Power management system and method of controlling network system

• US 8,914,133 B2
• Filed: 11/26/2010
• Issued: 12/16/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 12/17/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: Lee, Koonseok, Lee, Hoonbong, Kim, Yanghwan
• Primary Examiner(s): Padmanabhan, Kavita
• Assistant Examiner(s): STEVENS, THOMAS H
• Application Number:
  US13/516,509
• Publication Number:
  US 20120303172A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,481 Days
• US Class Current: 700/1
• 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 43/0817 by checking functioning

Abstract

Provided is a method of controlling a network system. In the method, information about an electric product comprising a communication modem is recognized to make the electric product join a power management network. The electric product is registered in the power management network by allocating an ID (identification) to the electric product.

Claims

1. A method of binding an electric product to a power management network system, the method comprising:

communicating with a communication device of the electric product by a binder or a component in the power management network system;

storing information in the electric product or the communication device corresponding to an ID (identification) allocated to the electric product by the binder or the component in the power management network system; and

registering the electric product with the power management network system using the information corresponding to the ID allocated to the electric product,

wherein if the electric product or the communication device has previously stored information corresponding to another ID related to another power management network system, then deleting the information corresponding to another ID from the electric product or the communication device is performed prior to storing information corresponding to the ID related to a current power management network system in the electric product or the communication device.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the electric product is registered to a management component that manages an operation of the electric product.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein the information corresponding to the ID is allocated to the electric product by a management component that manages an operation of the electric product or the binder.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein the information corresponding to the ID comprises a home code and a product code.

5. The method according to claim 4, wherein when the power management network system comprises the same kind of electric product as the registered electric product, then allocating a unique ID code to the registered electric product to distinguish the registered electric product from the same kind of electric product.

6. The method according to claim 1, wherein after the electric product is registered in the power management network system, displaying by a management component an operation state of the electric product.

7. The method according to claim 6, further comprising displaying by the management component energy information received from a power supply source or energy information related to an operation of the electric product.

8. A power management system comprising:

a binder or a component in the power management system;

a communication device associated with an electric product to communicate with the binder or the component in the power management network system; and

wherein the electric product or the communication device stores information corresponding to an ID (identification) of the electric product allocated by the binder or the component in the power management system, and

wherein if the electric product or the communication device has previously stored information corresponding to another ID related to another power management system, the binder or the component in the power management system deletes the information corresponding to another ID from the electric product or the communication device prior to storing information corresponding to the ID related to a current power management system in the electric product or the communication device.

9. The power management system according to claim 8, wherein the component manages an operation of the electric product and the electric product is registered with the management component.

10. The power management system according to claim 8, wherein the information corresponding to the ID is allocated to the electric product by the component which also manages an operation of the electric product or the binder.

11. The power management system according to claim 8, wherein the information corresponding to the ID comprises a home code and a product code.

12. The power management system according to claim 8, wherein when a power management network comprises the same kind of electric product as the registered electric product, the power management system allocates a unique ID code to the registered electric product to distinguish the registered electric product from the same kind of electric product.

13. The power management system according to claim 8, wherein after the electric product is registered, a display displaying an operation state of the electric product.

14. The power management system according to claim 13, wherein the display further comprises displaying energy information received from a power supply source or energy information related to an operation of the electric product.

15. A method of binding an electric product to a power management network system, the method comprising:

communicating with a communication device of the electric product by a binder or a component in the power management network system;

storing information in the electric product or the communication device corresponding to an ID (identification) allocated to the electric product by the binder or the component in the power management network system; and

registering the electric product with the power management network system using the information corresponding to the ID allocated to the electric product,

wherein if the electric product or the communication device has previously stored information corresponding to another ID and the information corresponding to the another ID is not related to another power management network system, then skipping the storing of the information corresponding to the ID related to a current power management network system, and registering the electric product with the current power management network system using the information corresponding to the another ID are performed.

16. A power management system comprising:

a binder or a component in the power management system;

a communication device associated with an electric product to communicate with the binder or the component in the power management network system; and

wherein the electric product or the communication device stores information corresponding to an ID (identification) of the electric product allocated by the binder or the component in the power management system, and

wherein if the electric product or the communication device has previously stored information corresponding to another ID and the information corresponding to the another ID is not related to another power management system, the binder or the component in the power management system skips the storing of the information corresponding to the ID related to a current power management system, and registers the electric product with the current power management system using the information corresponding to the another ID.