Home gateway and smart terminal integrated system and communication method thereof

• US 20150349975A1
• Filed: 07/16/2013
• Published: 12/03/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 10/19/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: ZTE Corporation
• Original Assignee: ZTE Corporation
• Inventors: Li, Xinghua, Hu, Li, Lu, Huan
• Application Number:
  US14/436,611
• Publication Number:
  US 20150349975A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2009/45595 Network integration; Enabling network access in virtual machine instances
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/45558 Hypervisor-specific management and integration aspects
• 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 12/2834 Switching of information between an external network and a home network access arrangements H04L12/2856
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/66 Arrangements for connecting between networks having differing types of switching systems, e.g. gateways
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 2012/2841 Wireless
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/12 specially adapted for proprietary or special-purpose networking environments, e.g. medical networks, sensor networks, networks in vehicles or remote metering networks

Abstract

A home gateway and smart terminal integrated system is described, which includes a home gateway body and at least one subsidiary smart terminal. The home gateway body adopts a multi-core processor architecture and virtualization technology, and has abundant software and hardware resources, and can conduct function extension in a manner of installing application software in addition to having a routing and forwarding function of an existing home gateway; and the subsidiary smart terminal enables a user to securely operate an smart household terminal only by the software and hardware resources. Thus the problem that the utilization rate of a smart terminal device is low and functions of an existing home gateway are single, and etc. is solved without purchasing a smart terminal for each family member.

Claims

1. A home gateway and smart terminal integrated system, comprising a home gateway body and at least one subsidiary smart terminal, wherein

the subsidiary smart terminal comprises a terminal hardware layer and a terminal software layer, and is configured to display a user graphic interface and support a user input operation;

and

the home gateway body comprises a hardware layer and a software layer and is configured to perform software and hardware resource processing on the user graphic interface and the user input operation, and to send a processing result to the subsidiary smart terminal or an external network, or to receive data from outside and make a response.

2. The home gateway and smart terminal integrated system according to claim 1, wherein the hardware layer comprises a multi-core processor, a Random Access Memory (RAM), a solid state driver, a Universal Serial Bus (USB) host, an Ethernet switch module, a Wireless Fidelity (WiFi) access module, and an external network interface module.

3. The home gateway and smart terminal integrated system according to claim 2, wherein the software layer comprises a Virtual Machine Monitor (VMM) module, a Virtual Machine (VM) and a home gateway software module, wherein

the VMM module is configured to establish at least one said VM, and distribute and schedule a hardware resource for the VM;

the VM comprises a subsidiary smart terminal operating system and applications;

the subsidiary smart terminal operating system is configured to draw the user graphic interface and respond to the user input operation, and is further configured to complete data communication outside; and

the home gateway software module is configured to operate a built-in software function of an existing home gateway.

4. The home gateway and smart terminal integrated system according to claim 3, wherein the VMM module comprises a switcher software module, a first driver proxy, an Ethernet driver driver, a WiFi driver, and an external network driver, wherein

the switcher software module is configured to inquire for a Media Access Control (MAC) address, and write, according to the MAC address, data into a driver queue;

the Ethernet driver is provided with an Ethernet driver queue, and is configured to drive, when the integrated system performs wired communication with a home network, the integrated system to write data into the Ethernet driver queue;

the WiFi driver is provided with a WiFi driver queue and is configured to drive, when the integrated system performs wireless communication with a home network, the integrated system to write data into the WiFi driver queue; and

the external network driver is provided with an external network driver queue and is configured to drive, when the integrated system performs data communication with an external network, the integrated system to write data into the external network driver queue.

5. The home gateway and smart terminal integrated system according to claim 4, wherein the terminal software layer comprises a second driver proxy.

6. The home gateway and smart terminal integrated system according to claim 4, wherein the first driver proxy comprises a Gateway Display Driver Proxy (GDDP) and an input driver proxy;

the second driver proxy comprises a terminal display driver proxy and a touch driver proxy, wherein

the GDDP and the terminal display driver proxy are configured to display the user graphic interface, and establish a link during initialization of the integrated system;

the input driver proxy and the touch driver proxy are configured to support the user input operation, and establish a link during initialization of the integrated system.

7. The home gateway and smart terminal integrated system according to claim 6, wherein the GDDP is further configured to store data.

11. The home gateway and smart terminal integrated system according to claim 5, wherein the first driver proxy comprises a Gateway Display Driver Proxy (GDDP) and an input driver proxy;

the second driver proxy comprises a terminal display driver proxy and a touch driver proxy, wherein

the GDDP and the terminal display driver proxy are configured to display the user graphic interface, and establish a link during initialization of the integrated system;

the input driver proxy and the touch driver proxy are configured to support the user input operation, and establish a link during initialization of the integrated system.

12. The home gateway and smart terminal integrated system according to claim 11, wherein the GDDP is further configured to store data.

8. A communication method for a home gateway and smart terminal integrated system, comprising:

displaying, by a subsidiary smart terminal, a user graphic interface and supporting a user input operation;

encapsulating, by a home gateway body, data corresponding to the user graphic interface and the user input operation to form a data frame, and then sending, according to a Media Access Control (MAC) address, the data frame to a subsidiary smart terminal which is connected to a home network, or to an external network, or receiving data from an external network and making a response.

9. The communication method for a home gateway and smart terminal integrated system according to claim 8, wherein the communication method comprises data communication between an operating system of the subsidiary smart terminal and the home network, data communication between the operating system of the subsidiary smart terminal and the external network, and data communication between operating systems of subsidiary smart terminals, wherein

when the data communication is performed between the operating system of the subsidiary smart terminal and the home network, a driver module first encapsulates data to form a data frame, a Virtual Machine Monitor (VMM) module then captures the data frame and delivers the data frame to a switcher software module;

the switcher software module performs data transmission according to a target MAC address;

when the data communication is performed between the operating system of the subsidiary smart terminal and the external network, the driver module first encapsulates data to form a data frame, the VMM module then captures the data frame and delivers the data frame to the switcher software module;

after the data frame is sent to a home gateway software module to process, the switcher software module performs data transmission according to a target MAC address;

when the data communication is performed between the operating systems of the subsidiary smart terminals, after the driver module encapsulates data to form a data frame, the switcher software module forwards the data frame directly.

10. The communication method for a home gateway and smart terminal integrated system according to claim 9, wherein the driver module comprises an Ethernet driver, a Wireless Fidelity (WiFi) driver, an external network driver and a network driver module.