CN114745777A

CN114745777A - Network configuration method and interface and computer readable storage medium

Info

Publication number: CN114745777A
Application number: CN202210332327.3A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 章宦垟; 葛佩
Original assignee: Zhejiang Maojing Artificial Intelligence Technology Co ltd
Current assignee: Zhejiang Maojing Artificial Intelligence Technology Co ltd
Priority date: 2022-03-30
Filing date: 2022-03-30
Publication date: 2022-07-12

Abstract

The application discloses a network configuration method, an interface and a computer readable storage medium. The method comprises the following steps: detecting target equipment in a preset range around the network configuration equipment to acquire an equipment identifier of the target equipment, wherein the target equipment is equipment which does not join the first network; determining that the target device is a device to be networked according to the device identifier of the target device and a first device list which is stored in the network configuration device and is associated with the predetermined user account, wherein the device to be networked is a device which is associated with the predetermined user account in the first device list and does not join the first network; and carrying out network configuration processing on the target equipment so as to enable the target equipment to join the first network. According to the embodiment of the application, the automatic network distribution of the equipment can be realized without any manual confirmation operation, so that a noninductive network distribution is realized, and the experience of a user in using intelligent equipment is greatly improved.

Description

Network configuration method and interface and computer readable storage medium

Technical Field

The present application relates to the field of network technologies, and in particular, to a network configuration method, an interface, and a computer-readable storage medium.

Background

In the era of rapid development of intelligent technologies, more and more intelligent home products have gone into every family, and the intelligent home experience which is accessible to the touch of the user is provided. Particularly, the intelligent household product can automatically execute various operations for the user according to the instruction of the user, so that the user can really realize the 'only mouth' type intelligent household control in daily life or even work. In recent years, in particular, networked smart home services are implemented by means of a network in a smart home technology, so that smart home products can communicate with each other, exchange information, and receive various instructions sent by a user through a terminal by being connected with each other.

For example, a user may remotely issue a turn-on or turn-off command to a smart lamp or a smart socket product by means of a terminal, thereby implementing functions such as remote turn-on of a lamp or remote switching of an appliance. Especially along with the increase of the kind and the quantity of intelligent household product, the user still need carry out manual connection one by one to the intelligent household product of purchase and go into the net, this undoubtedly brings good not good influence to user's intelligent home experience, especially intelligent household product is originally the ease for improving intelligent science and technology product, reduce the use degree of difficulty among the people daily life, but carry out distribution network to different kinds of intelligent household product and handle, this has increased user's burden on the contrary, use experience has been reduced.

Disclosure of Invention

The embodiment of the application provides a network configuration method, an interface and a computer readable storage medium, which aim to overcome the defect that the user experience is poor due to the complex network distribution mode of new equipment in the prior art.

To achieve the above object, an embodiment of the present application provides a network configuration method, which is applied to a network configuration device having a gateway function in a first network and associated with a predetermined user account, and the method includes:

detecting target equipment in a preset range around the network configuration equipment to acquire an equipment identifier of the target equipment, wherein the target equipment is equipment which does not join the first network;

determining that the target device is a device to be networked according to the device identifier of the target device and a first device list which is stored in the network configuration device and is associated with the predetermined user account, wherein the device to be networked is a device which is associated with the predetermined user account in the first device list and does not join the first network;

and carrying out network configuration processing on the target equipment so as to enable the target equipment to join the first network.

The embodiment of the present application further provides a network configuration method, which is applied to a server, wherein the server communicates with a network configuration device, which has a gateway function and is associated with a predetermined user account, in a first network through a second network, and the method includes:

acquiring account information of a user account and a device identifier of a device to be networked, which is associated with the user account and is not yet added to the second network;

storing the device information of the device to be distributed in a first device list associated with the user account;

according to the account information of a preset user account associated with the network configuration equipment, sending a first equipment list corresponding to the preset user account to the network configuration equipment, so that the network configuration equipment joins a target equipment which is detected in a preset range around the equipment to be configured in the first equipment list and is matched with the equipment information in the first equipment list into the first network according to the equipment information of the equipment to be configured, wherein the target equipment is equipment which does not join the first network.

The embodiment of the present application further provides a network configuration interface, which is applied to a terminal of a user, where the interface includes:

the list display area is used for displaying a first equipment list associated with the account information of the user, wherein the first equipment list comprises equipment to be networked, which does not join a first network;

and the equipment information display area is used for displaying the equipment information of the equipment which has joined the first network.

An embodiment of the present application further provides an electronic device, including:

a memory for storing a program;

and the processor is used for operating the program stored in the memory, and the program executes the network configuration method provided by the embodiment of the application when running.

Embodiments of the present application further provide a computer-readable storage medium, on which a computer program executable by a processor is stored, where the program, when executed by the processor, implements the network configuration method provided by the embodiments of the present application.

According to the network configuration method, the network configuration interface and the computer-readable storage medium, the network configuration device which has a gateway function and is associated with the preset user account in the first network detects the target device in the preset range around the network configuration device, and determines that the detected target device is the device to be configured, which is associated with the user account and does not join the first network, according to the stored first device list associated with the preset user account, so as to execute network configuration on the target device. Therefore, when the network configuration device associated with the predetermined user account detects the target device around the network configuration device, the target device is confirmed to be the device associated with the predetermined user account and not to join the predetermined network according to the first device list associated with the predetermined user account stored in the network configuration device, so that the device can be directly configured to join the first network without manual confirmation of the user, and the detected device not to join the first network can be confirmed to be the device associated with the user account based on the first device list associated with the predetermined user account stored in the network configuration device in the whole process of network distribution, so that the automatic network distribution of the device can be realized only by powering on the device needing to join the first network without any manual confirmation operation for the user, therefore, the non-inductive distribution network is realized, and the experience of using intelligent equipment by a user is greatly improved.

The foregoing description is only an overview of the technical solutions of the present application, and the present application can be implemented according to the content of the description in order to make the technical means of the present application more clearly understood, and the following detailed description of the present application is given in order to make the above and other objects, features, and advantages of the present application more clearly understandable.

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Various other advantages and benefits will become apparent to those of ordinary skill in the art upon reading the following detailed description of the preferred embodiments. The drawings are only for purposes of illustrating the preferred embodiments and are not to be construed as limiting the application. Also, like reference numerals are used to refer to like parts throughout the drawings. In the drawings:

fig. 1a is a schematic view of an application scenario of a network configuration scheme provided in an embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 1b is a schematic diagram of a network configuration interface provided in an embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 2 is a flow chart of one embodiment of a network configuration method provided herein;

fig. 3 is a flowchart of another embodiment of a network configuration method provided by the present application;

fig. 4 is a flowchart of another embodiment of a network configuration method provided in the present application;

fig. 5 is a schematic structural diagram of an embodiment of an electronic device provided in the present application.

Detailed Description

Exemplary embodiments of the present disclosure will be described in more detail below with reference to the accompanying drawings. While exemplary embodiments of the present disclosure are shown in the drawings, it should be understood that the present disclosure may be embodied in various forms and should not be limited to the embodiments set forth herein. Rather, these embodiments are provided so that this disclosure will be thorough and complete, and will fully convey the scope of the disclosure to those skilled in the art.

Example one

The scheme provided by the embodiment of the application can be applied to any system with network configuration capability, such as a server system comprising a chip with a network information processing function and related components, and the like. Fig. 1a is a schematic view of an application scenario of a network configuration scheme provided in an embodiment of the present application, and the scenario shown in fig. 1a is only one example to which the technical scheme of the present application is applicable.

The intelligent home product can automatically execute various operations for the user according to the instruction of the user, so that the user can really realize easy and simple intelligent home control in daily life or even work. In recent years, in smart home technology, networked smart home services are implemented by means of a network, for example, a plurality of smart devices can be controlled through one socket, or a user can control appliances such as a refrigerator, a television, an air conditioner and the like in a home by sending out a voice command through one smart speaker.

Therefore, smart home products need to be connected to each other to communicate, exchange information, and enable a user to perform uniform control. For example, a user may remotely issue a turn-on or turn-off command to a smart lamp or a smart socket product by means of a terminal, thereby implementing functions such as remote turn-on of a lamp or remote switching of an appliance. Especially along with the increase of the kind and the quantity of intelligent household product, the user still need carry out manual connection one by one to the intelligent household product of purchasing one by one and net, this undoubtedly brings good not good influence to user's intelligent home furnishing experience, especially intelligent household product is originally the usability in order to improve intelligent science and technology product, reduce the use degree of difficulty among the people daily life, but carry out distribution network processing to different kinds of intelligent household product, this has increased user's burden on the contrary, use experience has been reduced.

A scenario in which the network configuration scheme according to the present application can be applied is shown in fig. 1 a. For example, as shown in fig. 1a, a smart speaker product, which may be a smart home product supporting a bluetooth Mesh (Mesh) network protocol or a Zigbee (Zigbee) protocol of WiFi, may have been placed in, for example, a room where a user lives, so that such smart speaker product may be used as a smart gateway for all smart products in the home to connect so that other products can be connected to each other. Of course, in the embodiment of the present application, the smart home product that can be used as the smart gateway is not limited to the smart audio, and any device that can support long-term power plug may be used as the network configuration device.

In the prior art, various distribution network schemes have been proposed. For example, in the field of wireless networks, it has been proposed to add amazon smart devices to a wireless network by scanning for and actively initiating a connection using hidden hotspots. However, in the field of smart homes, most smart homes can be connected in a bluetooth manner, and particularly, with the advent of the bluetooth Mesh technology, an existing central radial network is changed into a Mesh network supporting multiple hops, and the network does not use a routing protocol, but uses a network flooding management technology, that is, data sent by one node is forwarded by all nodes supporting relays, but is not forwarded indefinitely, and nodes that have forwarded the data are not forwarded any more. Since the bluetooth Mesh network does not need a central node and a central gateway, it allows nodes to communicate with each other, but the networking of each node is achieved by individual configuration. Therefore, in the existing smart home products, more and more products use the bluetooth Mesh as a network connection mode, so that connection and management of a large number of smart products in one space can be realized.

Therefore, as shown in fig. 1a, when a user wants to set up a smart home system, a product having a gateway function, such as a smart speaker, may be purchased first to be arranged in a home network as shown in fig. 1a, and on one hand, may be connected to a wired network through a network interface or may also be connected to a wireless network through a WiFi protocol, so that the smart speaker product may be connected to a server on the internet through the network to facilitate downloading an updated version from a dedicated server set by, for example, a manufacturer for updating. In addition, the intelligent sound box product can also receive a control instruction sent by a user through a terminal such as a smart phone by being connected to the internet, so that when the user purchases more intelligent household products and is connected to the network configuration equipment of the intelligent sound box product, the remote control of the user on the household equipment can be realized.

Therefore, after the user configures the smart sound box into the network, the user can continuously purchase other smart home products. For example, products such as other smart doorbells and smart bulbs developed by the same manufacturer as the smart speakers may be purchased, and since these products are developed by the same manufacturer, the same connection protocol as the smart speakers may be built in these products. For example, in the case that the smart speaker product supports bluetooth Mesh connection, a user may purchase a smart doorbell product developed by the manufacturer, and after the smart doorbell product is powered on/powered on in a home, the smart doorbell may broadcast own device information on a predetermined channel in a bluetooth network after being powered on, so that the smart speaker, which is a network configuration device in the bluetooth network, can discover the new device by detecting within a predetermined range around the smart speaker by broadcasting the own device information on the predetermined channel in the bluetooth network, and may transmit the information of the new device to the user's terminal, so that the user may check the information of the new device on the screen of the terminal to confirm whether the smart device is a smart device that is newly purchased and wants to join the home network. For example, the user may receive the new device discovery message through an application installed on the smart terminal for controlling the smart home product, and check whether the new device is a device that the user wants to join the bluetooth network by viewing information of the new device in the application. When the user confirms that the device is a new device which the user wants to join the Bluetooth network, the application program can be operated to send an instruction which allows the device to join the network to the smart speaker, so that the smart speaker can send network configuration information to the new device through the Bluetooth Mesh network, for example, and the new device and the smart speaker can complete network distribution operation according to a network distribution process specified in the Bluetooth Mesh protocol and join the network distribution operation into the Bluetooth Mesh network with the smart speaker as the network configuration device.

However, in the above networking scheme, after a user of a smart home product purchases a new smart home product, after powering on the new device, although the smart speaker as a network configuration device in the bluetooth network can discover the new device, the user still performs a manual confirmation process on an application program of, for example, a mobile terminal, so as to avoid mistakenly adding a smart device that is not all his own smart device, for example, a smart device newly purchased by a neighbor, to his own smart home system. Therefore, after the network configuration device such as a bluetooth speaker detects the target devices existing around the network configuration device, the network configuration device waits for the confirmation information sent by the user through the smart phone to perform network configuration on the new device. Therefore, if the user purchases a plurality of new devices, the user needs to check the device information detected by the bluetooth network configuration device one by one to confirm and issue a network access command. The complicated network access configuration process greatly increases the complexity of the user in using the intelligent household equipment, and reduces the use experience of the user.

For this reason, some solutions for an imperceptible network are proposed in the prior art, i.e. a solution that enables a new device to automatically join a predetermined network, such as a home network, without user involvement. For example, it is proposed in the prior art to configure a device through a network, such as a smart speaker, to actively open an active scanning window of 10 minutes in an attempt to add the scanned device to an existing bluetooth network. But the technical solution relies on the network configuration device to actively open the active scanning window on one hand, and only supports scanning and adding a single device within one window scanning period on the other hand. For the present stage of the smart home products, which have a great leap in leap and are largely applied to the family life by the users, the use experience of the users is seriously influenced.

For this reason, in the embodiment of the present application, for example, after the smart speaker is started, the user may first set the smart speaker to be associated with the user account of the user through a terminal device such as a mobile phone, and query the smart speaker whether a first device list associated with the user account is stored in the smart speaker. In this embodiment of the application, the first device list may be a device information list generated according to a purchase record of a user purchasing the smart device, where a correspondence relationship between a device purchased by the user and account information of a user account used by the user to manage the smart home device is particularly recorded. For example, a user may use a corresponding application in a mobile terminal, such as a cell phone, to enter his or her own account information registered with a provider that provides smart speakers and corresponding smart home services when configuring smart network configuration devices, such as smart speakers, so that when a smart speaker may be associated with a user account for the account information, and after connecting to the internet, the account information may be sent to a server on the internet so that the server may send to the smart speaker its stored first device list associated with the user account. In particular, when the user purchases the vendor or related smart device, the user may register his or her own account information with the vendor at the time of purchase, and the vendor or the user himself or herself upload the device information of the new device purchased by the user to the server in association with the account information, so that the server may record the device information of the new device in the first device list associated with the user account of the account information, based on the account information. In particular, in this embodiment, the first device list may be a list in which only devices of the bluetooth network that have not joined the user account are recorded, or may also be a list in which all devices purchased by the user and registered under the user account are recorded, which is not limited in this application.

Therefore, after the user purchases the smart speaker and associates the smart speaker with the user account, the smart speaker may acquire, as a network configuration device of the bluetooth network, a first device list associated with the user account from a server through, for example, the internet, so that after detecting a new device, the smart speaker may confirm whether the new device detected by the smart speaker is a device associated with the user account based on the first device list. For example, after the smart speaker boots up and associates with a user account, it may first search the internal storage space for the presence of a first device list associated with the user account, and if not, may request the first device list associated with the user account from the server through, for example, WiFi or a mobile network. If the first device list is queried in the bluetooth speaker as the network configuration device or the list has been obtained from the server, the smart speaker may start detecting target devices within a predetermined range around the smart speaker. For example, since according to the bluetooth BLE protocol, a device to join a bluetooth network may broadcast its own device information, such as a device identification, out over a designated channel to enable a network configuration device to discover the device. Therefore, in the embodiment of the present application, the smart speaker can acquire the device information broadcasted by the new device in the bluetooth network by monitoring the designated channels to discover the new devices around.

In addition, in the embodiment of the present application, in a case that the device list stored in the cloud server is a list of all devices associated with the user account, each device may be marked in the device list with its network entry in a network designated by the user, for example, a bluetooth network in which a smart speaker purchased by the user is used as a network configuration device. Therefore, when the server issues the first device list corresponding to the user account associated with the smart speaker to the smart speaker, the server may first screen the list of all devices associated with the user account stored therein according to the above-marked distribution network state of the devices, so that only the screened list of devices that have not yet been distributed is issued to the smart speaker as the first device list. Or, in this embodiment of the application, the server may also issue a list of all devices corresponding to the user account to the smart speaker, and the smart speaker performs screening according to the distribution network status of each device, and uses the screened device that has not yet been subjected to distribution network as the first device list.

In addition, in this embodiment of the application, after receiving the list of all devices associated with the user account sent by the server, the smart speaker may directly perform subsequent operations by using the list as the first device list without performing the above-mentioned screening. For example, the smart speaker may, after detecting a target device existing around the smart speaker, look up the device identifier of the target device in the list of all devices, and when the device identifier of the device to be networked whose distribution network status is not networked matches the device identifier of the device to be networked, may confirm that the target device is a new device associated with the user account, and may thus perform a network configuration process thereon.

As shown in fig. 1a, the smart sound box may perform the above-mentioned detection operation through a sensing module disposed therein, for example, monitor the specified information to obtain the device information of the new device, and after the sensing module obtains the device information of the new device, the smart sound box may search the device information obtained by the sensing module in a first device list stored in the local storage space, so as to determine whether the device information obtained by the sensing module matches with which device information recorded in the first device list. In other words, when the device information acquired by the awareness module can be matched with a certain piece of device information recorded in the first device list, it is indicated that the new device corresponding to the device information acquired by the awareness module is a device purchased by the user as described above, that is, a new device associated with the account of the user.

Specifically, since the first device list is associated with the user account, and each time the user purchases a new device, the retailer or the user himself or herself may cause the server to record the device information of the new device into the device list associated with the user account by uploading the device information of the new device and the account information of the user account to the server. Thus, the list of devices associated with the account recorded in the server is effectively a list of all devices that the user has purchased and registered under his account. Therefore, in the embodiment of the present application, when the smart speaker requests the device list from the server, the request may include account information of the current user, so that the server may send the device list corresponding to the account information to the smart speaker. Therefore, when the user purchases and registers a new device with its account information to the server, and when the user takes the home and powers on, the smart speaker can directly confirm that the new device is actually purchased with the account information if the new device information scanned by the smart speaker matches the device information in the device list acquired from the server, and thus, the target device corresponding to the device information can be subjected to network distribution processing so as to be added to, for example, a bluetooth Mesh network in which the smart speaker is used as a network configuration device.

After the distribution network is completed for the new device, the new device becomes, in effect, a networked device, and thus, the smart speaker may delete the new device from its locally stored first device list to generate a second device list, and may upload the second device list with the networked device deleted to the server to update the first device list stored at the server. Or, the smart speaker may also send a result that the new device has been networked to the server as a notification message in association with the account information of the user, so that the server may delete the networked new device from the first device list created under the account information according to the message or mark the device in the to-be-sensed list as having completed networking, so that the states of the devices in the first device list stored at the server are consistent with the states of the devices after the smart speaker has performed network configuration in its network.

In addition, after the smart speaker deletes the new device that has been networked in the first device list stored locally, it may further check whether the first device list is empty, that is, whether there is a device that is not connected in the first device list. That is, if the first device list is empty, it indicates that the distribution of all new devices has been completed, and thus the smart speaker may notify the perception module to stop the detection process.

Or, after the network configuration is completed for the detected target device and the target device is added to the bluetooth network, the smart speaker may mark the device corresponding to the target device in the first device list stored locally as being added to the bluetooth network, and further detect whether there is a device in the list that is marked as not being added to the bluetooth network, and when no other device that is not added to the bluetooth network is detected in the list, may similarly stop performing the detection process on the devices around the smart speaker.

In addition, after the smart sound box executes distribution of the new device scanned by the sensing module, whether the device is already added to the bluetooth network can be determined according to a distribution response message returned by the new device. If the response message returned by the device indicates that the device fails to access the network, that is, the device fails to join the bluetooth network with the bluetooth speaker as the gateway, it indicates that the configuration operation has failed. The smart speaker may notify the perception module to detect the devices around it again so that the re-detected devices may be configured for the network.

In the embodiment of the application, a network configuration interface can be displayed on the user terminal of the user, so that the user can know the network configuration situation of the purchased equipment in time. For example, as shown in fig. 1b, fig. 1b is a schematic diagram illustrating a network configuration interface according to an embodiment of the application.

A list presentation area may be included in the interface for displaying a first list of devices associated with the user account. In particular, the first device list may include device identifiers of devices of the bluetooth network that are not participating in the user, for example, bluetooth speakers as network configuration devices. For example, when the bluetooth speaker detects the surroundings thereof and finds a target device, the bluetooth speaker may send the device identifier of the found target device to the user terminal, and may display the device identifier in the list display area, so that the user may know which new devices to be added to the smart home system are currently found, and may know the situations of the new devices according to the device identifier or further displayed device information. Further, in this embodiment of the application, the user may also instruct the smart speaker to perform the network configuration process on some or all of the newly discovered target devices by selecting the presentation device on the interface.

In addition, the interface may further include a device information display area, where the device information display area may be used to display device information of a target device that has joined the bluetooth network by performing network configuration processing according to the first device list, and therefore, a user may know, through the device information display area, device information of a device that has currently completed network configuration and joined the bluetooth network.

Therefore, after the user purchases new equipment, as long as the self intelligent household control account information and the purchased equipment information are registered at the purchase place and uploaded to the server, a non-inductive distribution network for the new equipment at home can be realized, the difficulty of using the intelligent household equipment by the user is greatly reduced, and the use experience of the user is improved.

The above embodiments are illustrations of technical principles and exemplary application frameworks of the embodiments of the present application, and specific technical solutions of the embodiments of the present application are further described in detail below through a plurality of embodiments.

Example two

Fig. 2 is a flowchart of an embodiment of a network configuration method provided in the present application, and an execution subject of the method may be various terminal or server devices with network information processing capability, or may be a device or chip integrated on these devices. As shown in fig. 2, the network configuration method may be applied to a network configuration device having a gateway function in a predetermined network such as a bluetooth network, and may include the steps of:

s201, detecting target equipment in a preset range around the network configuration equipment to obtain equipment identification of the target equipment.

In step S201, a network configuration device, such as a bluetooth network, may first detect a target device present within a predetermined range around the network configuration device. In the embodiment of the present application, since the bluetooth device generally has a certain coverage, the smart speaker, which is a network configuration device of the bluetooth network, may receive the device information broadcast by the device that has not joined the bluetooth network. For example, in the bluetooth Mesh network, a target device that is not yet networked may broadcast its own device information, such as a device identifier, to the surroundings through a specified channel, so that in step S201, the device information broadcast by such a device that is not configured to be networked that exists around the network configuration device may be acquired by performing detection within a predetermined range around the network configuration device.

S202, according to the device identification of the target device and a first device list which is stored in the network configuration device and is associated with the preset user account, determining that the target device is the device to be networked.

In step S202, it may be determined that the target device is a device to be networked according to the device identifier of the target device acquired in step S201 and the first device list associated with the user account stored in the network configuration device. That is, as the network configuration device, it may be set by the user in advance so that the network configuration device is associated with the user account of the user, and therefore, in step S202, the network configuration device may determine whether the device detected in step S201 is a smart device that is purchased by the user and that wants to be bound for use under the corresponding user account according to the first device list associated with the user account stored therein. For example, the user may associate the device information of the purchased new device with the own user account at the time of purchase, and add the device to the first device list by uploading the server, all devices associated with the user account of the user but not yet participating in the bluetooth network may be recorded in the first device list, and of course, all devices already participating in the bluetooth network and associated with the user account may be recorded in the first device list, that is, all networked devices and devices to be networked associated with the user account of the user may be recorded in the first device list, which is not limited in this application. Therefore, in step S202, the device identifier acquired in step S201 may be looked up in the list to confirm that the new device detected in step S201 is the device to be networked associated with the user account.

S203, perform network configuration processing on the target device, so that the target device joins the first network.

Therefore, when it is determined in step S202 that the target device detected in step S201 is indeed a device to be networked that the user wants to use under the user account and has not joined the bluetooth network, in step S203, the network distribution process may be performed on the unconfigured device detected in step S201. For example, configuration information for the bluetooth network may be sent by the smart speaker to the new device so that the new device may use the information to join the bluetooth Mesh network.

Therefore, according to the network configuration method provided in the embodiment of the present application, a network configuration device having a gateway function and associated with a predetermined user account in a first network detects a target device within a predetermined range around the network configuration device, and determines, according to a first device list stored in the first network and associated with the predetermined user account, that the detected target device is a device to be configured, which is associated with the user account and does not join the first network, so as to perform network configuration on the target device. Therefore, when the network configuration device associated with the predetermined user account detects the target device around the network configuration device, the target device is confirmed to be the device associated with the predetermined user account and not to join the predetermined network according to the first device list associated with the predetermined user account stored in the network configuration device, so that the device can be directly subjected to network configuration without manual confirmation of the user, so as to join the device in the first network, and the detected device not to join the first network can be confirmed to be the device associated with the user account based on the first device list associated with the predetermined user account stored in the network configuration device in the whole distribution network process, so that the automatic distribution network of the device can be realized for the user only by powering on the device needing to join the first network without any manual confirmation operation, therefore, a non-inductive distribution network is realized, and the experience of using intelligent equipment by a user is greatly improved.

EXAMPLE III

Fig. 3 is a flowchart of another embodiment of the network configuration method provided in the present application, and an execution subject of the method may be various terminal or server devices with network information processing capability, or may be a device or chip integrated on these devices. As shown in fig. 3, on the basis of the above-mentioned embodiment shown in fig. 2, the network configuration method provided in the embodiment of the present application may be applied to a network configuration device having a gateway function in a predetermined network, such as a bluetooth network, and may include the following steps:

s301, a device list including devices which are not connected with a network and are associated with a preset user account is obtained from a server to serve as a first device list.

In an embodiment of the application, the network configuration device, e.g. a bluetooth speaker, may be connected to a server storing account information of at least one user account and device information of devices associated with the user account via a second network, e.g. the internet. Therefore, in step S301, it may be first queried in a local, for example, a local storage space of the smart speaker whether the first device list exists and obtained from the server when the list is not queried, or in step S301, it may also be directly obtained from the server, and then it is detected whether the list exists in the local storage space of the smart speaker, and when the locally stored list is detected, the local list may also be overwritten with the first device list obtained from the server, or it may also be further compared with version information of the first device list obtained from the server and the locally detected first device list, and the first device list with newer version information is used as the first device list used in subsequent distribution network processing. In the embodiment of the present application, since the network configuration device, such as the bluetooth speaker, has been previously configured by the user to be associated with the user account of the user, the first device list may be a list of devices associated with the user account that have not been connected to the bluetooth network. For example, each time a user newly purchases a smart home device, the device may be added to a first device list associated with the user account by uploading account information of the user and a device identification of the associated new device by a retailer or the user himself, and all smart devices purchased by the user may be recorded in the list, and devices that have not been added to the bluetooth network in which the smart speaker serves as a gateway may be included.

For example, a user may use a corresponding application program in a mobile terminal, such as a mobile phone, to input account information registered by the user at a provider providing smart speakers and corresponding smart home services when configuring smart network configuration devices, such as smart speakers, so that when a smart speaker can be associated with a user account of the account information, and after connecting to the internet, the account information may be sent to a server on the internet, so that the server may send a first device list stored by the server and associated with the user account to the smart speaker. In particular, when the user purchases the vendor or related smart device, the user may register his or her own account information with the vendor at the time of purchase, and the vendor or the user himself or herself upload the device information of the new device purchased by the user to the server in association with the account information, so that the server may record the device information of the new device in the first device list associated with the user account of the account information, based on the account information. In particular, in this embodiment, the first device list may be a list in which only devices of the bluetooth network that have not joined the user account are recorded, or may also be a list in which all devices purchased by the user and registered under the user account are recorded, which is not limited in this application.

Therefore, after the user purchases the smart speaker and associates the smart speaker with the user account, the smart speaker may acquire, as a network configuration device of the bluetooth network, a first device list associated with the user account from a server through, for example, the internet, so that after detecting a new device, the smart speaker may confirm whether the new device detected by the smart speaker is a device associated with the user account based on the first device list. For example, after the smart speaker boots up and associates with a user account, it may first search the internal storage space for the presence of a first device list associated with the user account, and if not, may request the first device list associated with the user account from the server through, for example, WiFi or a mobile network.

After the first device list is obtained in step S301, it may also be detected whether a device to be networked exists in the list, that is, whether a device associated with the user account but not yet joined to the bluetooth network exists in the first device list. If the device to be configured does not exist in the device list, it indicates that the network configuration of all the new devices has been completed, and therefore the smart sound box may stop the detection process.

S302, acquiring the device identification broadcast by the target device in the predetermined channel of the first network.

After the first device list is acquired in step S301, target devices within a predetermined range around the network configuration device may be detected in step S302, for example, device identifiers broadcast by a new device may be acquired by listening to a specified channel. For example, in the embodiment of the present application, the detection of the target device may be performed in a bluetooth low energy mode. According to the bluetooth BLE protocol, a new device may broadcast its own device information, such as a device identification, out over a designated channel to enable a network configuration device to discover the device. Therefore, in step S302, the network configuration device, such as a smart speaker, can acquire the device identification broadcast by the new device in the bluetooth low energy mode by listening to these designated channels, so that it can discover new devices existing around the network configuration device that have not joined the bluetooth network.

S303, determining that the target device is the device to be networked according to the device identifier of the target device and a first device list which is stored in the network configuration device and is associated with a preset user account.

In step 303, it may be determined whether the target device is a device to be networked that is associated with the user account but has not joined the bluetooth network according to the device identifier obtained in step 302 and the first device list obtained in step S301, that is, whether the target device detected in step S302 is a smart device that is purchased by the user and is intended to be bound to be used under the corresponding user account.

For example, if the device information broadcasted by the new device is acquired through detection in step S302, it indicates that there may be a device that needs to join the bluetooth network near the current smart gateway, but since the bluetooth coverage area of the bluetooth speaker is a circular area with the bluetooth speaker as the center, the target device detected by the perception module in the bluetooth speaker may be a device of another person that is also in the coverage area, for example, a new device that is also purchased by the neighboring home, and therefore, although the target device is detected in step S302, it cannot be confirmed whether the device is the device of the user at this time. In other words, since the detection performed in step S302 is to listen to the device information broadcasted in the designated channel, if there is also a new device purchased by another user in the space covered by the current smart gateway or, for example, in the user 'S room partition, then it is likely that the device information of the new device is acquired in step S302, but the device is not purchased by the current user and therefore should not be added to the user' S current home smart network either.

Therefore, in step S303, matching may be performed according to the device information acquired in step S302 and the device information in the device list acquired in step S301. Since the device list acquired in step S301 is an account associated with the user account and the user account is also an account associated with the bluetooth speaker, all devices that the user purchased and registered under the user account are described in the first device list. Therefore, if device information matching the device information acquired in step S302 is found in the list in step S303, it can be confirmed that the new device detected in step S302 is indeed a new device that the user wants to use under the account. On the contrary, if the device information acquired in step S302 is not matched in the device list, it indicates that the currently scanned device is not a device that the user wants to join the intelligent network or a device purchased by the user.

S304, network configuration processing is carried out on the target device, so that the target device joins in the first network.

Therefore, when it is confirmed in step S303 that the new device detected in step S302 is indeed a device that the user wants to use under the user account and has not joined the network such as the bluetooth speaker, in step S304, the network configuration process may be performed on the target device scanned in step S302. For example, the configuration information of the bluetooth network where the smart speaker is located may be sent to the new device, so that the new device may use the information to join the bluetooth Mesh network.

S305, delete the device information of the device to be provisioned, which is matched with the device identifier of the target device, from the first device list, or mark the device to be provisioned as having been added to the first network, so as to generate a second device list.

S306, the second device list is sent to the server so as to update the first device list stored in the server.

After the network distribution of the new device is completed, the new device becomes a device that has actually been networked, so in step S305, the device identifier corresponding to the new device may be deleted from the first device list or the device information of the device to be networked corresponding to the first device list may be marked as having joined the first network to generate a second device list, and in step S306, the network configuration device may upload the device information of the device that has been deleted or the second device list generated by performing the status modification to the server, so as to update the first device list stored at the server. Or, the smart speaker may also send a result that the new device has been networked to the server as a notification message in association with the account information of the user, so that the server may delete the networked new device from the first device list under the account information or mark the device in the to-be-sensed list as having completed networking according to the message to generate a second device list, so that the states of the devices in the first device list stored at the server are consistent with the states of the devices after the smart speaker has performed network configuration in its network.

Or, after the smart speaker completes network configuration for the detected target device and makes the detected target device join the bluetooth network, the device corresponding to the target device in the first device list stored locally may be marked as having joined the bluetooth network, and further, whether there is any device in the list marked as not having joined the bluetooth network yet is detected, and when no other device that has not joined the bluetooth network is detected in the list, the smart speaker may similarly stop performing detection processing on the devices around the smart speaker. In addition, after the smart sound box executes distribution of the new device scanned by the sensing module, whether the device is already added to the bluetooth network can be determined according to a distribution response message returned by the new device. If the response message returned by the device indicates that the device fails to access the network, that is, the device fails to join the bluetooth network with the bluetooth speaker as the gateway, it indicates that the configuration operation has failed. The smart speaker may notify the perception module to detect the devices around it again so that the re-detected devices may be configured for the network.

Therefore, according to the network configuration method provided in the embodiment of the present application, a network configuration device having a gateway function and associated with a predetermined user account in a first network detects a target device within a predetermined range around the network configuration device, and determines, according to a first device list stored in the first network and associated with the predetermined user account, that the detected target device is a device to be configured, which is associated with the user account and does not join the first network, so as to perform network configuration on the target device. Therefore, when the network configuration device associated with the predetermined user account detects the target device around the network configuration device, the target device is confirmed to be the device associated with the predetermined user account and not to join the predetermined network according to the first device list associated with the predetermined user account stored in the network configuration device, so that the device can be directly configured to join the first network without manual confirmation of the user, and the detected device not to join the first network can be confirmed to be the device associated with the user account based on the first device list associated with the predetermined user account stored in the network configuration device in the whole process of network distribution, so that the automatic network distribution of the device can be realized only by powering on the device needing to join the first network without any manual confirmation operation for the user, therefore, a non-inductive distribution network is realized, and the experience of using intelligent equipment by a user is greatly improved.

Example four

Fig. 4 is a flowchart of a network configuration method according to another embodiment of the present application. The execution main body of the method can be various terminal or server devices with network information processing capability, and can also be devices or chips integrated on the devices. As shown in fig. 4, the network configuration method provided by the embodiment of the present application may be applied to a server which may communicate with a network configuration device having a gateway function and associated with a predetermined user account in a first network, for example, a bluetooth network, through a second network, for example, the internet, and the method may include the steps of:

s401, account information of the user and equipment identification of equipment to be networked, which is associated with the account information and is not added to a second network, are obtained.

S402, storing the device identification of the device to be networked in a first device list associated with the user account.

In step S401, the server may acquire account information of the user and device information associated with the account information from, for example, a retailer or the user' S own user terminal. For example, after the user purchases a new device, the server may be caused to store the device information of the new device in the first device list associated with the account information in step S402 by uploading the device information of the new device and the account information of the user to the server by the retailer or the user himself. Thus, the first device list recorded in the server in association with the account is effectively a list of all devices that the user has purchased and registered under his account. All smart devices purchased by the user may be recorded in the list and may include devices that have not joined the bluetooth network of the smart speaker as a gateway.

And S403, according to the account information of the preset user account associated with the network configuration device, sending the first device list corresponding to the preset user account to the network configuration device.

In step S403, the first device list stored in step S402 may be sent to a network configuration device, such as a smart speaker, according to a request of the network configuration device. For example, the request sent by the network configuration device may include account information of the current user, so that the server may send the first device list stored in association with the user account in step S402 to the smart speaker. Therefore, after the server receives the user purchase record in step S401 and stores the device in the first device list in step S402, the first device list may be directly issued to the smart speaker in step S403 or may be issued according to a request of the smart speaker, so that the smart speaker can confirm that the detected new device is indeed purchased with the account information according to the list, and therefore, the target device corresponding to the device information may be subjected to distribution network processing so as to be added to the smart speaker as a network configuration device, for example, in a bluetooth Mesh network.

In addition, after the configuration device joins the target device detected in the predetermined range around the target device and matched with the device information in the first device list issued by the server in step S403 to the first network, the new device becomes a device that has actually joined the network, so the network configuration device may delete the device identifier corresponding to the device from the first device list or may mark the device information of the device to be networked corresponding to the first device list as having joined the first network to generate a second device list, and the network configuration device may upload the device information of the device that has deleted the network or the second device list generated by performing the status modification to the server to update the first device list stored at the server. Or, the network configuration device may also send a result that the new device has entered into the network to the server as a notification message in association with account information of the user, so that the server may delete the new device that has entered into the network from a first device list under the account information according to the message or mark the device in the to-be-sensed list as having completed entering into the network to generate a second device list, so that the state of the device in the first device list stored at the server is consistent with the state of the device after the smart sound box has performed network configuration in its network.

According to the network configuration method provided by the embodiment of the application, the detected target equipment can be subjected to network configuration by the network configuration equipment according to the first equipment list, by storing the equipment identification of the equipment which is associated with the user account and has not joined into the first network into the first equipment list associated with the user account and sending the first equipment list to the network configuration equipment, so that the information of the new equipment purchased and associated by the user through the specified user account can be recorded in advance, and when the network configuration equipment detects the target equipment around the network configuration equipment by sending the information to the network configuration equipment for executing network configuration, the target equipment is confirmed to be the equipment which is associated with the predetermined user account and has not joined into the predetermined network according to the first equipment list associated with the predetermined user account and stored in the network configuration equipment, therefore, the equipment can be directly configured in the network without manual confirmation of a user, so that the equipment can be added into the first network, the detected equipment which is not added into the first network can be confirmed to be the equipment associated with the user account based on the first equipment list which is stored in the network configuration equipment and is associated with the preset user account, the automatic network distribution of the equipment can be realized only by starting the equipment which needs to be added into the first network for the user without any manual confirmation operation, the sensorless network distribution is realized, and the experience of the user in using the intelligent equipment is greatly improved.

EXAMPLE five

The internal functions and structures of the network configuration device are described above, and the apparatus may be implemented as an electronic device. Fig. 5 is a schematic structural diagram of an embodiment of an electronic device provided in the present application. As shown in fig. 5, the electronic device includes a memory 51 and a processor 52.

The memory 51 stores programs. In addition to the above-described programs, the memory 51 may also be configured to store other various data to support operations on the electronic device. Examples of such data include instructions for any application or method operating on the electronic device, contact data, phonebook data, messages, pictures, videos, and so forth.

The memory 51 may be implemented by any type or combination of volatile or non-volatile memory devices, such as Static Random Access Memory (SRAM), electrically erasable programmable read-only memory (EEPROM), erasable programmable read-only memory (EPROM), programmable read-only memory (PROM), read-only memory (ROM), magnetic memory, flash memory, magnetic or optical disks.

The processor 52 is not limited to a processor (CPU), but may be a processing chip such as a Graphic Processing Unit (GPU), a Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA), an embedded neural Network Processor (NPU), or an Artificial Intelligence (AI) chip. The processor 52, coupled to the memory 51, executes the program stored in the memory 51 to perform the network configuration method of the second or third embodiment.

Further, as shown in fig. 5, the electronic device may further include: communication components 53, power components 54, audio components 55, display 56, and other components. Only some of the components are schematically shown in fig. 5, and it is not meant that the electronic device comprises only the components shown in fig. 5.

The communication component 53 is configured to facilitate wired or wireless communication between the electronic device and other devices. The electronic device may access a wireless network based on a communication standard, such as WiFi, 3G, 4G, or 5G, or a combination thereof. In an exemplary embodiment, the communication component 53 receives a broadcast signal or broadcast related information from an external broadcast management system via a broadcast channel. In an exemplary embodiment, the communication component 53 further comprises a Near Field Communication (NFC) module to facilitate short-range communication. For example, the NFC module may be implemented based on Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology, infrared data association (IrDA) technology, Ultra Wideband (UWB) technology, Bluetooth (BT) technology, and other technologies.

A power supply component 54 provides power to the various components of the electronic device. The power components 54 may include a power management system, one or more power supplies, and other components associated with generating, managing, and distributing power for electronic devices.

The audio component 55 is configured to output and/or input audio signals. For example, the audio component 55 includes a Microphone (MIC) configured to receive external audio signals when the electronic device is in an operational mode, such as a call mode, a recording mode, and a voice recognition mode. The received audio signal may further be stored in the memory 51 or transmitted via the communication component 53. In some embodiments, audio assembly 55 also includes a speaker for outputting audio signals.

The display 56 includes a screen, which may include a Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) and a Touch Panel (TP). If the screen includes a touch panel, the screen may be implemented as a touch screen to receive an input signal from a user. The touch panel includes one or more touch sensors to sense touch, slide, and gestures on the touch panel. The touch sensor may not only sense the boundary of a touch or slide action, but also detect the duration and pressure associated with the touch or slide operation.

Those of ordinary skill in the art will understand that: all or a portion of the steps of implementing the above-described method embodiments may be performed by hardware associated with program instructions. The program may be stored in a computer-readable storage medium. When executed, the program performs steps comprising the method embodiments described above; and the aforementioned storage medium includes: various media that can store program codes, such as ROM, RAM, magnetic or optical disks.

Finally, it should be noted that: the above embodiments are only used to illustrate the technical solution of the present invention, and not to limit the same; while the invention has been described in detail and with reference to the foregoing embodiments, it will be understood by those skilled in the art that: the technical solutions described in the foregoing embodiments may still be modified, or some or all of the technical features may be equivalently replaced; and these modifications or substitutions do not depart from the spirit of the corresponding technical solutions of the embodiments of the present invention.

Claims

1. A network configuration method applied to a network configuration device having a gateway function in a first network and associated with a predetermined user account, and comprising:

2. The network configuration method of claim 1, wherein the network configuration device is a smart speaker.

3. The network configuration method of claim 1, wherein the network configuration device is connected to a server storing account information for at least one user account and device information for devices associated with the user account over a second network, and prior to detecting target devices within a predetermined range around the network configuration device, the method further comprises:

obtaining, from the server, a device list including non-network-distribution devices associated with the predetermined user account as the first device list.

4. The network configuration method of claim 3, wherein after the network configuration processing is performed on the target device to cause the target device to join the first network, the method further comprises:

deleting the device information of the device to be networked matched with the device identifier of the target device from the first device list or marking the device to be networked as the device to be networked to be added to the first network so as to generate a second device list;

and sending the second equipment list to the server so as to update the first equipment list stored in the server.

5. The network configuration method of claim 1, wherein the detecting a target device within a predetermined range around the network configuration device comprises:

and acquiring the device identification broadcast by the target device in a predetermined channel of the first network.

6. A network configuration method applied to a server, wherein the server communicates with a network configuration device having a gateway function and associated with a predetermined user account in a first network through a second network, and the method comprises:

acquiring account information of a user account and a device identifier of a device to be networked, which is associated with the user account and is not added to the first network;

storing the device identification of the device to be configured in a first device list associated with the user account;

7. The network configuration method of claim 6, wherein the method further comprises:

receiving a device identifier of a target device which has joined the first network and account information of the predetermined user account, which are sent by the network configuration device;

and according to the equipment identification, marking the equipment to be networked matched with the equipment identification in the first equipment list corresponding to the preset user account as the equipment which is added into the first network.

8. The network configuration method of claim 6, wherein the method further comprises:

receiving a second device list sent by the network configuration device, wherein the second device list is generated by deleting, by the network configuration device, a target device which has joined the first network from a first device list stored by the network configuration device;

and updating the equipment information of the equipment to be networked corresponding to the user account according to the second equipment list.

9. A network configuration interface applied to a terminal of a user, wherein the interface comprises:

10. A computer-readable storage medium, on which a computer program is stored which is executable by a processor, wherein the program, when executed by the processor, implements the network configuration method of any one of claims 1 to 8.