WO2016112706A1

WO2016112706A1 - Hotspot accessing method and device, and terminal

Info

Publication number: WO2016112706A1
Application number: PCT/CN2015/089652
Authority: WO
Inventors: 张庆立
Original assignee: 中兴通讯股份有限公司
Priority date: 2015-01-16
Filing date: 2015-09-15
Publication date: 2016-07-21
Also published as: CN105848251A; WO2016112591A1; CN105848251B

Abstract

Disclosed are a hotspot accessing method and device, and a terminal. The method comprises: determining a target hotspot scanned by a terminal; if the terminal accessed the target hotspot, acquiring parameter information of the target hotspot; and if it is determined, according to the parameter information, that a user needs to control the terminal to access the target hotspot, not automatically accessing the target hotspot.

Description

Hotspot access method, device and terminal

Technical field

This application relates to, but is not limited to, the field of wireless local area networks.

Background technique

With the development of mobile communication, the functions of mobile phones are more and more, the built-in Wi-Fi function has become the standard of mobile terminals, and Wi-Fi has become one of the functions and modules most used by users in mobile terminals. Major operators are also deploying free Wi-Fi hotspots in more and more places to provide users with Internet access.

The free Wi-Fi hotspot also brings certain problems: during the user's mobile process, the mobile phone may automatically connect to the free Wi-Fi hotspots that have been used before, and these free Wi-Fi hotspots are generally Further certification is required to connect to the Internet. In this way, the user terminal is automatically switched to the Wi-Fi hotspot by the previously accessed mobile network, and the Internet cannot be connected immediately after the handover is completed, and the user needs to authenticate to the Wi-Fi hotspot provider, thereby interrupting the user service and giving The user brings a bad experience.

Summary of the invention

The following is an overview of the topics detailed in this document. This Summary is not intended to limit the scope of the claims.

This document provides a hotspot access method, device and terminal, which can not interrupt the user network service due to the automatic connection of the Wi-Fi module.

A hotspot access method applied to a terminal, comprising:

Determining the target hotspot scanned by the terminal;

Obtaining parameter information of the target hotspot if the terminal accesses the target hotspot;

If it is determined that the terminal needs to be controlled by the user to access the target hotspot according to the parameter information, the target hotspot is not automatically accessed.

Optionally, the parameter information includes identifier information of the target hotspot;

Determining, according to the parameter information, that the terminal needs to be controlled by the user to access the target hotspot, including:

Performing a matching search in the database according to the identifier information; wherein the database stores identifier information of a hotspot that needs to be authenticated and connected to the terminal after being accessed by the terminal; if the identifier is found in the database, The information determines that the terminal needs to be controlled by the user to access the target hotspot.

Optionally, the identifier information of the target hotspot is saved in a specified byte of the received management frame of the target hotspot.

Optionally, the method further includes:

According to the user operation, the identifier information of the hotspot that needs to be authenticated and connected to the terminal after the terminal is first accessed is added to the database.

Optionally, the parameter information includes encryption type information of the target hotspot;

If the encryption type information of the target hot spot indicates that the target hot spot is not encrypted, it is determined that the terminal needs to be controlled by the user to access the target hotspot.

Optionally, the method further includes:

After determining that the terminal needs to be controlled by the user to access the target hotspot, send an access prompt of the target hotspot to the user, and determine whether to access the target according to the operation of the access prompt by the user. hot spot.

A hotspot access device applied to a terminal, comprising:

a first determining module, configured to: determine a target hot spot scanned by the terminal;

Obtaining a module, configured to: if the terminal accesses the target hotspot, obtain parameter information of the target hotspot;

The processing module is configured to: if it is determined by the user that the terminal needs to access the target hotspot according to the parameter information, the target hotspot is not automatically accessed.

The processing module includes:

The matching sub-module is configured to perform a matching search in the database according to the identifier information, where the database stores the identifier information of the hotspot that needs to be authenticated and connected to the terminal after being accessed first;

The first determining sub-module is configured to: if the matching information is found in the database, determine that the terminal needs to be controlled by the user to access the target hotspot.

Optionally, the device further includes:

The adding module is configured to: add, according to a user operation, identifier information of the hotspot that needs to be authenticated and connected to the terminal after the terminal is first accessed.

The processing module further includes:

The second determining submodule is configured to: if the encryption type information of the target hotspot indicates that the target hotspot is not encrypted, determine that the terminal needs to be controlled by the user to access the target hotspot.

Optionally, the device further includes:

The prompting module is configured to: after determining that the terminal needs to be controlled by the user to access the target hotspot, send an access prompt of the target hotspot to the user, and determine, according to the operation of the access prompt by the user, Whether to access the target hotspot.

A terminal includes the above hotspot access device.

A computer readable storage medium storing computer executable instructions for performing the method of any of the above.

The solution of the embodiment of the present invention can prevent the terminal from automatically accessing the hotspot that cannot be directly connected to the network, thereby ensuring that the network service currently running by the terminal does not be interrupted due to switching the network, so that the user can get a better online experience.

Other aspects will be apparent upon reading and understanding the drawings and detailed description.

BRIEF abstract

FIG. 1 is a schematic flowchart diagram of a hotspot access method according to an embodiment of the present invention;

2 is a schematic structural diagram of a Beacon management frame of a hot spot;

FIG. 3 is a schematic diagram of a hotspot access method according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 4 is a schematic structural diagram of a hotspot access device according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Embodiments of the invention

The detailed description will be made below in conjunction with the accompanying drawings and embodiments.

As shown in FIG. 1 , an embodiment of the present invention provides a hotspot access method, including:

Step 11: Determine a target hot spot scanned by the terminal;

Step 12: If the terminal accesses the target hotspot, obtain parameter information of the target hotspot;

Step 13: If it is determined according to the parameter information that the terminal needs to be controlled by the user to access the target hotspot, the target hotspot is not automatically accessed.

Compared with the related art, in the method of the embodiment, after the terminal scans the open hotspot, the terminal does not directly select the access, but judges according to the parameter information of the hot spot, and cannot directly connect to the network after the terminal accesses. The hotspot does not actively access, which can avoid interrupting the network service currently running by the terminal, and let the user get a better online experience.

In the implementation process, a database may be established in the terminal or the service cloud, which is dedicated to storing the identification information of the hotspots that are authenticated first. The “first access after authentication” means that the terminal needs to access the hotspot before performing related authentication, and can connect to the network after the authentication is passed. After the terminal scans the target hotspot, the identifier information of the target hotspot is obtained, and the matching search is performed in the database according to the identifier information. If the identifier information is found in the database, it is determined that the terminal needs to be controlled by the user to access the target hotspot. In addition, the user can add the identification information in the database by himself, or upload his own database to the cloud to share with other users, when a hot spot is used by multiple users. After tagging, it will be saved in the cloud database, and users can choose to update the database information from the cloud.

Exemplarily, if it is determined that the terminal has not accessed the target hotspot before, the automatic access is not performed, and the user manually selects whether to access. After the user confirms that the target hotspot needs "first access after authentication", the identifier of the target hotspot may be actively added to the database. After the terminal enters the coverage of the target hotspot next time, it may be determined according to the database that the target hotspot is not automatically accessed. For a hotspot that has been previously accessed and does not store corresponding identification information in the database, the terminal can automatically access after scanning to save user traffic.

The identification information may be set by the hotspot provider and stored in a specified byte of the management frame of the hotspot. The terminal may receive the management frame of the target hotspot by scanning, and obtain the identification information of the target hotspot in the specified byte of the management frame.

Illustratively, the service set identifier SSID and/or physical address (ie, MAC address) of the target hotspot may be used as the identification information of the hotspot. It can also be customized by the hotspot provider, for example, the Beacon frame (one type of hotspot management frame) structure shown in FIG. 2, wherein the first behavior is the same content of all management frames, and the Frame Body is a Beacon frame. In the unique part, the Frame Body of the Beacon frame has multiple fields and elements Element. Fields are fixed length and Element is extensible. For the present embodiment, the specified field may be a Reserved field in the previous fixed length portion, or one or more custom Element.

On the basis of this, in order to save the step of performing matching search to the database, the hotspot provider can also save the specified identifier information in the specified byte of the management frame, which can directly inform the terminal whether the hotspot is of the type of “first access after authentication”. . For example, a "1" in a specified byte indicates a hotspot that requires "first connect and then authenticate", and a "0" indicates that a hotspot that does not need to be authenticated first. After receiving the management frame of the hotspot, if the terminal finds the specified “1” and/or “0” in the specified byte of the management frame, the terminal can directly confirm whether to automatically access.

In addition, all hotspots that are encrypted do not need to be authenticated (the hotspot password has already been used for authentication). Therefore, the embodiment may provide an access method, that is, the parameter information includes the encryption type information of the target hotspot; in the foregoing step 13, if the encryption type information of the target hotspot indicates the target If the hotspot is not encrypted, it is determined that the target hotspot needs to be accessed by the user.

It can be seen that, in this embodiment, the user confirms whether an unencrypted hotspot is connected, thereby preventing the terminal from being Interrupt the currently running service when switching the network connection mode.

Of course, as an alternative, the encryption type and the identification information may be combined to determine whether the target hotspot needs authentication. As shown in Figure 3, the following steps are included:

Step 301, the terminal provides a scan result of a hot spot;

Step 302, it is determined whether the scanned hotspot is saved in the terminal (the terminal only automatically accesses the previously accessed hotspot), if it is saved, then proceeds to step 303; if not, then returns to step 301;

Step 303, determining the type information of the hotspot, that is, determining whether the hotspot belongs to the type of "first access after authentication", if yes, executing step 307, if not, executing step 304;

And determining whether the beacon frame of the hot spot itself includes the flag information for directly indicating whether the hot spot is of the “first access after authentication” type, that is, “0” or “1” described above, if “0” is included. This means that the hotspot does not need to be authenticated and automatically accesses the scanned hotspot. If the value of "1" is included, it indicates that the hotspot needs to be authenticated; if the Beacon frame does not include the flag information that can directly indicate whether the hotspot is of the "first access after authentication" type, proceed to step 304;

Step 304, determining whether it is a non-encrypted hotspot, if the scanned hotspot is encrypted, performing step 306 to automatically access, if the scanned hotspot is of an open type, proceeding to step 305;

Step 305, whether the SSID and/or MAC address of the scanned hot spot exists in the database. If the matching finds the same SSID and/or MAC address in the database, step 308 is performed; if the database does not match, the same SSID and the same SSID are found. / or MAC address, then step 306;

Step 306 automatically accesses the scanned hotspot and ends the process.

Step 307, it is determined whether authentication is required, if necessary, step 308 is performed;

In step 308, the user is prompted to manually select whether to access the scanned hotspot.

The method of this embodiment will be described in detail below in conjunction with an implementation manner.

When the user opens the Wi-Fi function of the terminal, the method of the embodiment enters an activation state, and starts to monitor the result information of the terminal scanning Wi-Fi. After receiving the scan result of Wi-Fi, judge whether to automatically connect the hotspot according to the following information:

S1, first determine whether the currently scanned Wi-Fi hotspot has been accessed before, if there is no connection If the connection is not automatic, the user manually accesses and ends; if it has been connected before, it enters S2; in this step, according to the connection record of the terminal hotspot, it is determined whether the scanned hot spot has been connected before;

S2: Read the Beacon management frame of the Wi-Fi hotspot, and determine whether the customized identification information field is included therein. If it is included, it is directly determined according to this field whether it is automatically connected (the field is 0 for automatic connection, the field is 1 for no connection), and if it is not, it will enter S3.

S3, obtaining the encryption type of the Wi-Fi hotspot, because the Wi-Fi hotspots that need to be authenticated after the connection are generally open type hotspots, so if it is an encryption type hotspot, it is automatically connected, otherwise it enters S4.

S4: Obtain the name information (SSID) and the MAC address of the Wi-Fi hotspot, and then perform a matching search in the database. The search process has a priority change according to the user's setting, and uses the SSID and the MAC address to match. Do not connect if a match is found, otherwise it will automatically connect.

S5, this step is independent of the above steps S1 to S4, the user can newly add the Wi-Fi hotspot information in the database (can be added to the database after connecting a hotspot), and the user can also upload his own database to The cloud is shared with other users. When a Wi-Fi hotspot is marked by multiple users, it will enter the cloud database, and the user can choose to update the database information from the cloud.

In summary, the method in this embodiment compares with the related technologies to actively determine whether the open hotspot will cause a disconnection of the accessed terminal. Automatically accessing hotspots that do not cause network disconnection, prompting users for hotspots that can cause network disconnection, and manually accessing by users, thereby avoiding terminal hotspots that cannot be directly connected to the network due to automatic access. business.

In addition, as shown in FIG. 4, another embodiment of the present invention provides a hotspot access device, including:

The first determining module 41 is configured to: determine a target hot spot scanned by the terminal;

The obtaining module 42 is configured to: if the terminal accesses the target hotspot, obtain parameter information of the target hotspot;

The processing module 43 is configured to: if it is determined by the user that the terminal needs to access the target hotspot according to the parameter information, the target hotspot is not automatically accessed.

Compared with the related art, in the device of the embodiment, after the terminal scans the open hotspot, the terminal does not directly select the access, but judges according to the parameter information of the hot spot, and does not The hotspots that can be directly connected to the network are not actively accessed, which can avoid interrupting the network service currently running on the terminal and allow users to have a better online experience.

The parameter information includes identification information of the target hotspot;

The processing module includes:

The identifier information of the target hotspot is saved in a specified byte of the received management frame of the target hotspot.

Wherein, the device further comprises:

The parameter information includes encryption type information of the target hotspot;

The processing module further includes:

Wherein, the device further comprises:

Obviously, the hotspot access device of this embodiment can achieve the same technical effect corresponding to the hotspot access method described above.

In addition, another embodiment of the present invention provides a terminal, including the foregoing hotspot access device. The terminal may be a Wi-Fi enabled smart device such as a mobile phone or a pad.

One of ordinary skill in the art will appreciate that all or a portion of the steps of the above-described embodiments can be implemented using a computer program flow, which can be stored in a computer readable storage medium, such as on a corresponding hardware platform (eg, The system, device, device, device, etc. are executed, and when executed, include one or a combination of the steps of the method embodiments.

Alternatively, all or part of the steps of the above embodiments may also be implemented by using an integrated circuit. These steps may be separately fabricated into individual integrated circuit modules, or multiple modules or steps may be fabricated into a single integrated circuit module. achieve.

The devices/function modules/functional units in the above embodiments may be implemented by a general-purpose computing device, which may be centralized on a single computing device or distributed over a network of multiple computing devices.

When the device/function module/functional unit in the above embodiment is implemented in the form of a software function module and sold or used as a stand-alone product, it can be stored in a computer readable storage medium. The above mentioned computer readable storage medium may be a read only memory, a magnetic disk or an optical disk or the like.

Industrial applicability

Claims

A hotspot access method is applied to a terminal, and the method includes:

Determining the target hotspot scanned by the terminal;

Obtaining parameter information of the target hotspot if the terminal accesses the target hotspot;

If it is determined that the terminal needs to be controlled by the user to access the target hotspot according to the parameter information, the target hotspot is not automatically accessed.
The method of claim 1 wherein

The parameter information includes identification information of the target hotspot;

Determining, according to the parameter information, that the terminal needs to be controlled by the user to access the target hotspot, including:

Performing a matching search in the database according to the identifier information; wherein the database stores identifier information of a hotspot that needs to be authenticated and connected to the terminal after being accessed by the terminal; if the identifier is found in the database, The information determines that the terminal needs to be controlled by the user to access the target hotspot.
The method of claim 2, wherein

The identification information of the target hotspot is saved in a specified byte of the received management frame of the target hotspot.
The method of claim 2, the method further comprising:

According to the user operation, the identifier information of the hotspot that needs to be authenticated and connected to the terminal after the terminal is first accessed is added to the database.
The method of claim 1 wherein

The parameter information includes encryption type information of the target hotspot;

Determining, according to the parameter information, that the terminal needs to be controlled by the user to access the target hotspot, including:

If the encryption type information of the target hot spot indicates that the target hot spot is not encrypted, it is determined that the terminal needs to be controlled by the user to access the target hotspot.
The method of claim 2 or 5, further comprising:

After determining that the terminal needs to be controlled by the user to access the target hotspot, send an access prompt of the target hotspot to the user, and determine whether to access the target according to the operation of the access prompt by the user. hot spot.
A hotspot access device is applied to a terminal, including:

a first determining module, configured to: determine a target hot spot scanned by the terminal;

Obtaining a module, configured to: if the terminal accesses the target hotspot, obtain parameter information of the target hotspot;

The processing module is configured to: if it is determined by the user that the terminal needs to access the target hotspot according to the parameter information, the target hotspot is not automatically accessed.
The apparatus according to claim 7, wherein

The parameter information includes identification information of the target hotspot;

The processing module includes:

The matching sub-module is configured to perform a matching search in the database according to the identifier information, where the database stores the identifier information of the hotspot that needs to be authenticated and connected to the terminal after being accessed first;

The first determining sub-module is configured to: if the matching information is found in the database, determine that the terminal needs to be controlled by the user to access the target hotspot.
The device according to claim 8, wherein

The identification information of the target hotspot is saved in a specified byte of the received management frame of the target hotspot.
The apparatus of claim 8 further comprising:

The adding module is configured to: add, according to a user operation, identifier information of the hotspot that needs to be authenticated and connected to the terminal after the terminal is first accessed.
The apparatus according to claim 7, wherein

The parameter information includes encryption type information of the target hotspot;

The processing module further includes:

The second determining submodule is configured to: if the encryption type information of the target hotspot indicates that the target hotspot is not encrypted, determine that the terminal needs to be controlled by the user to access the target hotspot.
The device according to claim 8 or 11, the device further comprising:

The prompting module is configured to: after determining that the terminal needs to be controlled by the user to access the target hotspot, send an access prompt of the target hotspot to the user, and determine, according to the operation of the access prompt by the user, Whether to access the target hotspot.
A terminal comprising the hotspot access device of any of claims 7-12.
A computer readable storage medium storing computer executable instructions for performing the method of any of claims 1-6.