Information processing method and electronic device

• US 10,027,502 B2
• Filed: 09/28/2015
• Issued: 07/17/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 06/30/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Lenovo (Beijing) Limited (Lenovo Group Ltd.), Lenovo Company Limited (Lenovo Group Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Lenovo (Beijing) Limited (Lenovo Group Ltd.), Lenovo Company Limited (Lenovo Group Ltd.)
• Inventors: Gao, Changlei
• Primary Examiner(s): Meky, Moustafa M
• Assistant Examiner(s): HURST, ANDREA L
• Application Number:
  US14/867,572
• Publication Number:
  US 20170005822A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,023 Days
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/2809 indicating that an appliance service is present in a home automation network monitoring functionality H04L43/0817; discovery or management thereof, e.g. service location protocol [SLP] or web services, H04L67/51
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/2814 Exchanging control software or macros for controlling appliance services in a home automation network arrangements for maintenance or administration involving configuration of the network and network elements H04L41/08
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/2825 Reporting to a device located outside the home and the home network access arrangements H04L12/2856; for remote control or remote monitoring of applications H04L67/025; telephonic communication systems adapted for combination with telemetering systems H04M11/002
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/2829 involving user profiles according to which the execution of a home appliance functionality is automatically triggered

Abstract

An information processing method and an electronic device are described where the method includes receiving and storing a first set of rule information, the first set of rule information including one piece or more pieces of first rule information, each piece of first rule information indicating a specific rule that a first control device triggers a second sub-device to perform a predetermined operation in response to detection of a predetermined condition of a first sub-device; extracting second rule information from each piece of first rule information to generate a second set of rule information; and transmitting the second set of rule information to the second control device.

Claims

1. A method for controlling devices comprising:

receiving and storing a first set of rule information, the first set of rule information including one piece or more pieces of first rule information, each piece of first rule information indicating a specific rule that a first control device triggers a second device to perform a predetermined operation in response to detection of a predetermined condition of a first device;

extracting second rule information from each piece of first rule information to generate a second set of rule information, each piece of second rule information indicating an abstract rule that a second control device triggers a second type of devices having the same one or more attributes as the second device to perform a predetermined operation in response to detection of a predetermined condition of a first type of devices having the same one or more attributes as the first device, wherein the one or more attributes comprise function attributes;

transmitting the second set of rule information to the second control device; and

controlling, by the second control device, at least one of the second type of devices to perform the predetermined operation based on the second set of rule information.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the second control device can generate a third set of rule information according to the second set of rule information, the third set of rule information indicating a specific rule that the first control device triggers a fourth device having the same one or more attributes as the second device to perform a predetermined operation in response to detection of a predetermined condition of a third device having the same one or more attributes as the first device.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein when the third device is same as the first device and the fourth device is same as the second device, the second control device can generate the third set of rule information according to the second set of rule information;

or

when the third device has the same one or more attributes as the second device and the fourth device has the same one or more attributes as the second device, the second control device can generate the third set of rule information according to the second set of rule information;

or

when a plurality of third devices have the same one or more attributes as the first device and a plurality of fourth devices have the same one or more attributes as the second device, as for one selected third device and one selected fourth device, the second control device can generate the third set of rule information according to the second set of rule information.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein extracting second rule information from each piece of first rule information to generate the second set of rule information further comprises:

acquiring first attribute information of the first device and second attribute information of the second device according to each piece of first rule information;

associating the first attribute information and the second attribute information to generate second rule information; and

merging all generated second rule information to generate the second set of rule information.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the first set of rule information is associated with first user identification when being created, and the second set of rule information is associated with the same first user identification, and transmitting the second set of rule information to the second control device further comprises, in response to a request from the second control device, transmitting the second set of rule information to the second control device, the request being sent by the second control device when acquiring the first user identification.

6. The method as claimed in claim 1, further comprising:

determining whether a predetermined condition is satisfied, before transmitting the second set of rule information to the second control device;

if the predetermined condition is satisfied, transmitting the second set of rule information to the second control device.

7. The method as claimed in claim 6, wherein the first set of rule information has rule attribute information, and the second control device has control attribute information, and determining whether a predetermined condition is satisfied comprises when the control attribute information of the second control device matches the rule attribute information of the first set of rule information, determining that the predetermined condition is satisfied.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein transmitting the second set of rule information to the second control device further comprises transmitting a portion of or all the first rule information in the first set of rule information that the rule attribute information matches the control attribute information of the second control device to the second control device.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the first set of rule information is associated with first user identification when being created, and the second set of rule information is associated with the same first user identification, and transmitting the second set of rule information to the second control device further comprises in response to a request from the second control device, transmitting the second set of rule information to the second control device, the request being sent by the second control device when obtaining second user identification, the first set of rule information being associated with the second user identification after being created according to a predetermined operation.

10. An electronic device, comprising:

a receiver configured to receive a first set of rule information, the first set of rule information including one piece or more pieces of first rule information, each piece of first rule information indicating a specific rule that a first control device triggers a second device to perform a predetermined operation in response to detection of a predetermined condition of a first device;

a storage configured to store the received first set of rule information;

a processer configured to extract second rule information from each piece of first rule information to generate a second set of rule information, each piece of second rule information indicating an abstract rule that a second control device triggers a second type of devices having the same one or more attributes as the second device to perform a predetermined operation in response to detection of a predetermined condition of a first type of devices having the same one or more attributes as the first device, wherein the one or more attributes comprise function attributes;

a transmitter configured to transmit the second set of rule information to the second control device, wherein the second control device controls at least one of the second type of devices to perform the predetermined operation based on the second set of rule information.

11. The electronic device of claim 10, wherein the second control device can generate a third set of rule information according to the second set of rule information, the third set of rule information indicating a specific rule that a first control device triggers a fourth device having the same one or more attributes as the second device to perform a predetermined operation in response to detection of a predetermined condition of a third device having the same one or more attributes as the first device.

12. The electronic device of claim 11, wherein

when the third device is same as the first device and the fourth device is same as the second device, the second control device can generate the third set of rule information according to the second set of rule information;

or

when the third device has the same one or more attributes as the second device and the fourth device has the same one or more attributes as the second device, the second control device can generate the third set of rule information according to the second set of rule information;

or

when a plurality of third devices have the same one or more attributes as the first device and a plurality of fourth devices have the same one or more attributes as the second device, as for one selected third device and one selected fourth device, the second control device can generate the third set of rule information according to the second set of rule information.

13. The electronic device of claim 10, wherein the processer is further configured to:

acquire first attribute information of the first device and second attribute information of the second device according to each piece of first rule information associate the first attribute information and the second attribute information to generate second rule information; and

merge all generated second rule information to generate the second set of rule information.

15. The electronic device as claimed in claim 10, further comprising a determining unit configured to determine whether a predetermined condition is satisfied, before transmitting the second set of rule information to the second control device and if the predetermined condition is satisfied, the transmitter transmits the second set of rule information to the second control device.

16. The electronic device of claim 15, wherein the first set of rule information has rule attribute information, and the second control device has control attribute information, and the determining unit is further configured to, when the control attribute information of the second control device matches the rule attribute information of the first set of rule information, determine that the predetermined condition is satisfied.

17. The electronic device of claim 16, wherein the transmitter is further configured to transmit a portion of or all the first rule information in the first set of rule information that the rule attribute information matches the control attribute information of the second control device to the second control device.

18. The electronic device as claimed in claim 10, wherein the first set of rule information is associated with first user identification when being created, and the second set of rule information is associated with the same first user identification, and the transmitter is further configured to, in response to a request from the second control device, transmit the second set of rule information to the second control device, the request being sent by the second control device when obtaining second user identification, the first set of rule information being associated with the second user identification after being created according to a predetermined operation.

14. The electronic device of 10, wherein the first set of rule information is associated with first user identification when being created, and the second set of rule information is associated with the same first user identification, and the transmitter is further configured to, in response to a request from the second control device, transmit the second set of rule information to the second control device, the request being sent by the second control device when acquiring the first user identification.