Obje network device service apparatus and method in UPnP network system

• US 7,933,973 B2
• Filed: 03/19/2007
• Issued: 04/26/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 10/31/2006
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Inventors: Park, Sang Do, Kim, Jun Hyeong
• Primary Examiner(s): Backer; Firmin
• Assistant Examiner(s): Edwards; James
• Application Number:
  US11/723,291
• Publication Number:
  US 20080104253A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,499 Days
• Field of Search: 709/219
• US Class Current: 709/219
• 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 12/2832 Interconnection of the control functionalities between home networks single bridge functionality H04L12/4625
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/51 Discovery or management thereof, e.g. service location protocol [SLP] or web services

Abstract

An Obje network device service apparatus in a Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) network system, the apparatus including: an information providing unit which discovers an Obje device, and provides information about the discovered Obje device; and an Obje service generation unit which generates a UPnP device, a counter Obje component, and an Obje client, based on the information about the Obje device, the UPnP device controlling the Obje client to use the Obje device in a UPnP control point and corresponding to the Obje device, the counter Obje component having a data type of the Obje device, and the Obje client generating a session for data transmission between the Obje device and the counter Obje component.

Claims

1. An Obje network device service apparatus that controls an Obje object of an Obje network in a Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) network system that includes a UPnP network and the Obje network, the apparatus comprising:

an Obje service generation unit; and

an information providing unit which discovers the Obje device in the Obje network, and provides information about the Obje device to the Obje service generation unit;

wherein the Obje service generation unit generates a UPnP device, in the UPnP network, that corresponds to the Obje device, a counter Obje component, in the Obje network, that comprises a data type of the Obje device, and an Obje client, in the Obje network, that generates a session for data transmission between the Obje device and the counter Obje component, based on the information about the Obje device, and

wherein the UPnP device controls the Obje client to control the Obje device based on a command received from a UPnP control point, in the UPnP network, that discovers the UPnP device.

2. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the Obje service generation unit comprises:

a UPnP device generation unit which generates the UPnP device;

a counter Obje component generation unit which generates the counter Obje component; and

a client generation unit which generates the session for data transmission between the Obje device and the counter Obje component.

3. The apparatus of claim 2, wherein the counter Obje component generation unit generates an Obje sink component having a data type of an Obje source component if the Obje device is the Obje source component, and generates an Obje source component having a data type of an Obje sink component if the Obje device is the Obje sink component.

4. The apparatus of claim 2, wherein the UPnP device controls the Obje client to generate the data transmission between the Obje device and the counter Obje component, when a control command of the UPnP control point is input into the UPnP device.

5. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the information providing unit discovers the Obje device via an Obje discovery.

6. The apparatus of claim 3, wherein the Obje source component directly transmits a content and a mobile code for managing the content to the Obje sink component.

7. An Obje network device service method of controlling an Obje object of an Obje network in a Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) network system that includes a UPnP network and the Obje network, the method comprising:

discovering the Obje device in the Obje network, and providing information about the Obje device; and

generating a UPnP device, in the UPnP network, that corresponds to the Obje device, a counter Obje component, in the Obje network, that comprises a data type of the Obje device, and an Obje client, in the Obje network, that generates a session for data transmission between the Obje device and the counter Obje component, based on the information about the Obje device,

wherein the UPnP device controls the Obje client to control the Obje device based on a command received from a UPnP control point, in the UPnP network, that discovers the UPnP device.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein the generating of the UPnP device, the counter Obje component, and the Obje client comprises:

generating, by a UPnP device generation unit, the UPnP device corresponding to the Obje device;

generating, by a counter Obje component generation unit, the counter Obje component having the data type of the Obje device;

generating, by a client generation unit, the Obje client which generates the session for data transmission between the Obje device and the counter Obje component; and

controlling the Obje client to use the Obje device in the UPnP control point, by the UPnP device.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein the generating of the counter Obje component generates an Obje sink component having a data type of an Obje source component if the discovered Obje device is the Obje source component, and generates the Obje source component having a data type of the Obje sink component if the discovered Obje device is the Obje sink component.

10. The method of claim 8, wherein the controlling of the Obje client controls the Obje client to generate the data transmission between the Obje device and the counter Obje component by the UPnP device, if a control command of the UPnP control point is input into the UPnP device.

11. The method of claim 7, wherein the discovering of the Obje device discovers the Obje device via an Obje discovery.

12. A computer-readable recording medium storing a program for implementing an Obje network device service method of controlling an Obje object of an Obje network in a Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) network system that includes a UPnP network and the Obje network, the method comprising:

discovering the Obje device in the Obje network, and providing information about the Obje device; and

generating a UPnP device, in the UPnP network, that corresponds to the Obje device, a counter Obje component, in the Obje network, that comprises a data type of the Obje device, and an Obje client, in the Obje network, that generates a session for data transmission between the Obje device and the counter Obje component, based on the information about the Obje device,

wherein the UPnP device controls the Obje client to control the Obje device based on a command received from a UPnP control point, in the UPnP network, that discovers the UPnP device.

13. An Obje network device service method of controlling an Obje object of an Obje network in a Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) network system that includes a UPnP network and the Obje network, the method comprising:

discovering the Obje device in the Obje network;

providing information about the discovered Obje device;

generating a UPnP device, in the UPnP network, that corresponds to the Obje device; and

generating an Obje client, in the Obje network, that controls the Obje device; and

controlling by the UPnP device in response to a command received from a UPnP control point, in the UPnP network, that discovers the UPnP device, the Obje client to control the Obje device, based on the command.

14. The Obje network device service method according to claim 13, further comprising generating a counter Obje component having a data type of the Obje device.

15. The Obje network device service method according to claim 14, wherein the Obje client generates a session for data transmission between the Obje device and the counter Obje component.