Home network connection apparatus and control method thereof
First Claim
1. A home network connecting apparatus for communicating with an Internet comprising:
- an appliance having a Web server proxy agent for fetching information on an appliance connected to a home network to generate a home page, providing an HTML film format information on the appliance connected to the home network to a remote area, transmitting control information of the appliance connected to the home network received from the remote area to a pertinent appliance and transmitting an operation result of the pertinent appliance to the remote area; and
an appliance having a web server FCM (Functional Component Module) operated according to a control command received from the appliance having the Web server proxy agent, wherein the two appliances are connected with a digital network.
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Abstract
A home network connecting apparatus in which a plurality of IEEE 1394 interface standard based home appliances are connected to access the Internet, includes: an appliance having a Web server proxy agent for fetching information on an appliance connected to a home network to generate a home page, providing an HTML film format information on the appliance connected to the home network to a remote area, transmitting control information of the appliance connected to the home network received from the remote area to a pertinent appliance; and transmitting an operation result of the pertinent appliance to the remote area; and an appliance having a web server FCM (Functional Component Module) operated according to a control command received from the appliance having the Web server proxy agent, wherein the two appliances are connected with a HAVi digital network. A model for the Web server FCM and the Web server proxy agent is proposed and connected to the HAVi home network by using the Internet, a request from the remote area through the Internet can be processed in the HAVi home network. In addition, since the home appliances connected to the HAVi home network share the resources of Web-accessible appliances (i.e., Internet Application Protocol, TCP, IP or Hardware, etc.), so that other appliances can process the request signal from the Internet only with an HTML file as provided.
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13 Claims
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1. A home network connecting apparatus for communicating with an Internet comprising:
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an appliance having a Web server proxy agent for fetching information on an appliance connected to a home network to generate a home page, providing an HTML film format information on the appliance connected to the home network to a remote area, transmitting control information of the appliance connected to the home network received from the remote area to a pertinent appliance and transmitting an operation result of the pertinent appliance to the remote area; and
an appliance having a web server FCM (Functional Component Module) operated according to a control command received from the appliance having the Web server proxy agent, wherein the two appliances are connected with a digital network. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)
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11. A method for controlling a home network connecting apparatus comprising:
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a step in which when an appliance having a Web server FCM is turned on, an SEID is assigned and registered as a Web server FCM in a software element (SE) of a home network;
a step in which when the Web server FCM comes in, the appliance having a Web proxy server agent fetches an image file from the connected appliance and construct a home page of the Web servers connected to the home network;
a step in which when a user from a remote area accesses the home page of the home network through the Internet and selects an icon having LINK information, an appliance having a Web proxy server agent fetches control information from the selected appliance and provides it to the remote area user; and
a step in which when the remote area user selects one of the control information of the selected appliance, the information is transmitted to the appliance having the Web server FCM to perform a corresponding operation. - View Dependent Claims (12, 13)
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