Method for setting product address in home network system

• US 20040119606A1
• Filed: 09/10/2003
• Published: 06/24/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 01/10/2002
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: Woong Kim, Dae, Choi, Hwan Jong, Lee, Koon Seok, Baek, Seung Myun, Koo, Ja In, Lim, Jeong Hyun, Kang, Sung Hwan, Ha, Sam Chul
• Granted Patent: US 7,075,453 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 340/825.52
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/2803 Home automation networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/282 based on user interaction within the home receiver circuitry for displaying additional information being controlled by a remote control apparatus H04N21/42204
• 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 61/5046 Resolving address allocation conflicts; Testing of addresses testing when self-assigning an address H04L61/5092
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 61/5061 Pools of addresses
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 61/5092 by self-assignment, e.g. picking addresses at random and testing if they are already in use

Abstract

A method for setting a product address in a home network system is disclosed. The method includes a step for requesting a temporary address in which a network controller designates redundant addresses with a predetermined range to each product and requests an arbitrary address among the redundant address as a temporary address; a step for designating a temporary address in which each product designates an arbitrary address among the redundant addresses as a temporary address and informs to a network controller; and a step for confirming an address in which the network controller sequentially sets one of the redundant addresses for each address not doubled among informed temporary addresses from each product.

Claims

1. A method for setting a product address in a home network system having a plurality of products and a network controller for controlling and managing the plurality of products, comprising:

a temporary address requesting step of the network controller assigning a range of allowable addresses to each of the products, and requesting the product to set one of the allowable addresses as a temporary address of the product;

a temporary address setting step of the product setting, and informing one of the allowable address as the temporary address of the product; and

an address fixing step of the network controller assigning one of the allowable address to each of non-duplicated addresses out of the temporary addresses informed from the products.

2. A method as claimed in claim 1, wherein the temporary address is one of the allowable address designated randomly in the temporary address setting step.

3. A method as claimed in claim 1, wherein duplicated addresses out of the temporary addresses in the address fixing step are reset to initial addresses of the products, and the temporary address requesting step, the temporary address setting step, and the address fixing step are carried out again.