APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING HOME NETWORK SERVICE IN PORTABLE TERMINAL

• US 20130066635A1
• Filed: 09/10/2012
• Published: 03/14/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 09/08/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: KIM, Jong-Seok, Park, Jin
• Application Number:
  US13/608,265
• Publication Number:
  US 20130066635A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 704/270.1
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/2816 Controlling appliance services of a home automation network by calling their functionalities arrangements in telecontrol or telemetry systems for selectively calling a substation from a main station; in which substation desired apparatus is selected for applying a control signal thereto or for obtaining measured values therefrom H04Q9/00
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/282 based on user interaction within the home receiver circuitry for displaying additional information being controlled by a remote control apparatus H04N21/42204
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0803 Configuration setting
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0806 for initial configuration or provisioning, e.g. plug-and-play

Abstract

An apparatus and a method, which set a remote control command for controlling a home network service in a portable terminal are provided. The apparatus includes a memory for storing configuration types of a remote control command in a set order in a home network service; and a controller for setting the remote control command including the input configuration types of the remote control command and transmitting the remote control command, when the configuration types of the remote control command are input in the set order in the home network service.

Claims

1. An apparatus for controlling a home network service in a portable terminal, the apparatus comprising:

a memory for storing configuration types of a remote control command in a set order in a home network service; and

a controller for setting the remote control command including the input configuration types of the remote control command and transmitting the remote control command, when the configuration types of the remote control command are input in the set order in the home network service.

2. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the configuration types of the remote control command comprise in sequence a time, a place, an object and an operation, and

wherein the place, the object and the operation correspond to required components.

3. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the controller displays types of objects located at a selected place when the place is selected in a mode of setting a command for remotely controlling a menu of the home network service;

displays types of operations to be performed by a selected object when the object is selected; and

sets the remote control command including the selected place, the selected object and a selected operation, when the operation is selected.

4. The apparatus of claim 3, wherein the controller sets a selected time as a time of transmitting the remote control command when the time is selected before selection of the place, and sets a current time as the time of transmitting the remote control command when the time is not selected before the selection of the place.

5. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein, in a mode of setting a voice command for remote control of the home network service, the controller detects a place, an object and an operation from an input voice command for remote control, and sets the remote control command including the detected place, the detected object and the detected operation.

6. The apparatus of claim 5, wherein the controller performs an operation for outputting a voice message requesting an input of a place when the place is not detected from the voice command for the remote control.

7. The apparatus of claim 5, wherein the controller detects the operation when the object detected from the voice command for the remote control is included in types of objects located at the detected place, and sets the remote control command when the detected operation is included in types of operations to be performed by the detected object.

8. The apparatus of claim 7, wherein the controller performs an operation for outputting a voice message requesting an input of an object, when the object is not detected from the voice command for the remote control or when the detected object is not included in the types of the objects located at the detected place.

9. The apparatus of claim 7, wherein the controller performs an operation for outputting a voice message requesting an input of an operation, when the operation is not detected from the voice command for the remote control or when the detected operation is not included in the types of the operations to be performed by the detected object.

10. The apparatus of claim 5, wherein the controller sets a detected time as a time of transmitting the remote control command when the time is detected from the voice command for the remote control before the place, and performs an operation for setting a current time as the time of transmitting the remote control command when the time is not detected from the voice command for the remote control before the place.

11. A method for controlling a home network service in a portable terminal, the method comprising:

selecting setting of a remote control command in a home network service; and

setting the remote control command including the input configuration types of the remote control command and transmitting the remote control command, when the configuration types of the remote control command are input in a set order in a mode of setting a remote control command.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein the configuration types of the remote control command comprise in sequence a time, a place, an object and an operation, wherein the place, the object and the operation correspond to required components.

13. The method of claim 11, wherein transmitting the set remote control command comprises:

displaying types of objects located at a selected place when the place is selected in a mode of setting a command for remotely controlling a menu of the home network service;

displaying types of operations to be performed by a selected object when the object is selected from among the displayed types of the objects; and

setting the remote control command comprising the selected place, the selected object and a selected operation, when the operation is selected among the displayed types of the operations.

14. The method of claim 13, further comprising:

setting a selected time as a time of transmitting the remote control command when the time is selected before selection of the place; and

setting a current time as the time of transmitting the remote control command when the time is not selected before the selection of the place.

15. The method of claim 11, wherein transmitting the set remote control command comprises:

analyzing an input voice command for remote control when the voice command for the remote control is input, in a mode of setting a voice command for remote control of the home network service; and

setting the remote control command including a detected place, a detected object and a detected operation, when the place, the object and the operation are detected from the voice command for the remote control.

16. The method of claim 15, wherein setting the remote control command comprises:

detecting an object from the voice command for the remote control when the place is detected from the voice command for the remote control;

identifying whether the detected object is included in types of objects located at the detected place, when the object is detected;

detecting an operation from the voice command for the remote control when the detected object is included in the types of the objects located at the detected place;

identifying whether the detected operation is included in types of operations to be performed by the detected object, when the operation is detected; and

setting the remote control command comprising the detected place, the detected object and the detected operation, when the detected operation is included in the types of the operations to be performed by the detected object.

17. The method of claim 16, further comprising:

outputting a voice message requesting an input of a place when the place is not detected from the voice command for the remote control.

18. The method of claim 16, further comprising:

outputting a voice message requesting an input of an object, when the object is not detected from the voice command for the remote control or when the detected object is not included in the types of the objects located at the detected place.

19. The method of claim 16, further comprising:

outputting a voice message requesting an input of an operation, when the operation is not detected from the voice command for the remote control or when the detected operation is not included in the types of the operations to be performed by the detected object.

20. The method of claim 15, further comprising:

setting a detected time as a time of transmitting the remote control command when the time is detected from the voice command for the remote control before the place; and

setting a current time as the time of transmitting the remote control command when the time is not detected from the voice command for the remote control before the place.