Apparatus and method for setting communication packet

• US 20040186879A1
• Filed: 12/23/2003
• Published: 09/23/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 06/26/2001
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: Choi, Hwan Jong, Kim, Dae Woong, Lee, Koon Seok, Baek, Seung Myun, Koo, Ja In, Lim, Jeong Hyun, Kang, Sung Hwan, Ha, Sam Chul
• Application Number:
  US10/481,812
• Publication Number:
  US 20040186879A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/200
• 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 69/08 Protocols for interworking; Protocol conversion
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 9/40 Network security protocols

Abstract

An apparatus and method for setting communication packet for a remote control between apparatuses is disclosed, which includes a communication port connected to an external apparatus by a communication bus, a communication circuit for converting signals transmitted/received by the communication port to signals appropriate for the communication bus, a memory for storing data information for communicating, and a microcomputer for controlling the communication circuit and the memory.

Claims

1. An apparatus for setting a communication packet comprising:

a communication port being connected to an external apparatus by a communication bus;

a communication circuit for converting signals transmitted or received through the communication port to signals appropriate for the communication bus;

a memory for storing packet data information required for communicating; and

a microcomputer for controlling the communication port, the communication circuit and the memory.

2. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the packet data include a preamble, a receiver code, a transmitter code, a controlling code, and an error checking area.

3. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the memory is a nonvolatile memory such as an EEPROM or a flash memory.

4. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the communication bus is RS-232C-based one.

5. A method for setting a communication packet, comprising steps of:

producing a communication packet for each apparatus using an apparatus having a keyboard and a display device;

transmitting the produced communication packet to a corresponding apparatus and storing it in a memory;

checking an operation status of the apparatus when it is operated;

determining whether a communication condition being stored in the memory accords with the operation status or the checked apparatus by comparing them with each other; and

repeating the processes of operating, checking and comparing if the communication condition does not accord with the operation status of the checked apparatus but performing a communication with the corresponding apparatus by reading the accordant communication packet data from the memory if the communication condition accords with the operation status of the checked apparatus.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the step of producing the communication packet for each of the apparatuses includes steps of:

inputting a selecting apparatus, a communication object, a communication condition, and controlling data on a window for selecting the communication packet; and

converting the letter information input in the previous step to codes to produce a code value and a packet.

7. The method of claim 5, wherein the communication packet being stored in the memory includes the communication condition and the communication packet data required for performing the communication.