METHOD AND SERVER FOR APPLICATION SERVICE IN HOME NETWORK SYSTEM

• US 20120117561A1
• Filed: 01/25/2011
• Published: 05/10/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 11/04/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Korea Electronics Technology Institute (Government of South Korea)
• Original Assignee: Korea Electronics Technology Institute (Government of South Korea)
• Inventors: LEE, Yun Ju, LEE, Seok Pil, LIM, Tae Beom, KIM, Kyung Won, MOON, Jae Won
• Application Number:
  US13/013,570
• Publication Number:
  US 20120117561A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 717/178
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/44521 Dynamic linking or loading; Link editing at or after load time, e.g. Java class loading
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/451 Execution arrangements for user interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/2809 indicating that an appliance service is present in a home automation network monitoring functionality H04L43/0817; discovery or management thereof, e.g. service location protocol [SLP] or web services, H04L67/51
• 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 67/34 involving the movement of software or configuration parameters network booting or remote initial program loading [RIPL] G06F9/4416

Abstract

Disclosed are a method and a server for application service in a home network. An application service method in a home network system according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention includes: receiving characteristic information of the terminals and application requests from the terminals; downloading an integrated document including a plurality of components in response to the application requests; generating the application corresponding to each of the terminals by selecting and extracting at least some components from the integrated document according to the characteristic information; and providing the generated application to the corresponding terminal.

Claims

1. An application service method for providing an application suitable for each of a plurality of terminals in a home network system, the method comprising:

receiving characteristic information of the terminals and application requests from the terminals;

downloading an integrated document including a plurality of components in response to the application requests;

generating the application corresponding to each of the terminals by selecting and extracting at least some components from the integrated document according to the characteristic information;

and providing the generated application to the corresponding terminal.

2. The application service method of claim 1, wherein the integrated document is generated with a markup language which integrates components to present the application for each of the plurality of terminals.

3. The application service method of claim 1, wherein the generating includes:

extracting a parameter from the characteristic information;

determining a class corresponding to the terminal using the parameter; and

selecting and extracting at least some components from the integrated document using the determined class.

4. The application service method of claim 3, wherein the characteristic information includes at least one of a performance of the terminal, a resolution of the terminal, a bandwidth of the terminal, a location of terminals, a time of an area where the terminal is positioned, user information of the terminal, a security setting level of the terminal, and a constraint of the application.

5. The application service method of claim 4, wherein the generating further includes generating the application by editing the components of the integrated document or adding another components using the determined class or the characteristic information.

6. A server for providing an application suitable for each of a plurality of terminals in a home network system, the server comprising:

a request processing unit receiving characteristic information of the terminals and application requests from the terminals;

a client performance storing unit determining and storing a class corresponding to each terminal on the basis of the characteristic information;

an application loader downloading an integrated document including a plurality of components in response to the application request; and

a transcoding engine generating the application corresponding to each terminal by selecting and extracting at least some components from the integrated document using the determined class.

7. The server of claim 6, wherein the client performance storing unit extracts a parameter associated with the performance of the terminal from the characteristic information and determines a class of the terminal using the parameter.

8. The server of claim 6, wherein the request processing unit inquires the class corresponding to the terminal of the client performance storing unit, provides information regarding the corresponding class to the transcoding engine according to the inquiry result, and requests downloading the integrated document by providing information regarding the application request to the application loader.

9. The server of claim 6, wherein the characteristic information includes at least one of a performance of the terminal, a resolution of the terminal, a bandwidth of the terminal, a location of terminals, a time of an area where the terminal is positioned, user information of the terminal, a security setting level of the terminal, and a constraint of the application.

10. The server of claim 6, wherein the transcoding engine generates the application by editing the components of the integrated document or adding another components using the determined class or the characteristic information.