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Device, system and method for providing web browser access and control of devices on customer premise gateways

  • US 20010034754A1
  • Filed: 01/12/2001
  • Published: 10/25/2001
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/17/2000
  • Status: Abandoned Application
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1. A customer premises gateway (CPG) for providing access to, and control of, one or more smart devices located at a customer premise, the smart devices coupled to the CPG through one or more physical interfaces, the CPG comprising:

  • one or more hardware drivers, each hardware driver having a corresponding software driver, Transport protocol, and corresponding to a particular physical interface;

    memory for storing Internetworking protocols and application programming interfaces (APIs) and API specification information corresponding to the smart devices; and

    one or more processors in communication with each other and the hardware drivers, the processors programmed for configuring the hardware drivers using the software drivers for transmitting and receiving messages over the corresponding physical interface using the Transport protocol associated with each software driver, publishing a standard interface between the APIs, the Internetworking protocols, the Transport protocols, and the software drivers, and in response to a message for a particular smart device, selecting an API corresponding to the particular smart device, querying the particular smart device and retrieving API specification information from the particular smart device in accordance with the selected API, and generating a smart device page for the particular smart device for displaying accessible or controllable parameters of the particular smart device;

    wherein a Markup-Language-type Web browser or a local computer is couplable to the CPG for viewing the smart device pages and controlling and monitoring the smart devices.

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