SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PLUG AND PLAY BETWEEN HOST AND CLIENT

• US 20090055536A1
• Filed: 10/13/2005
• Published: 02/26/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 10/13/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Aloft Media, LLC (Oso IP, LLC), Boadin Technology LLC (Oso IP, LLC), Grolleger LLC (Oso IP, LLC)
• Original Assignee: Boadin Technology LLC (Oso IP, LLC)
• Inventors: Jo, Bae Su
• Granted Patent: US 8,078,732 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/227
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/4411 Configuring for operating with peripheral devices; Loading of device drivers
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/4413 Plug-and-play [PnP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/34 involving the movement of software or configuration parameters network booting or remote initial program loading [RIPL] G06F9/4416

Abstract

A host client plug-and-play system and method capable of controlling a client at the same time that the client is connected to a host through wired/wireless communication means are provided. The host client plug-and-play method in a host client communication system where at least one client is controlled by at least one host, includes: (a) a step of performing device connection between the client and the host; (b) a step of performing communication compatible operation step between the client and the host; (c) a step where the host receives a device driver and control software for allowing the host to identify and control the client; (d) a step where the host installs the received device driver and control software; (e) a step of performing device identification and communication compatible operation between the host and the client by using the device deriver installed in the host; and (f) a step where the host controls the client by using the control software installed in the host.

Claims

1. A host client plug-and-play system in a host client communication system where at least one client is controlled by at least one host, comprising:

a host which automatically installs a device driver and control software for identifying and controlling a client to control the client when the client is connected to the host through communication means; and

a client which is connected to the host through the communication means and controlled with the control software installed in the host.

2. The host client plug-and-play system according to claim 1, further comprising a device server which is connected to the host through a wired/wireless network and provides to the host the device driver and control software for allowing the host to identify and control the client.

3. The host client plug-and-play system according to claim 1, further comprising a service server which is connected to the host through a wired/wireless network and provides client based service software and service to the host.

4. The host client plug-and-play system according to claim 2, wherein the device server comprises an authentication unit which authenticates transmission and installation of the device driver and software provided to the host.

5. The host client plug-and-play system according to claim 1, wherein the client comprises a memory which stores the device driver and software for allowing the host to identify and control the client.

6. The host client plug-and-play system according to claim 5, wherein the memory is a non-volatile memory.

7. The host client plug-and-play system according to claim 1, wherein the host and the client are connected to each other through wired or wireless communication means.

8. The host client plug-and-play system according to claim 7, wherein the communication means is one selected among Infrared data association communication (IrDA), universal serial bus (USB), IEEE 1394, RS-232, RS422, RS-485, and Bluetooth communication schemes.

9. A host client plug-and-play method in a host client communication system where at least one client is controlled by at least one host, comprising:

(a) a step of performing device connection between the client and the host;

(b) a step of performing communication compatible operation step between the client and the host;

(c) a step where the host receives a device driver and control software for allowing the host to identify and control the client;

(d) a step where the host installs the received device driver and control software;

(e) a step of performing device identification and communication compatible operation between the host and the client by using the device deriver installed in the host; and

(f) a step where the host controls the client by using the control software installed in the host.

10. The host client play-and-play method according to claim 9, further comprising, after the step (e):

a step where the host connects the service server to transmit client terminal information;

a step where the service server searches supportable client based service software from the client terminal information; and

a step where the host receives the client based service software from the service server and install the client based service software.

11. The host client play-and-play method according to claim 9, wherein the step (b) comprises:

a step where the client loads a virtual device driver of the memory on a controller and executes the virtual device driver;

a step where the client executes a virtual device response process to transmit a client connection response signal to the host;

a step where the host analyses the received client connection response signal to search a standard device driver;

a step where the host loads the searched standard device driver on a memory; and

a step where the host identifies the client and performs communication compatible operation by using the standard device driver.

12. The host client play-and-play method according to claim 9, wherein the step (b) comprises:

a step where the client executes a standard device driver;

a step where the client executes a standard device response process to transmit a client connection response signal to the host;

a step where the host analyzes the received client connection response signal to search the standard device driver;

a step where the host loads the searched standard device driver on a memory; and

a step where the host identifies the client and performs communication compatible operation by using the standard device driver.

13. The host client play-and-play method according to claim 9, wherein the step (c) comprises a step where the client transmits the device driver and control software stored in the memory to the host.

14. The host client play-and-play method according to claim 9, wherein the step (c) comprises:

a step where the client transmits an installation agent to the host;

a step where the host executes the transmitted installation agent to transmit a list of the device drivers and control software which are to be installed in the host to the client; and

a step where the client transmits the device drivers and control software requested by the installation agent to the host.

15. The host client play-and-play method according to claim 9, wherein the step (c) comprises:

a step where the client transmits position information of the device driver and control software to the host;

a step where the host requests the device server for the device driver and control software;

a step where the device serve transmits the requested device driver and control software to the host.

16. The host client play-and-play method according to claim 9, wherein the step (c) comprises:

a step where the client transmits an installation agent to the host;

a step where the host executes the transmitted installation agent to transmit a list of the device drivers and control software which are to be installed in the host to the device server; and

a step where the device server transmits the requested device drivers and control software to the host.

17. The host client play-and-play method according to claim 9, wherein the step (c) comprises:

a step where the clients connects the device server to receive the device driver and control software;

a step where the client transmits the received device driver and control software to the host.

18. The host client play-and-play method according to claim 9, wherein the step (c) comprises:

a step where the client connects the device server to request the device server to transmit the device driver and control software to the host; and

a step where the device server transmits the device driver and control software to the host.

19. The host client play-and-play method according to claim 9, wherein the step (e) comprises:

a step where the host transmits device driver install completion information to the client;

a step where the client executes the device driver;

a step where the client transmits execution information of the device driver to the host and ends executing of a virtual device driver or a standard device driver;

a step of performing device identification and connection between the host and the client by using the device driver; and

a step where the host loads the device driver on a memory and executes the control software.

20. The host client play-and-play method according to claim 9, further comprising, before the step (c), an authentication step for transmitting the device driver and control software.

21. The host client play-and-play method according to claim 20, wherein the authentication step comprises:

a step where the host receives authentication information;

a step where the host transmits the transmitted authentication information to an authentication server;

a step where the authentication server verifies the transmitted authentication information;

a step where authentication success information is transmitted to the host where the authentication succeeds as a verification result;

a step where the host analyzes the authentication success information to inform data transmission permission;

a step where authentication failure information is transmitted to the host where the authentication does not succeed as a verification result; and

a step where the host analyzes the authentication failure information to inform data transmission prohibition.

22. The host client play-and-play method according to claim 9, further comprising, before the step (d), an authentication step for installing the device driver and control software.

23. The host client play-and-play method according to claim 22, wherein the authentication step comprises:

a step where the host transmits terminal information and installation file information to an authentication server;

a step where the authentication server determines where not the terminal information and the installation file information are equal to each other;

a step where authentication success information is transmitted to the host when a file is a normally authenticated file as a determination result;

a step where the host analyzes transmitted authentication success information to install the file;

a step where authentication failure information is transmitted to the host when a file is not a normally authenticated file as a determination result;

a step where the host stop installing the file due to the authentication failure.

24. A host client plug-and-play method in a host client communication system where at least one client is controlled by at least one host, comprising:

(a) a step of performing device connection between the client and the host;

(b) a step of performing communication compatible operation step between the client and the host by using a translation process;

(c) a step where the host receives control software for allowing the host to control the client and installs the control software;

(d) a step where the host performs device identification and communication compatible operation between the host and the client by using a standard device driver; and

(e) a step where the host controls the client by using the control software installed in the host,

25. The host client play-and-play method according to claim 24, wherein the step (b) comprises:

a step where the client executes the standard device driver and the translation process;

a step where the client executes a standard device response process to transmit a client connection response signal to the host;

a step where the host analyzes the received the client connection response signal to search the standard device driver;

a step where the host loads the searched standard device driver on a memory; and

a step where the host identifies the client and performs communication compatible operation by using the standard device driver

26. The host client play-and-play method according to claim 25, wherein the communication compatible operation step comprises:

a step where the host transmits a control command to the client by using the standard device driver;

a step of the client translates the transmitted control command into a form which the client can recognize by using the translation process; and

a step where the client executes the translated control command.