METHOD AND APPARATUS OF PROVISIONING HOME ENERGY MANAGEMENT SERVICES
First Claim
1. A method for provisioning home energy management services, the method comprising:
- supplying a service user with a list of home energy management services that subscription of the user is allowed to;
transmitting a request to subscribe to a service to a home energy management service provider server on a communication network which provides the home energy management service selected by the user from the list;
performing an authentication with the home energy management service provider server and receiving a secret key for encryption and decryption of a message that is transmitted and received for the service;
searching for home energy devices on a home network and transmitting a list of searched home energy devices to the home energy management service provider server; and
sending the message received from the home energy management service provider server to the same home energy devices.
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Abstract
A method for provisioning home energy management services includes supplying a service user with a list of home energy management services; and transmitting a request to subscribe to a service to a home energy management service provider server on a communication network. Further, the method includes performing an authentication with the home energy management service provider server and receiving a secret key for encryption and decryption of a message that is transmitted and received for the service; searching for home energy devices on a home network and transmitting a list of searched home energy devices to the home energy management service provider server; and sending the message received from the home energy management service provider server to the same home energy devices.
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1. A method for provisioning home energy management services, the method comprising:
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supplying a service user with a list of home energy management services that subscription of the user is allowed to; transmitting a request to subscribe to a service to a home energy management service provider server on a communication network which provides the home energy management service selected by the user from the list; performing an authentication with the home energy management service provider server and receiving a secret key for encryption and decryption of a message that is transmitted and received for the service; searching for home energy devices on a home network and transmitting a list of searched home energy devices to the home energy management service provider server; and sending the message received from the home energy management service provider server to the same home energy devices. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
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7. An apparatus for provisioning home energy management services, the apparatus comprising:
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a home energy management service subscription unit configured to make a request for the subscription to a particular home energy management service, which is selected by a user, to a home energy management service provider server which provides the home energy management services, and receive a secret key for encryption and decryption necessary for the selected home energy management service; a security memory area management unit configured to manage a secret key which is received in the home energy management services subscription unit or a memory area capable of storing security information related to the service provisioning; a home energy device management unit configured to search for home energy devices on a home network to assign unique identifiers (IDs) to the searched home energy devices and transmit a list of the searched home energy devices to the home energy management service provider server; an encryption/decryption processing unit configured to perform an encryption and decryption on a home energy management message, which is transmitted to and received from the home energy management service provider server, using the secret key; and a home energy management message processing unit configured to manage the home energy service management message being transmitted and received between the home energy management service provider server and the home energy devices. - View Dependent Claims (8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14)
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