Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

Jongmu Choi

Bokun Choi

Doosuk Kang

Hakkwan Kim

Changsoon Kim

Gupil Cheong

Sungjun Choi

Seongyu Cho

NamJu Cho

Hyunkee Min

Moonsoo Kim

Seungjae Lee

Sungjun Kim

Yeunwook Lim

Sunkee Lee

Junyoung Park

Inshik Shin

Jinhyun Park

Doo-Suk Kang

Buseop Jung

Banghyun Kwon

Sun-Kee Lee

Hyunah Oh

Byunghoon Kang

Chunho Park

Hyunwoong Kwon

Eun Jung Hyun

Jun-Hak Lim

Namju Cho

Jungkuk Seo

Namyong Kang

Wonkyoung Jang

Doosu Na

Janghoon Lee

Jesus Manuel Perez Pueyo

Min-Ho Kang

Heechan Kim

Wontae Chae

Seungyun Song

Yukyung Kim

Jaecheol Kwon

Byunghoon Seo

Chanki Cho

Sooji Kim

Ye-Ji Yoon

Yongjoon Jeon

Dongwoo Kim

Jinwoo Lee

Jung-Hun Lee

Jaehwan Kim

Sunkey Lee

Suhyun Kim

Junghun Kim

Ilsung Hong

Gyujin Lee

Jaeho Song

Inhyuk Choi

Dooho Lee

Byoungchul Lee

Sangmi Park

Youngkow Lee

Seongbok Kim

Taeyoung Jeong

Jaheon Gu

Mingu Kang

Mincheol Jeong

Junhwan An

SeungJae Lee

Seongji Kim

Yunmi Ju

Dongeup Ham

Gwangmin Kim

Dayeong Choi

According to various embodiments, an electronic device may include: a communication module comprising communication circuitry configured to support a first communication method and a second communication method, a memory, and a processor operatively connected to the communication module and the memory. The processor may be configured to: control the electronic device to connect to a first AP included in a first AP list based on the first communication method, receive a signal based on the second communication method transmitted from an external electronic device, obtain account information about the external electronic device and a second AP list including information about a second AP connected with the external electronic device from the external electronic device based on the second communication method upon receiving the signal, determine at least one AP, based on the first AP list and the second AP list based on account information about the electronic device and the account information about the external electronic device at least partly matching, and control the electronic device to perform wireless communication with the external electronic device based on the first communication method through the determined AP.

Method and electronic device for communicating based on access point

In accordance with an aspect of the disclosure, an electronic device is provided. The electronic device comprises an antenna array, a wireless communication module electrically connected to the antenna array and configured to form directional beams through the antenna array, at least one processor operatively connected to the wireless communication module; and a memory operatively connected to the at least one processor. The memory stores instructions causing the at least one processor to perform a plurality of operations comprising: transmitting a sequence of first directional beams having a first beam width to scan first regions having a first size through the antenna array, receiving a sequence of first reflected waves generated by reflection of the sequence of the first directional beams from an object through the antenna array, transmitting a sequence of second directional beams having a second beam width narrower than the first beam width to scan second regions, which are included in the first regions and have a second size smaller than the first size, through the antenna array based on at least a portion of the received sequence of the first reflected waves, receiving a sequence of second reflected waves generated by reflection of the sequence of the second directional beams from the object through the antenna array, and authenticating the object based on at least a portion of the sequence of the second reflected waves.

Apparatus and method for authenticating object in electronic device

Method comprising: establishing a first link with a first external electronic device, based on the Bluetooth network; receiving information associated with a second link created between the first external electronic device and a second external electronic device, from the first external electronic device; attempting to receive a first data packet transmitted from the second external electronic device by monitoring the second link based at least partially on the information associated with the second link; identifying whether a response message is received from the first external electronic device; transmitting, to the second external electronic device, a response message indicating 'ACK' for the first data packet, when the first data packet is normally received, and when the response message is received from the first external electronic device; and withholding a response message for reception of the first data packet, when the first data packet is not normally received.

Electronic device for transmitting response message in Bluetooth network environment and method therefor

An electronic device including an electronic pen and a method of controlling a communication connection with the electronic pen is provided. The electronic device include a housing, a touch-screen display, a first wireless communication circuit, an extended recess disposed inside the housing, a first wireless charging circuit; an electronic pen including a second wireless communication circuit and a second wireless charging circuit electrically coupled to the first wireless charging circuit, a processor, and a memory. The memory stores instructions causing the processor to detect whether the electronic pen is inserted into the recess, charge the electronic pen through the first wireless charging circuit based on the detection, receive inherent information of the electronic pen through the first wireless communication circuit during or after the charging, and maintain or re-establish a communication connection with the electronic pen based on at least a portion of the received inherent information.

Electronic device including electronic pen and method of controlling communication connection between electronic device and electronic pen

Various example embodiments of the disclosure relate to an electronic device and a wireless communication connection control method thereof. The method may include: receiving and storing at least one first account information stored in at least one server from a first electronic device; broadcasting a beacon signal including an indicator indicating that a WiFi access is granted based at least in part on account information related to the server; receiving at least one second account information from a neighboring electronic device which has received the beacon signal; determining whether the second account information is related to the first account information, based at least in part on data to be exchanged with the server; and upon determining that the second account information is related to the first account information, granting the neighboring electronic device an access to the access point in order to use the Internet, without having to request for credential information from the neighboring electronic device.

Electronic device and method for controlling wireless communication connection thereof

An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a housing including a first plate, a second plate, and a side member which surrounds a space between the first plate and the second plate, a display, an antenna array disposed in the housing or in part of the housing, an image sensor, a wireless communication device electrically coupled to the antenna array, a processor, and a memory. The memory may store instructions, when executed, causing the processor to obtain and receive at least one image using the image sensor, recognize an object in the at least one image, transmit a sequence of directional beams in at least one second direction, using the antenna array, receive a sequence of reflected waves reflected by the object, using the antenna array, and recognize the object, based at least in part on the recognized object and the sequence of the reflected waves.

Apparatus and method for recognizing an object in electronic device

An electronic device is disclosed herein. The electronic device includes a display, at least one wireless communication circuit configured to perform Wi-Fi wireless communication with at least one access point (AP) and/or at least one external electronic device, a processor operatively connected to the display and the wireless communication circuit, and a memory operatively connected to the processor, wherein the memory stores instructions executable by the processor to cause the electronic device to: execute Wi-Fi scanning and receive a first signal from the at least one AP by the wireless communication circuit, receive a second signal from the at least one external electronic device by the wireless communication circuit, the second signal including information related to the at least one AP, determine a wireless communication channel state of the AP based at least partially on the first signal and the second signal, and control the display to display a graphic user interface (GUI) including an object indicating the determined wireless communication channel state.

Electronic device and method for operating access point information by electronic device

An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a wireless communication circuit that supports a Bluetooth network, at least one processor operatively connected to the wireless communication circuit, and a memory operatively connected to the at least one processor. The memory stores instructions that, when executed, cause the at least one processor, through the wireless communication circuit, to generate a first link with a first external electronic device based on the Bluetooth network, generate a second link with a second external electronic device based on the Bluetooth network, transmit information to the second external electronic device through the second link, wherein the information is used by the second external electronic device to monitor the first link, negotiate timing for transmitting a response message with the second external electronic device, receive a data packet from the first external electronic device, and transmit a response message to the first external electronic device in response to the data packet based on the negotiated timing.

Electronic device for transmitting response message in bluetooth network environment and method thereof

An electronic device and method are disclosed herein. The electronic device includes a communication module, a display, a memory and a processor which implements the method. The method includes receiving access point (AP) information from at least one AP through the communication module, generating an AP list including an AP communicatively connectable with the electronic device based on the received AP information, storing the AP list in the memory, identifying a state of the electronic device, determining an arrangement criterion for arranging a display order of Aps included in the AP list based on state information about the electronic device, and controlling the display to arrange the AP list according to the determined arrangement criterion.

Electronic device for providing AP list and method for operating electronic device

According to certain embodiments, an electronic device comprises a first communication circuit configured to support a first communication protocol; a display; and at least one processor operatively connected to the first communication circuit and the display, wherein the at least one processor is configured to: configure a cluster with at least one external electronic based on the first communication protocol device through the first communication circuit, receive through the first communication circuit, from the at least one external electronic device, information identifying at least one short-range communication device connected to the at least one external electronic device via a second communication protocol, and control the display to display at least one indicator of the at least one short-range communication device based on the information received from the at least one external electronic device.

Electronic device supporting proximity communication service and method for obtaining information of short-range communication device using the same

Disclosed is an electronic device includes a wireless communication circuit configured to support Bluetooth communication; at least one processor operatively connected to the wireless communication circuit; and a memory operatively connected to the at least one processor, wherein the memory stores one or more instructions that, when executed, cause the at least one processor to perform a plurality a plurality of operations comprising: receiving first data transmitted from a first external electronic device via a first link between the electronic device and the first external electronic device; when an acknowledgement (ACK) is not received from a second external electronic device, determining that the first external electronic device or the electronic device should retransmit the first data to the second external electronic device based on at least one of status information about the electronic device, status information about the first external electronic device, communication quality of the first link, or communication quality of the second link.

Electronic device for retransmitting data in Bluetooth network environment and method thereof

According to an embodiment disclosed in the specification, an electronic device may include a display, a wireless communication circuit, a processor, and a memory storing a first application program having a first priority associated with use of a resource of the wireless communication circuit and a second application program having a second priority associated with the use of the resource. The memory may store instructions that cause the processor to execute the first application program, to execute the second application program, to compare the first priority with the second priority when the first application program is displayed on the display, and to cause the first application program to have a priority the same as the second application program or to have a priority higher than the second application program, based at least partly on the comparison.

Wireless communication method and electronic device supporting same

Various embodiments of the disclosure relate to an electronic device and a wireless communication connection control method thereof. The method may include: receiving and storing at least one first account information stored in at least one server from a first electronic device via the wireless communication circuit; broadcasting a beacon signal including an indicator indicating that a WiFi access is granted based at least in part on account information related to the server via the wireless communication circuit; receiving at least one second account information from a neighboring electronic device which has received the beacon signal; determining whether the second account information is related to the first account information, based at least in part on data to be exchanged with the server via the wired communication interface; and upon determining that the second account information is related to the first account information, granting the neighboring electronic device an access to the access point in order to use the Internet, without having to request for credential information from the neighboring electronic device. Various other embodiments are also possible.

A method and apparatus allocates an IP address between terminals in a wireless communication network in which terminals directly communicate with each other in a wireless scheme without an AP. The method for allocating an Internet Protocol (IP) address of a wireless terminal capable of performing P2P communication, includes a discovery step of discovering at least one external terminal capable of performing the P2P communication and connecting with the at least one discovered external terminal by the wireless terminal; and a negotiation step of negotiating and determining with the external terminal which external terminals become a group owner and a group client in a P2P group, respectively by the wireless terminal. One of the discovery step and the negotiation step includes transmitting an IP address to be allocated to the group client to the external terminal from the wireless terminal.

Method and apparatus for allocating IP address in wireless communication network

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Jongmu Choi