Home gateway system having display controller

• US 20030231641A1
• Filed: 02/26/2003
• Published: 12/18/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 03/07/2002
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Ryoo, Jae-Kwan
• Application Number:
  US10/373,655
• Publication Number:
  US 20030231641A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 370/401
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/2803 Home automation networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/2834 Switching of information between an external network and a home network access arrangements H04L12/2856
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/66 Arrangements for connecting between networks having differing types of switching systems, e.g. gateways
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 2012/2845 Telephone line
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 49/351 for local area network [LAN], e.g. Ethernet switches

Abstract

A home gateway system having a display device therein. The home gateway system is connected through plural high-speed home buses of plural lines to plural home network devices, for converting data and thus enabling data communication among an external communication network and the plural home network devices. The home gateway system includes a memory, and a control unit for causing data processed at a display device of a home network device to be respectively categorized into user classifications and stored in the memory, and causing the stored data to be displayed at a display device of another home network device that is intended by a user. As a result, the user is enabled to use data processed at a display device of one home network device at a display device of another home network device of the same home network.

Claims

1. A home gateway system connected through plural high-speed home buses of plural lines to plural home network devices, for converting data and thus enabling data communication among an external communication network and the plural home network devices, the home gateway system comprising:

a memory; and

a control unit for causing data processed at a display device of a home network device to be respectively categorized into user classifications and stored in the memory, and causing the stored data to be displayed at a display device of another home network device that is intended by a user.

2. The home gateway system of claim 1, further comprising a monitor device for viewing the data stored in the memory, and inputting data to the memory.

3. The home gateway system of claim 1, further comprising:

a signal detection unit for determining whether or not the home network devices are connected to the home buses, and outputting a resultant detection signal; and

a display control unit for causing the data stored in the memory to be displayed at a display device of a home network device that is determined to be connected to the home buses according to the detection signal output from the signal detection unit.

4. A display control method of a home gateway system connected through plural high-speed home buses of plural lines to plural home network devices, for converting data and thus enabling data communication among an external communication network and the plural home network devices, the display control method comprising the steps of:

storing data that is processed through a display device of a home network device;

determining whether there is a data display request by a user from another home network device; and

if determining that there is the data display request made by the user, displaying the stored data at a display device of a home network device that is intended by the user.

5. The display control method of claim 4, further comprising the steps of:

determining whether or not the home network devices are connected to the home buses; and

if determining the home network devices to be connected to the home buses, causing the stored data to be displayed at the display devices of the home network devices.