Consumer equipment remote operation system and operating method for the same
US8103744B2 · kind B2 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Aug 15, 2006 |
| Grant date | Jan 24, 2012 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | May 27, 2030 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
- CPC primaryH04L61/5014
- WIPO fieldDigital communication
- WIPO sectorElectrical engineering
Abstract
By simply connecting consumer equipments physically to a home network, configurations are set automatically for the consumer equipment, and the consumer equipment is enabled to be remote operated easily via a home gateway that is not necessarily fixed in address.A home gateway 51 includes: a home management table 212a that manages equipment information of consumer equipment connected to the home network; an equipment detector 206 that cyclically transmits a detection request along the home network, detects consumer equipment, and acquires the equipment information of the detected consumer equipment; an equipment management unit 211 that updatingly registers the equipment information of the detected consumer equipment into the above-described home management table 212a; a DHCP server function 210a that sets network configurations for newly detected consumer equipment; and an equipment information registration unit that updatingly registers the equipment information in the home management table cyclically into a portal server 4.
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