Human readable and writable addressing method in a home network protocol

• US 20050281266A1
• Filed: 12/30/2004
• Published: 12/22/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 06/22/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Korea Electronics Technology Institute (Government of South Korea)
• Original Assignee: Korea Electronics Technology Institute (Government of South Korea)
• Inventors: Jung, Kwangmo, Choi, Woong Chul, Choi, Kwangsoon
• Application Number:
  US11/024,782
• Publication Number:
  US 20050281266A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 370/392
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 61/30 Managing network names, e.g. use of aliases or nicknames name-to-address mapping H04L61/45
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 61/4511 using domain name system [DNS]

Abstract

A human readable and writable addressing method in a home network is disclosed. A disclosed method comprises inputting a URL type, inputting the address of a gateway server, and inputting a device indicator.

Claims

1. A human readable and writable addressing method in a home network comprising the steps of:

inputting a URL type;

inputting the address of a gateway server; and

inputting a device indicator;

2. A method as defined by claim 1, wherein the URL type is “

hnp”

or “

http”

.

3. A method as defined by claim 1, wherein the device indicator comprises a domain address, a cluster address, a category address and a device address.

4. A method as defined by claim 3, wherein the domain address represents the location of the device.

5. A method as defined by claim 3, wherein the cluster address distinguishes the network types.

6. A method as defined by claim 3, wherein the category address classifies the devices on the basis of their usage.

7. A method as defined by claim 3, wherein the device address represents a unique device name.