METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR REGISTERING A DEVICE IN ACCESS POINT

摘要

Provided is a method of registering an unregistered device in an access point (AP) by using a registered device registered in the AP, the method including: transmitting a control signal for controlling the registered device to the registered device so as to transmit a mode change request, which requests the AP to change a mode to an authentication approval mode approving an authentication operation with the unregistered device, to the AP; transmitting a mode confirm request, which confirms whether an operation mode of the AP is the authentication approval mode, to the AP; receiving a mode confirm response as a response to the mode confirm request from the AP that receives the mode change request; and selectively performing an authentication operation with the AP, based on the received mode confirm response.