Control System For Networked Home Electrical Appliances
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1. A control system for networked home electrical appliances comprising:
- an external server to receive through a global network a CGI program execution instruction from an optional terminal, execute a CGI program registered in advance, and transmit a result of the execution to the accessed terminal;
a home electrical appliance having a communication function and connected to a home network;
a home server connected to the home network, to control each home electrical appliance connected to the home network; and
an operation terminal connected to the home network and having a browser function, andthe external server is configured to have a function of returning a screen or a control code corresponding to a request from the operation terminal, andthe home server is configured to have a function of receiving a request from the external server, a function of transmitting a request to the external server, a function of relaying a request from the operation terminal to the external server behind the scenes, a communication function of controlling each home electrical appliance, and a function of receiving a notification from each home electrical appliance.
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Abstract
A network household electric control system has a household electric appliance controlling ASP server installed as an external server (300) on the Internet. When household electric appliances (150) are to be controlled from an operation terminal (130) in the house of a customer through a home server (120), the GUI is transparently transmitted from an external server to the operation terminal and is displayed with the browser so that the household electric appliances are monitored and controlled through that GUI.
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1. A control system for networked home electrical appliances comprising:
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an external server to receive through a global network a CGI program execution instruction from an optional terminal, execute a CGI program registered in advance, and transmit a result of the execution to the accessed terminal; a home electrical appliance having a communication function and connected to a home network; a home server connected to the home network, to control each home electrical appliance connected to the home network; and an operation terminal connected to the home network and having a browser function, and the external server is configured to have a function of returning a screen or a control code corresponding to a request from the operation terminal, and the home server is configured to have a function of receiving a request from the external server, a function of transmitting a request to the external server, a function of relaying a request from the operation terminal to the external server behind the scenes, a communication function of controlling each home electrical appliance, and a function of receiving a notification from each home electrical appliance. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)
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