Device, system and method of generating identification information of audio/video devices existing on audio/video network

• US 20060259646A1
• Filed: 05/05/2006
• Published: 11/16/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 05/10/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Lee, Sang-ho, Park, In-ho
• Application Number:
  US11/418,197
• Publication Number:
  US 20060259646A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 710/3
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/2805 Home Audio Video Interoperability [HAVI] networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/281 indicating a format for calling an appliance service function in a home automation network for remote control or remote monitoring of applications H04L67/025
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 2012/2849 Audio/video appliances
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 61/4541 Directories for service discovery
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 61/5038 for local use, e.g. in LAN or USB networks, or in a controller area network [CAN]

Abstract

A master device to generate identification information of audio/video (A/V) devices existing on an A/V network. The master device includes an information requester to send a request for device information and first identification information of each of the existing slave devices, a determiner to check the device information transmitted in response to the request and to determine whether any existing devices have the same device information, a second identification information generator to generate second identification information of each of the devices that are found to have the same device information, and an information storage to store the transmitted device information, the first identification information and the generated second identification information.

Claims

1. A master device to generate identification information of audio/video (A/V) devices existing on an A/V network, the master device comprising:

an information requester to send a request for device information and first identification information of each of the existing slave devices;

a determiner to check the device information transmitted in response to the request and to determine whether any existing devices have the same device information;

a second identification information generator to generate second identification information of each of the devices that are found to have the same device information; and

an information storage to store the transmitted device information, the first identification information and the generated second identification information.

2. The master device of claim 1, further comprising a user interface generator to generate user interfaces of the respective devices based on the device information and second identification information stored in the information storage.

3. The master device of claim 1, wherein, if there are existing devices having the same device information, the determiner checks the first identification information and determines whether there are existing devices having the same device information, and, if there are existing devices having the same device information but different first identification information features, the second identification information generator generates second identification information of the devices having the same device information but different first identification information features.

4. A system of generating identification information of audio/video (A/V) devices existing on an A/V network, the system comprising:

a slave device, including stored device information and first identification information, to operate in response to a control signal at the A/V network; and

a master device to send a request for the device information and the first identification information to the slave device, to determine whether there are other slave devices having the same device information as the device information sent in response to the request, to generate second identification information if there are other slaves devices having the same device information, so that the respective slave devices having the same device information can be discriminated from one another.

5. The system of claim 4, wherein the master device further comprises:

an information requester to send a request for device information and first identification information of each of the slave devices;

a determiner to check the device information transmitted in response to the request and to determine whether there are devices having the same device information;

a second identification information generator to generate second identification information of any devices that are found to have the same device information; and

an information storage to store the transmitted device information, the first identification information and the generated second identification information.

6. The system of claim 5, wherein the master device delivers the generated user interfaces to users through a display device.

7. A method of generating identification information of audio/video (A/V) devices existing on an A/V network, the method comprising:

sending a request for device information and first identification information of each of the slave devices a;

checking the device information transmitted in response to the request and determining whether there are existing devices having the same device information;

if there are existing devices having the same device information, generating second identification information of each of the devices having the same device information; and

generating user interfaces to prompt a user to select a predetermined slave device and displaying the generated user interfaces.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein the generating of the second identification information comprises:

checking the transmitted first identification information and determining whether the devices are the same; and

if the devices are not the same, generating the second identification information.

9. The method of claim 7, wherein each of the user interfaces displays the second identification information.

10. A computer readable medium to store a program written in HTML (Hyper-text Markup Language) 4.0 that is capable of executing the method of claim 7.

11. A method of generating identification information of existing audio/video (A/V) devices existing on an A/V network, comprising:

requesting device information and first identification information of the existing slave devices;

storing the device information and the first identification information;

requesting a determination of whether any existing slave devices have the same device information;

if existing slave devices are found to have the same device information, checking the stored first identification information of the slave devices having the same device information;

determining whether any of the slave devices having the same device information have different first identification information;

if the existing slave devices having the same device information are found to have different first identification information, requesting a generation of second identification information and user interfaces of each of the existing slave devices based on the device information and the second identification information; and

displaying the user interfaces.

12. The method according to claim 11, wherein the device information comprises a manufacturer name, a model number, and a descriptive term, and the first identification information comprises a unique identification number of each device.

13. The method according to claim 12, wherein the storing comprised storing the device information in a tabulated format.

14. The method according to claim 12, further comprising generating an original name of each slave device using the device information of the slave devices.

15. The method according to claim 11, wherein, if slave devices are found to have different device information, ending the generating method.

16. The method according to claim 11, wherein the requesting the generation of second identification information comprises:

checking an original name of the existing slave devices having the same device information;

storing the original name as the second identification information.

17. A computer readable medium to store a program that is capable of executing the method of claim 11.

18. A master device to generate identification information of audio/video (A/V) slave devices existing on an A/V network, the master device comprising:

an information requester to request device and first identification information of each of the existing slave devices;

a determiner to determine whether any existing devices have the same device and first identification information; and

a second identification information generator to generate second identification information based of each of the devices that are found to have the same device and first identification information, the second identification information being based on the device and the first identification information.

19. A system of generating identification information of audio/video (A/V) devices existing on an A/V network, the system comprising:

a slave device, including stored device information and first identification information, to operate in response to a predetermined to a control signal; and

a master device to send a request for the device information and the first identification information to the slave device, to determine whether there are other slave devices having the same device information and first identification information as the device information and first identification information of the slave device, to generate second identification information of the slave device, the second identification information being based on the device information and the first identification information of the slave device, if there are other slaves devices having the same device information and first identification information.

20. The system according to claim 19, further comprising a display on which the second identification information is displayed.