US 12,133,068 B2
Electronic device and control method therefor
Suk Won Choi, Suwon-si (KR); Hyun Jae Shin, Suwon-si (KR); and Dong Yun Hwang, Suwon-si (KR)
Assigned to Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si (KR)
Appl. No. 17/288,717
Filed by Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si (KR)
PCT Filed Oct. 29, 2019, PCT No. PCT/KR2019/014372
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Apr. 26, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/091382, PCT Pub. Date May 7, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. 10-2018-0133602 (KR), filed on Nov. 2, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2021/0400477 A1, Dec. 23, 2021
Int. Cl. H04W 12/06 (2021.01); H04W 4/80 (2018.01); H04W 12/037 (2021.01); H04W 12/08 (2021.01); H04W 12/63 (2021.01)
CPC H04W 12/06 (2013.01) [H04W 12/037 (2021.01); H04W 12/08 (2013.01); H04W 12/63 (2021.01); H04W 4/80 (2018.02)] 13 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An electronic device comprising:
a first communicator configured to perform data communication with a server and a second communicator of a new electronic device which is not registered in an access point (AP);
a storage configured to store first authentication information for accessing the AP; and
a controller configured to:
upon receiving second authentication information for registering the new electronic device through the first communicator from the server, store the second authentication information in the storage,
upon receiving device identification information of the new electronic device through the first communicator from the new electronic device, compare the received identification information with the second authentication information,
in response to the received identification information matching the second authentication information, control the first communicator to transmit the authentication information, which allows the new electronic device to access the AP, to the second communicator of the new electronic device,
wherein the first_authentication information is stored in the storage prior to receiving the device identification information of the new electronic device.