Data storing system and data processing method of informational household appliance

• US 8,335,795 B2
• Filed: 06/29/2007
• Issued: 12/18/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 06/29/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: China Mobile Communications Corporation (Central People's Government of The People's Republic of China)
• Original Assignee: China Mobile Communications Corporation (Central People's Government of The People's Republic of China)
• Inventors: Zhou, Jianming, Ouyang, Congxing, Zhang, Guanghai
• Primary Examiner(s): Wilson, Kimberly
• Assistant Examiner(s): ALLEN, NICHOLAS E
• Application Number:
  US12/600,437
• Publication Number:
  US 20100153437A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,999 Days
• Field of Search: 707/769
• US Class Current: 707/769
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/2827 Reporting to a device within the home network; wherein the reception of the information reported automatically triggers the execution of a home appliance functionality
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 2012/285 Generic home appliances, e.g. refrigerators
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1036 at the edge
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/1097 for distributed storage of data in networks, e.g. transport arrangements for network file system [NFS], storage area networks [SAN] or network attached storage [NAS]

Abstract

A data storing system and data processing method of the informational household appliance are provided. The system includes: one or plurality of home database server of informational household appliance which connected with each other, one or plurality of household gateway server, and one or plurality of data managing server of informational household appliance. The data processing method includes: the data processing method of the informational household appliance on-lining, off-lining and status data updating thereof, and the current status of informational household appliance in real-time reflects to the data managing server of informational household appliance through the household gateway server by this data processing method. The data of the informational household appliance can be stored separately from the informational household appliance, and the data of the informational household appliance can be unitedly managed by the system and method.

Claims

1. A data storing system of an informational household appliance comprising:

one or more home database servers of informational household appliance linked with each other, one or more household gateway servers, and one or more data managing servers of informational household appliance;

the home database server of informational household appliance is for storing static data of the informational household appliance including at least an identification code of the informational household appliance;

the household gateway server is for monitoring status of an informational household appliance linked to the household gateway server in real time and storing operation data of an informational household appliance in operation; and

the data managing server of informational household appliance is for managing one or more household gateway servers, storing the operation data of the informational household appliance in operation including at least static data of the informational household appliance, operation status data of the informational household appliance, and address information of a household gateway server corresponding to the informational household appliance, and managing subscription information of informational household appliance events subscribed by instant communication users.

2. The data storing system of claim 1, wherein, the home database server of informational household appliance, the household gateway server and the data managing server of informational household appliance are linked to each other through a communication network.

3. The data storing system of claim 2, wherein, the communication network comprises an IP multimedia subsystem network and an IP access network linked to each other;

the home database server of informational household appliance and the data managing server of informational household appliance are linked to the IP multimedia subsystem network, and the household gateway server is linked to the IP access network.

4. A data processing method of an informational household appliance by using the data storing system of claim 1, comprising:

sending the identification code of the informational household appliance to the household gateway server when the informational household appliance is linked to the household gateway server;

sending, by the household gateway server, an on-line message including the identification code to the data managing server of the informational household appliance;

extracting, by the data managing server of the informational household appliance, the identification code from the on-line message upon receiving the on-line message;

querying, by the data managing server of the informational household appliance, the home database server of the informational household appliance based on the identification code and obtaining static data of the informational household appliance from the home database server of informational household appliance;

storing, by the data managing server of the informational household appliance, the static data;

sending, by the data managing server of the informational household appliance, the static data to the household gateway server; and

storing, by the household gateway server, the static data of the informational household appliance.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein, after extracting the identification code from the on-line message upon receiving the on-line message and before querying a home database server of informational household appliance of the informational household appliance of the informational household appliance based on the identification code and obtaining static data of the informational household appliance from the home database server of informational household appliance, the method further comprises:

checking whether or not the identification code is stored in the data managing server of informational household appliance, if yes, terminating the data processing process, otherwise, querying a home database server of informational household appliance of the informational household appliance based on the identification codes and obtaining static data of the informational household appliance from the home database server of the informational household appliance.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein, if the data managing server of informational household appliance stores the information of a subscriber that has subscribed to an informational household appliance on-line event corresponding to the household gateway server, and, if the data managing server of informational household appliance has stored with it the identification code of the informational household appliance, before terminating the data processing process, the method further comprises:

the data managing server of informational household appliance sends an on-line event message including the identification code to the subscription device corresponding to the subscriber based on stored information of the subscriber.

7. The method of claim 5, wherein, after the data managing server of informational household appliance obtains the static data of the informational household appliance, the method further comprises:

sending, by the data managing server of informational household appliance, an on-line event message including the identification code and the static data of the informational household appliance to the subscription device corresponding to the subscriber based on the stored information of the subscriber that has subscribed to the informational household appliance on-line event corresponding to the household gateway server.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein, before sending the on-line event message including the identification code and the static data of the informational household appliance to the subscription device corresponding to the subscriber, the method further comprises:

judging whether the subscription device is a home database server of informational household appliance, if yes, sending the on-line event message including the identification code to the home database server of informational household appliance;

otherwise, sending the on-line event message including the identification code and the static data of the informational household appliance to the subscription device corresponding to the subscriber.

9. The method of claim 4, wherein, after extracting the identification code, the method further comprises:

sending, by the data managing server of informational household appliance, an on-line event message including the identification code of the informational household appliance to a subscription device corresponding to a subscriber based on stored information of the subscriber that has subscribed to an informational household appliance on-line event corresponding to the household gateway server.

10. The method of claim 4, wherein, after the data managing server of information household appliance obtains the static data of the informational household appliance, the method further comprises:

sending, by the data managing server of informational household appliance, an on-line event message including the identification code and static data of the informational household appliance to a subscription device corresponding to a subscriber based on the stored information of the subscriber that has subscribed to the informational household appliance on-line event corresponding to the household gateway server.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein, before sending the on-line event message including the identification code and the static data of the informational household appliance to the subscription device corresponding to the subscriber, the method further comprises:

judging whether or not the subscription device is a home database server of informational household appliance, if yes, sending the on-line event message to the home database server of informational household appliance;

otherwise, sending the on-line event message including the identification code and the static data of the informational household appliance to the subscription device corresponding to the subscriber.

12. The method of claim 4, wherein, the method further comprises:

monitoring, by a household gateway server, linking status of an informational household appliance in real time;

sending, by the household gateway server, an off-line message including an identification code of the informational household appliance to a data managing server of informational household appliance upon detecting that the informational household appliance is delinked from the household gateway server.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein, after detecting that the informational household appliance is delinked from the household gateway server, and within a set time period, no recovery of the link of the informational household appliance is detected, the household gateway server deletes the operation data of the informational household appliance stored in it.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein, after receiving the off-line message, and within a set time period, no any operation status data update message or on-line message of the informational household appliance is received, the data managing server of informational household appliance deletes the operation data of the informational household appliance stored in it.

15. The method of claim 12, wherein, after receiving the off-line message, the data managing server of informational household appliance sends an off-line event message including an identification code of the informational household appliance to a subscription device corresponding to a subscriber according to stored information of the subscriber that has subscribed to the informational household appliance off-line event corresponding to the household gateway server.