System and method for controlling home appliances
First Claim
1. A home appliance control system comprising:
- an external Internet network installed outside of a building;
an internal Internet network installed inside of the building and connected to said external Internet network via networking equipment;
a plurality of home appliances installed in the building;
a computing device for setting respective private Internet protocol (IP) addresses of said home appliances such that said appliances are connected to said internal Internet network on the basis of the set private IP addresses; and
a plurality of communication modules installed respectively in said home appliances, each of said communication modules storing the private IP address of a corresponding one of said home appliances, set by said computing device, and processing data transmitted and received between said internal Internet network and said corresponding home appliance appropriately to standards of said internal Internet network and said corresponding home appliance.
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Abstract
A system and method for controlling a plurality of home appliances installed in a building. A computing device is provided to set respective private IP addresses of the home appliances to connect the appliances to an internal Internet network equipped with a LAN line installed previously in the building, and communication modules are provided to store the set private IP addresses and convert/process information transmitted and received between the home appliances and the internet network appropriately to standards of the appliances and Internet network. An integrated network control process can be performed with respect to the home appliances with no use of high-price LAN cards or CPUs by simply installing the communication modules in the existing appliance constructions. Further, an integrated home appliance/network control system can be constructed at a reduced cost to simply control the plurality of home appliances.
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11 Claims
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1. A home appliance control system comprising:
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an external Internet network installed outside of a building;
an internal Internet network installed inside of the building and connected to said external Internet network via networking equipment;
a plurality of home appliances installed in the building;
a computing device for setting respective private Internet protocol (IP) addresses of said home appliances such that said appliances are connected to said internal Internet network on the basis of the set private IP addresses; and
a plurality of communication modules installed respectively in said home appliances, each of said communication modules storing the private IP address of a corresponding one of said home appliances, set by said computing device, and processing data transmitted and received between said internal Internet network and said corresponding home appliance appropriately to standards of said internal Internet network and said corresponding home appliance. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
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7. A method for controlling home appliances, comprising the steps of:
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a) installing a plurality of communication modules in the home appliances, respectively, each of said communication modules storing a set private IP address of a corresponding one of said home appliances and processing data transmitted and received between an internal Internet network of a building in which said home appliances are installed and said corresponding home appliance appropriately to standards of said internal Internet network and said corresponding home appliance;
b) setting the private IP addresses of said home appliances, respectively; and
c) controlling each of said home appliances with the set private IP addresses through a user interface appropriate to the appliance control. - View Dependent Claims (8, 9, 10, 11)
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