal 112. The authentication performing unit 218 authenticates the user of the mobile communication terminal 112 that has transmitted the access request signal to the sharing AP 120. The authentication performing unit 218 may use the user terminal 110 or the mobile communication when the email address information and the password information received from the user terminal 110 or the mobile communication terminal 112 match the registered email address information and the password information. Authentication of the user of the terminal 112 is performed. The authentication performing unit 218 omits the authentication procedure for the external device on which the certificate is installed, and the communication processing unit 220 allows communication between the external device and the sharing AP 120 to be performed. The communication processor 220 controls communication between the sharing AP 120 and the mobile communication terminal 112 based on the authentication result of the user of the mobile communication terminal 112. When the access information request signal for the sharing AP 120 is received from the user terminal 110 or the mobile communication terminal 112 that has registered the sharing AP 120, the communication processor 220 may respond to the access information request signal. A user terminal 110 or a mobile communication terminal that registers an AP 120 for sharing a connection information response signal including at least one of log file, access frequency information, access state information, and end point settlement information. 112).

The free access authority granting unit 222 grants one free access right to the corresponding account for each number of APs shared through the user registration unit 210. The free access authority granting unit 222 allows access regardless of the type of device accessed through the account to which the free access right is granted, but allows only one device to be connected to the account to which the free access right is granted. The free access authority granter 222 grants a free access right to the paid account when a user of the paid account newly shares a separate AP. The paid account manager 224 allows a device to be accessed at the same time as the number of paid accounts when there is a separate paid account and an account to which free access is granted under the same user name.

If the user terminal 110 or the mobile communication terminal 112 is a paid account, the fee distribution unit 226 allocates a portion of the payment fee charged to the paid account to the account of the specific user who registered the sharing AP for the access time. . The fee distribution unit 226 is configured to advertise a portion of the advertising costs registered by the advertising service provider to the account of a specific user who registered the sharing AP when the advertisement registered by the advertising service provider is transmitted to the user terminal 110 or the mobile communication terminal 112. Allow time for distribution. When an advertisement is registered from an associated advertiser terminal, the advertisement providing unit 228 may display an advertisement page regardless of the start page set in the browser equipped with the user terminal 110 or the mobile communication terminal 112, but is set in the browser. The start page maintains preset information.

The certificate issuer 230 issues a certificate to an external device when there is a request for issuing a certificate including authentication information about a user from an external device including at least one of a notebook and a terminal. The application providing unit 232 may select an application for automatically selecting an AP having the highest received signal strength from the list scanned by the user terminal 110 or the mobile terminal 112. To send.

When the AP operation confirmation unit 234 receives the operation confirmation signal from the sharing AP 120 at a predetermined predetermined time, and the operation confirmation signal is not received for a predetermined predetermined time, the corresponding AP is searched in the database 236. Limit the number of users and send an alert to the email account corresponding to the AP. When the operation confirmation signal is received again from the corresponding AP 120 every predetermined time, the AP operation confirmation unit 234 releases the restriction. The database 236 stores respective AP identification information for the sharing AP that is allowed to share.

3 is a flowchart illustrating a user registration and certificate issuing method for wireless LAN sharing according to an embodiment of the present invention.

The user terminal 110 or the mobile communication terminal 112 connects to a specific URL (Uniform Resource Locator) for a wireless LAN sharing service by a user's manipulation or command (S310). That is, the user terminal 110 or the mobile communication terminal 112 is connected to the wireless LAN sharing device 140 corresponding to the URL input by the user's operation or command. The user terminal 110 or the mobile communication terminal 112 outputs the data provided by the wireless LAN sharing apparatus 140 on the screen, and corresponds to the subscription among the data output on the screen by a user's operation or command. When the area is selected, the service registration request signal is transmitted to the WLAN sharing apparatus 140 (S312). When the WLAN sharing apparatus 140 receives the service registration request signal from the user terminal 110 or the mobile communication terminal 112, whether the AP to be shared with the user terminal 110 or the mobile communication terminal 112 exists. Check (S314).

As a result of checking in step S314, if there is a shared AP, the wireless LAN sharing device 140 receives AP identification information about the shared AP from the user terminal 110 or the mobile communication terminal 112 and transmits it to the database 236. After the AP information is sent to the user terminal 110 or the mobile terminal 112, the consent signal for the terms of the shared member information from the user terminal 110 or the mobile terminal 112 is received. Check whether it is received (S316). Here, the AP identification information may include at least one of MAC address information about the AP 120 with which the user terminal 110 or the mobile communication terminal 112 communicates, floating IP information about the connected Internet network, and fixed IP information. It includes.

As a result of checking in step S316, when a consent signal for the terms of use for the shared member is received, the WLAN sharing apparatus 140 registers the user information of the user terminal 110 or the mobile communication terminal 112 with the AP shared member account. In addition, the firmware for sharing is transmitted to the sharing scheduled AP 120 (S318). That is, the WLAN sharing apparatus 140 transmits the sharing firmware corresponding to the type of the sharing scheduled AP 120 to the sharing scheduled AP 120, thereby causing the sharing scheduled AP 120 to display the shared identification information. . That is, the sharing schedule AP 120 upgrades the previously stored firmware with the received sharing firmware. In this case, the WLAN sharing apparatus 140 further inserts the BSSID indicating the shared identification information into the shared AP using the firmware for sharing, and when the BSSID indicating the shared identification information is selected in the shared AP 120. The information receiver 216 transmits an internet connection request signal.

The WLAN sharing apparatus 140 grants one free access right to the corresponding account for each number of shared APs (S320). The WLAN sharing apparatus 140 allows access regardless of the type of device accessed through the account to which the free access right is granted, but allows only one device to be connected to the account to which the free access right is granted. The WLAN sharing apparatus 140 grants a free access right to a paid account when a user of the paid account newly shares a separate AP. The WLAN sharing device 140 allows a device to be simultaneously accessed as many as the number of pay accounts when a pay account separate from an account to which free access is granted under the same user name exists.

On the other hand, when the result of the check in step S314, when there is no shared AP, the wireless LAN sharing device 140 transmits the AP non-shared member terms and conditions information to the user terminal 110 or the mobile communication terminal 112, the user terminal 110 ) Or whether the consent signal for the non-shared member's terms and conditions information is received from the mobile communication terminal 112 (S322). As a result of checking in step S322, when the consent signal for the non-shared member terms and conditions information is received, the wireless LAN sharing device 140, when the agreement signal for the AP non-shared membership terms information is received, the user terminal 110 or move The payment processing for the non-shared member fee is performed to the communication terminal 112 (S324). For example, the fee for using a non-shared member is divided into periods such as 'monthly amount', '3 months', '4 months', and '1 year', and it is preferable that a cost corresponding to each period is set, but is not necessarily limited thereto. no.

The WLAN sharing apparatus 140 receives email information for authentication from the user terminal 110 or the mobile communication terminal 112 (S326). The WLAN sharing apparatus 140 transmits at least one or more information among subscription confirmation information and temporary password information as received e-mail information (S328). Here, when the wireless LAN sharing device 140 receives the subscription confirmation response signal for the subscription confirmation information from the user terminal 110 or the mobile communication terminal 112, the wireless LAN sharing device 140 recognizes the email information as normal email information. The user terminal 110 or the mobile communication terminal 112 accesses the wireless LAN sharing device 140 through the e-mail information and the temporary password (S330). When the wireless LAN sharing device 140 accesses the e-mail information and the temporary password from the user terminal 110 or the mobile communication terminal 112, and transmits a password change page to the user terminal 110 or the mobile communication terminal 112. Recognizing the information entered in the password change page as a new password, and if a new password is set, and transmits a member registration complete message to the user terminal 110 or the mobile communication terminal (112) (S332).

If there is a request for issuing a certificate including authentication information about a user from an external device including at least one of a notebook and a terminal, the WLAN sharing device 140 issues the certificate to the external device (S334). The external device receives and installs a certificate and may use the installed certificate when accessing the WLAN sharing device 140. That is, the WLAN sharing apparatus 140 omits the authentication procedure for the external device on which the certificate is installed and allows communication between the external device and the sharing AP 120 to be performed. If there is a request for issuing a certificate including authentication information about the user from the separate Wi-Fi device, the WLAN sharing device 140 issues the certificate to the Wi-Fi device (S336). The Wi-Fi device receives and installs a certificate and may use the installed certificate when connecting to the WLAN sharing device 140. That is, the WLAN sharing device 140 omits the authentication procedure for the external device on which the certificate is installed and allows communication between the Wi-Fi device and the sharing AP 120 to be performed.

In FIG. 3, steps S310 to S336 are described as being sequentially executed. However, this is merely illustrative of the technical idea of an embodiment of the present invention, and the general knowledge in the technical field to which an embodiment of the present invention belongs. Those having a variety of modifications and variations may be applicable by changing the order described in FIG. 3 or executing one or more steps of steps S310 to S336 in parallel without departing from the essential characteristics of an embodiment of the present invention. 3 is not limited to the time series order.

As described above, the user registration and certificate issuance method for sharing the WLAN according to an embodiment of the present invention described in FIG. 3 may be implemented in a program and recorded in a computer-readable recording medium. A computer-readable recording medium for recording a program for implementing a user registration and certificate issuance method for wireless LAN sharing according to an embodiment of the present invention is recorded in all kinds of data that can be read by a computer system Device. Examples of such computer-readable recording media include ROM, RAM, CD-ROM, magnetic tape, floppy disk, optical data storage, etc., and also implemented in the form of a carrier wave (e.g., transmission over the Internet) . The computer readable recording medium may also be distributed over a networked computer system so that computer readable code is stored and executed in a distributed manner. In addition, functional programs, code, and code segments for implementing an embodiment of the present invention may be easily inferred by programmers skilled in the art to which an embodiment of the present invention belongs.

4 is a flowchart illustrating a WLAN sharing method according to an embodiment of the present invention.

The WLAN sharing apparatus 140 receives an access request signal for the sharing AP 120 selected from a list of scanning APs recognized from the mobile communication terminal 112 (S410). The WLAN sharing apparatus 140 checks whether authentication of the user of the mobile communication terminal 112 that has transmitted the access request signal to the sharing AP 120 is performed (S420). Here, the wireless LAN sharing device 140, the user terminal 110 when the email address information and password information received from the user terminal 110 or the mobile communication terminal 112 matches the registered email address information and password information. Alternatively, authentication of the user of the mobile communication terminal 112 is performed.

As a result of checking in step S420, when the authentication of the user of the mobile communication terminal 112 is completed, it is controlled to perform communication between the sharing AP 120 and the mobile communication terminal 112 (S430). When the user terminal 110 or the mobile communication terminal 112 is a paid account, the WLAN sharing device 140 allocates a portion of the payment fee charged to the paid account to the account of a specific user who has registered the sharing AP by the access time. (S440). That is, the WLAN sharing device 140 distributes a part of the payment fee charged to the paying account to the account of the specific user when the paying account of the other person accesses the AP shared by the specific user. In addition, when the advertisement registered by the advertisement provider is transmitted to the user terminal 110 or the mobile communication terminal 112, the WLAN sharing apparatus 140 may share a part of the advertisement cost registered by the advertisement operator of the specific user who registered the AP for sharing. Make sure your account is allotted for ad serving time. That is, the WLAN sharing device 140 is to distribute a portion of the advertising cost registered by the advertising provider with the user sharing the connected AP. Meanwhile, when the advertisement is registered from the associated advertiser terminal, the WLAN sharing apparatus 140 may display the advertisement page regardless of the start page set in the browser equipped with the user terminal 110 or the mobile communication terminal 112. The start page set in the browser maintains preset information.

The WLAN sharing apparatus 140 checks whether the sharing AP 120 is operating at a predetermined predetermined time (S450). That is, the WLAN sharing apparatus 140 receives an operation confirmation signal at a predetermined predetermined time from the sharing AP 120. As a result of checking in step S450, when the sharing AP 120 is not operating, the WLAN sharing device 140 restricts the AP from being searched in the database 236 and warns an e-mail account corresponding to the AP. Send the mail (S460). That is, the WLAN sharing apparatus 140 determines that the sharing AP 120 is not operating when the operation confirmation signal is not received from the sharing AP 120 for a predetermined time. Thereafter, the WLAN sharing apparatus 140 may allow the restriction to be released when the operation confirmation signal is received again from the corresponding AP 120 every predetermined time. Meanwhile, the WLAN sharing apparatus 140 may select an application for automatically selecting an AP having the highest received signal strength from the list scanned by the user terminal 110 or the mobile terminal 112. Send to 112.

In FIG. 4, steps S410 to S460 are described as being sequentially executed. However, this is merely illustrative of the technical idea of an embodiment of the present invention, and the general knowledge in the technical field to which an embodiment of the present invention belongs. Those having a variety of modifications and variations may be applicable by changing the order described in FIG. 4 or executing one or more steps of steps S410 to S460 in parallel without departing from the essential characteristics of an embodiment of the present invention. 4 is not limited to the time series order.

As described above, the WLAN sharing method according to an embodiment of the present invention described in FIG. 4 may be implemented in a program and recorded in a computer-readable recording medium. A computer-readable recording medium having recorded thereon a program for implementing a WLAN sharing method according to an embodiment of the present invention includes all kinds of recording devices storing data that can be read by a computer system. Examples of such computer-readable recording media include ROM, RAM, CD-ROM, magnetic tape, floppy disk, optical data storage, etc., and also implemented in the form of a carrier wave (e.g., transmission over the Internet) . The computer readable recording medium may also be distributed over a networked computer system so that computer readable code is stored and executed in a distributed manner. In addition, functional programs, code, and code segments for implementing an embodiment of the present invention may be easily inferred by programmers skilled in the art to which an embodiment of the present invention belongs.

In the above description, all elements constituting the embodiments of the present invention are described as being combined or operating in combination, but the present invention is not necessarily limited to the embodiments. In other words, within the scope of the present invention, all of the components may be selectively operated in combination with one or more. In addition, although all of the components may be implemented in one independent hardware, each or all of the components may be selectively combined to perform some or all functions combined in one or a plurality of hardware. It may be implemented as a computer program having a. Codes and code segments constituting the computer program may be easily inferred by those skilled in the art. Such a computer program may be stored in a computer readable storage medium and read and executed by a computer, thereby implementing embodiments of the present invention. The storage medium of the computer program may include a magnetic recording medium, an optical recording medium, a carrier wave medium, and the like.

In addition, the terms "comprise", "comprise" or "having" described above mean that the corresponding component may be included, unless otherwise stated, and thus excludes other components. It should be construed that it may further include other components instead. All terms, including technical and scientific terms, have the same meanings as commonly understood by one of ordinary skill in the art unless otherwise defined. Terms commonly used, such as terms defined in a dictionary, should be interpreted to coincide with the contextual meaning of the related art, and shall not be construed in an ideal or excessively formal sense unless explicitly defined in the present invention.

The above description is merely illustrative of the technical idea of the present invention, and those skilled in the art to which the present invention pertains may make various modifications and changes without departing from the essential characteristics of the present invention. Therefore, the embodiments disclosed in the present invention are not intended to limit the technical idea of the present invention but to describe the present invention, and the scope of the technical idea of the present invention is not limited by these embodiments. The scope of protection of the present invention should be construed according to the following claims, and all technical ideas falling within the scope of the same shall be construed as falling within the scope of the present invention.

Claims

A database that stores respective AP identification information for the sharing AP allowed to share;
An information receiver configured to receive an access request signal for the sharing AP selected from a list of scanning APs recognized from the terminal;
An authentication performing unit for performing authentication on the user of the terminal; And
A communication processor for performing communication between the sharing AP and the terminal based on a result of performing authentication for the user of the terminal;
Wireless LAN sharing device comprising a.

The method of claim 1,
When receiving a service registration request signal from the terminal, the user registration unit for registering the user of the terminal as a service subscriber after setting the information necessary for authentication to the terminal
Wireless LAN sharing device further comprises.

The method of claim 2,
The user registration unit,
Check whether there is a sharing scheduled AP to the terminal; and if there is a sharing scheduled AP based on a result of the confirmation, receive the AP identification information of the sharing scheduled AP from the terminal and store the AP identification information in the database; Wireless LAN sharing device, characterized in that to register the user information of the AP shared member account.

The method of claim 3, wherein
The AP identification information,
Wireless LAN sharing apparatus comprising at least one of the MAC address information for the AP with which the terminal is communicating, the floating IP (Internet Protocol) information and fixed IP information for the connected Internet network .

The method of claim 3, wherein
The user registration unit,
Wireless sharing device, characterized in that for transmitting the shared firmware (Firmware) corresponding to the type of the shared scheduled AP to the shared scheduled AP, the shared scheduled AP to display the shared identification information.

The method of claim 5, wherein
The user registration unit,
And transmits the sharing firmware to the terminal when the agreement signal for the sharing information for the AP sharing member is received from the terminal, and transmits the sharing firmware to the sharing AP. Shared device.

The method of claim 5, wherein
The user registration unit,
The BSSID (Basic Service Set IDentifier) indicating the shared identification information is additionally inserted into the sharing scheduled AP using the sharing firmware, and when the BSSID indicating the sharing identification information is selected in the sharing scheduled AP, Wireless LAN sharing device characterized in that the Internet connection request signal is transmitted to the information receiver.

The method of claim 3, wherein
The user registration unit,
The wireless LAN sharing device, characterized in that for transmitting the AP non-shared member terms and conditions information to the terminal when there is no shared AP.

The method of claim 8
If the agreement signal for the AP non-shared member terms and conditions information is received, the payment processing unit for performing a payment processing for the non-shared member fee for use to the terminal
WLAN sharing device further comprising.

The method of claim 2,
The user registration unit,
Wireless LAN sharing device characterized in that for receiving email information for authentication from the terminal.

The method of claim 10,
The user registration unit,
And at least one or more pieces of information including subscription confirmation information and temporary password information are transmitted to the received e-mail information.

The method of claim 11,
The user registration unit,
And receiving the subscription confirmation response signal for the subscription confirmation information from the terminal, recognizing the email information as normal email information.

The method of claim 10,
When there is a request for access through the e-mail information and the temporary password from the terminal, the user information management unit for transmitting a password change page to the terminal, and recognizes the information entered in the password change page as a new password
Wireless LAN sharing device further comprises.

The method of claim 13,
The user information management unit,
And transmitting a member registration completion message to the terminal when the new password is set.

The method of claim 3, wherein
Free access authority granting unit that grants one free access right to the corresponding account for each number of APs shared through the user register
Wireless LAN sharing device further comprises.

The method of claim 15,
The free access authorization unit,
A wireless LAN sharing device, which allows access regardless of the type of a device connected through the account to which the free access right is granted, but allows only one device to be connected to the account to which the free access right is granted.

The method of claim 15,
If there is a pay account separate from the account to which the free access right is granted under the same user name, the pay account management unit allows the number of devices of the pay account to be simultaneously accessed.
Wireless LAN sharing device further comprises.

The method of claim 17,
The free access authorization unit,
When the user of the pay account newly shares a separate AP, the wireless LAN sharing device, characterized in that for granting the free access rights to the pay account.

The method of claim 1,
In the case where the terminal is a paid account, a fee distribution portion for allocating a part of the payment fee charged to the paid account to the account of a specific user who registered the sharing AP for the access time.
Wireless LAN sharing device further comprises.

The method of claim 19,
The fee for use distribution part,
When the advertisement registered by the advertising provider is transmitted to the terminal, a portion of the advertising costs registered by the advertising provider is distributed to the account of the specific user who registered the sharing AP for the advertisement providing time, characterized in that the WLAN.

The method of claim 1,
When an advertisement is registered from an associated advertiser terminal, the advertisement page is displayed regardless of the start page set in the browser mounted on the terminal, but the start page set in the browser maintains predetermined information.
Wireless LAN sharing device further comprises.

The method of claim 1,
The authentication performing unit,
And if the email address information and the password information received from the terminal coincide with the registered email address information and the password information, the wireless LAN sharing apparatus for authenticating the user of the terminal.

The method of claim 1,
Certificate issuing unit for issuing the certificate to the external device when there is a request for issuing a certificate including authentication information for the user from an external device including at least one of a notebook and a terminal.
Wireless LAN sharing device further comprises.

The method of claim 23,
The authentication performing unit,
And omit an authentication procedure for the external device on which the certificate is installed, and wherein the communication processing unit performs communication between the external device and the sharing AP.

The method of claim 1,
Application providing unit for transmitting to the terminal an application for automatically selecting the AP having the highest received signal strength from the list scanned by the terminal
Wireless LAN sharing device further comprises.

The method of claim 1,
When the operation confirmation signal is received from the sharing AP every predetermined time, but the operation confirmation signal is not received for a predetermined time, the AP is restricted from being searched in the database, and the email corresponding to the AP AP operation confirmation unit that sends an alert mail to the account
Wireless LAN sharing device further comprises.

The method of claim 26,
The AP operation check unit,
The wireless LAN sharing device, characterized in that the restriction is released when the operation confirmation signal is received again from the AP every predetermined time.

The method of claim 1,
The communication processing unit,
When the access information request signal for the sharing AP is received from the terminal that registered the sharing AP, among the log file, access frequency information, access state information, and end-of-month point settlement information corresponding to the access information request signal, And a connection information response signal including at least one information to a terminal that has registered the sharing AP.

The method of claim 1,
The terminal comprises:
At least one of a tablet PC, a laptop, a personal computer, a smart phone, a personal digital assistant (PDA), and a mobile communication terminal WLAN sharing device comprising at least one device.

A database that stores respective AP identification information for the sharing AP allowed to share;
An information receiver configured to receive an access request signal for the sharing AP selected from a list of scanning APs recognized from the terminal;
An authentication performing unit for performing authentication on the user of the terminal;
A communication processor configured to perform communication between the sharing AP and the terminal based on an authentication result of the user of the terminal; And
In the case where the terminal is a paid account, a fee distribution portion for allocating a part of the payment fee charged to the paid account to the account of a specific user who registered the sharing AP for the access time.
Wireless LAN sharing device comprising a.

A database that stores respective AP identification information for the sharing AP allowed to share;
When receiving a service registration request signal from the terminal, it is determined whether there is an AP to be shared with the terminal. Receive and store in the database, and transmits the shared firmware corresponding to the type of the shared scheduled AP, the BSSID (Basic Service Set IDentifier) indicating the shared identification information to the shared scheduled AP to the shared scheduled AP A user registration unit for inserting into the network, and allowing the shared AP to indicate shared identification information; And
Free access authority granting unit that grants one free access right to the corresponding account for each number of APs shared through the user register
Wireless LAN sharing device comprising a.

Receiving an access request signal for a selected sharing AP from a list of scanning APs recognized from the terminal;
Receiving ID information and password information from the terminal to authenticate the user of the terminal;
Performing authentication of the user of the terminal when the received ID information and password information match the registered ID information and password information;
Allowing communication between the sharing AP and the terminal to be performed
WLAN sharing method comprising a.

Receiving an access request signal for a selected sharing AP from a list of scanning APs recognized from the terminal;
Performing authentication on a user of the terminal;
Communicating between the sharing AP and the terminal based on a result of performing authentication for the user of the terminal; And
If the terminal is a paid account, allocating a portion of the payment fee charged to the paid account by the access time to the account of the specific user who registered the sharing AP by the access time
WLAN sharing method comprising a.

Receiving a service registration request signal from a terminal;
Checking whether there is a sharing scheduled AP to the terminal, and receiving the AP identification information of the sharing scheduled AP from the terminal and storing the AP identification information in the database based on a result of the confirmation;
Transmitting sharing firmware corresponding to a model of the sharing scheduled AP to the sharing scheduled AP;
Inserting a Basic Service Set IDentifier (BSSID) indicating shared identification information into the shared AP, and causing the shared AP to indicate shared identification information; And
Granting one free access to the account for each number of shared APs
WLAN sharing method comprising a.