Wireless Tag Authentication for Secure Network Configuration
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing network configuration technologies for electronic devices, such as projectors, allow unauthorized individuals to perform network configurations, compromising security and reliability.
Innovation Solution
Incorporating a wireless communication tag with stored certification information that matches user-inputted certification, ensuring only authorized personnel can perform network configurations by transmitting configuration data to the tag for storage.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If network configuration is performed using wireless communication without certification verification, then ease of operation is improved, but security and reliability deteriorate due to unauthorized access
Solution Approach 1:
The patent applies preliminary action by storing certification information in the wireless communication tag before the actual network configuration process. This pre-prepared certification data enables automatic verification during configuration, ensuring security is established in advance rather than added as a separate step, thus maintaining ease of operation while preventing unauthorized access.
2Reliability
If certification verification is implemented using wireless communication tags, then security and reliability are improved, but device complexity increases due to additional components and processes
Solution Approach 1:
The wireless communication tag performs self-service by automatically providing certification information when approached by a setting device. The tag independently verifies its own authentication credentials and communicates them wirelessly, eliminating the need for manual certification input or complex verification interfaces. This self-contained approach adds minimal complexity while ensuring reliable security verification.
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AI summary
A setting device for performing a network configuration of an electronic apparatus is provided with a touch panel, a communication device, and a processing device described below. To the touch panel, there is input information in accordance with an operation by a user. The communication device communicates with a wireless communication tag which stores certification information to be used for certification when performing a network configuration of the electronic apparatus, and which is provided to the electronic apparatus. The processing device obtains certification information received by the communication device to judge whether or not the certification information obtained and certification information input to the touch panel match each other, and transmits configuration information input to the touch panel as information representing the network configuration to the wireless communication tag to make the wireless communication tag store the configuration information when it is judged that the both parties match each other.