Home networking communication system and method for communicating using the same

• US 20040158620A1
• Filed: 12/09/2003
• Published: 08/12/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 06/09/2001
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: Koo, Ja ln, Baek, Seung, Choi, Hwan Jong, Kim, Dae Woong, Lee, Koon Seok, Lim, Jeong Hyun, Kang, Sung Hwan, Ha, Sam Chul
• Application Number:
  US10/480,107
• Publication Number:
  US 20040158620A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/219
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 15/02 electric
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/2803 Home automation networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/2818 from a device located outside both the home and the home network access arrangements H04L12/2856; for remote control or remote monitoring of applications H04L67/025; arrangements for transmitting signals characterised by the use of a wireless eletrical link G08C17/00; telephonic communication systems adapted for combination with remote control systems H04M11/007
• 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 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/025 for remote control or remote monitoring of applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/12 specially adapted for proprietary or special-purpose networking environments, e.g. medical networks, sensor networks, networks in vehicles or remote metering networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/16 Implementation or adaptation of Internet protocol [IP], of transmission control protocol [TCP] or of user datagram protocol [UDP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/329 in the application layer [OSI layer 7]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 9/40 Network security protocols

Abstract

A home networking communication system and method for communicating using the same is disclosed, which includes a main apparatus for controlling a plurality of networked peripheral apparatuses in the house by inputting a control signal from outside, and for outputting state information of the controlled peripheral apparatuses, an external apparatus for inputting control signals for controlling the plurality of peripheral apparatuses from a long distance, and web server for transmitting the control signal input from the external apparatus to the main apparatus by Internet, and for receiving the state information of the peripheral apparatuses according to the transmitted control signal, storing, monitoring the same and providing the same to the external apparatus.

Claims

1. A home networking communication system using Internet, comprising:

a main apparatus for controlling a plurality of networked peripheral apparatuses in the house by inputting a control signal from outside, and for outputting state information of the controlled peripheral apparatuses;

an external apparatus for inputting control signals for controlling the plurality of peripheral apparatuses from a long distance; and

a web server for transmitting the control signal input from the external apparatus to the main apparatus by Internet, and for receiving the state information of the peripheral apparatuses according to the transmitted control signal, storing, monitoring the same and providing the same to the external apparatus.

2. The system according to claim 1, wherein the web server further comprises:

a monitoring use database (DB) for storing state information of peripheral apparatuses that is inputted from the main apparatus and web page information for use of monitoring based on the state information; and

a controlling use database (DB) for storing control signals of peripheral apparatuses that are inputted by an external apparatus.

3. A home networking communication method using Internet, comprising the steps of:

networking a plurality of peripheral apparatuses and installing a main apparatus for controlling the plural peripheral apparatuses;

transferring present state information of the controlled peripheral apparatuses to the main apparatus at regular intervals;

transmitting, at the main apparatus, the state information of each peripheral apparatus to a web server corresponding to its own IP address through Internet at regular intervals;

generating a monitoring use file and further a web page for each house based on the transferred information, and then providing the web page to an external apparatus;

figuring out present state of a peripheral apparatus through the external apparatus from a long distance, and transmitting a controlling use file necessary for controlling the peripheral apparatus to the web server;

transmitting the controlling use file having been transmitted to the web server to the main apparatus that is accessed to the web server at regular intervals; and

executing an appropriate operation by transferring the transmitted file to the peripheral apparatus.

4. The method according to claim 3, wherein a new apparatus can be added to or the existing apparatus can be deleted from the plurality of networked peripheral apparatuses.

5. The method according to claim 3, further comprising the step of:

setting cycle for the main apparatus to connect to the web server short if the external apparatus and the web server are connected to each other as the main apparatus connects to the web server.