METHOD FOR CONTROLLING A SMART HOME APPLICANCE

• US 20200136848A1
• Filed: 10/24/2018
• Published: 04/30/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 10/24/2018
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: KYE Systems Corporation
• Original Assignee: KYE Systems Corporation
• Inventors: CHAN, Chi-Wai
• Application Number:
  US16/169,864
• Publication Number:
  US 20200136848A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/4411 Configuring for operating with peripheral devices; Loading of device drivers
• 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 12/2814 Exchanging control software or macros for controlling appliance services in a home automation network arrangements for maintenance or administration involving configuration of the network and network elements H04L41/08
• 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

Abstract

A smart home appliance controlling method that is applicable to a smart home appliance device, a computer peripheral device and a computer, and the smart home appliance device controlling method includes: executing an import program to obtain a smart home appliance configuration file, and operating the computer periphery to send a control operation after obtaining the smart home appliance configuration file, and the processing unit generates a control command according to the control operation and the smart home appliance configuration file, the communication unit sends a control packet according to the control command and a communication protocol, and the smart home appliance receives the control packet, and executes a control command in the control packet.

Claims

1. A control method for smart home appliance, with said control method applicable to a smart home appliance device, a computer peripheral device and a computer, and the control method comprising:

performing an import procedure to obtain a smart home appliance configuration file;

detecting a control operation by the computer peripheral device after obtaining the smart home appliance configuration file;

generating a control command according to the control operation and the smart home appliance configuration file by a processing unit;

transmitting a control packet according to the control command and a communication protocol by a communication unit; and

receiving the control packet by the smart home appliance and executing the control command in the control packet.

2. The control method for smart home appliance according to claim 1, wherein the smart home appliance and the computer are all communicably connected to a network, and the import procedure comprises:

connecting the computer with the peripheral device of the computer;

executing an embedded program by the computer and detecting whether there is a smart home appliance connected to the network by the embedded program;

obtaining an identification code of the smart home appliance connected to the network by the embedded program; and

checking whether there is a custom smart home appliance configuration file corresponding to the identification codes by the embedded program,

wherein the embedded program uses the custom smart home appliance configuration file as the smart home appliance configuration file when the custom smart home appliance configuration file exists, and the embedded program uses a default smart home appliance configuration file as the smart home appliance configuration file when the custom smart home appliance configuration file does not exist.

3. The control method for smart home appliance according to claim 1, wherein the import procedure comprises:

performing a pairing process between the computer peripheral device and the smart home appliance device to establish a pairing connection between the computer peripheral device and the smart home appliance device, wherein the pairing process includes;

selectively transmitting or receiving a paired broadcast signal;

establishing the pairing connection after receiving the paired broadcast signal; and

checking whether a temporary storage unit of one of the peripheral devices of the computer has the smart home appliance configuration file after the pairing connection is established;

wherein, when the temporary storage unit does not have the smart home appliance configuration file, the computer peripheral device writes a default configuration file as the smart home appliance configuration file to the temporary storage unit.

4. The control method for smart home appliance according to claim 1, wherein the import procedure comprises:

connecting the computer with the peripheral device of the computer; and

executing an embedded program of the computer to write the smart home appliance configuration file to a temporary storage unit of the computer peripheral device after the computer is connected to the computer peripheral device.

5. The control method for smart home appliance according to claim 2, wherein the import procedure comprises:

executing the embedded program of the computer to write the smart home appliance configuration file to a temporary storage unit of the computer peripheral device after the computer is connected to the computer peripheral device.

6. The control method for smart home appliance according to claim 2, wherein after the computer peripheral device is connected to the computer, the method further comprises:

sending a serial number for representing the user by the peripheral device of the computer; and

determining whether the serial number is legitimate by the embedded program, with obtaining the identification code of the smart home appliance connected to the network based on the embedded program when the serial number is determined to be legitimate, and terminating the embedded program when the serial number is determined to be illegitimate.

7. The control method for smart home appliance according to claim 1, wherein the computer peripheral device is a mouse, a keyboard, a touch pad or a webcam.

8. The control method for smart home appliance according to claim 4, wherein after the embedded program writes the smart home appliance configuration file to the temporary storage unit of the computer peripheral device, the method further comprises:

disconnecting an electrical connection between the computer and the computer peripheral device; and

operating the computer peripheral device to transmit the control operation by the smart home appliance configuration file in the temporary storage unit.

9. The control method for smart home appliance according to claim 1, wherein the communication unit is disposed in the computer.

10. The control method for smart home appliance according to claim 1, wherein the communication unit is disposed in the computer peripheral device.

11. The control method for smart home appliance according to claim 1, wherein the communication protocol is an infrared communication technology, a Bluetooth, a Bluetooth low energy, a Zigbee, or a wireless area network technology.