Protocol conversion device and protocol conversion method

• US 9,106,475 B2
• Filed: 03/15/2013
• Issued: 08/11/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 04/11/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Matsumura, Hiroaki
• Primary Examiner(s): Mui, Gary
• Application Number:
  US13/840,524
• Publication Number:
  US 20130272317A1
• Time in Patent Office: 879 Days
• Field of Search: 370/466, 370/467
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/565 Conversion or adaptation of application format or content adding application control or application functional data H04L67/561
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/08 Protocols for interworking; Protocol conversion
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/18 Multiprotocol handlers, e.g. single devices capable of handling multiple protocols

Abstract

A protocol conversion device includes: a first protocol control unit transmitting/receiving first protocol data using a first protocol with information corresponding to a set operation mode to/from a first electronic device connected to a relay device and in which connection adjustment is performed by the first protocol; and a second protocol control unit converting second protocol data received through the relay device from a second electronic device connected to the relay device and in which communication is performed by a second protocol into the first protocol data to transmit the data to the first protocol control unit, and converting the first protocol data received by the first protocol control unit through the relay device into the second protocol data to transmit the data to the second electronic device.

Claims

1. A protocol conversion device comprising:

a first protocol control unit transmitting/receiving first protocol data using a first protocol to/from a first electronic device connected to a relay device and in which connection adjustment is performed by the first protocol;

a second protocol control unit converting second protocol data received through the relay device from a second electronic device connected to the relay device and in which communication is performed by a second protocol into the first protocol data to transmit the data to the first protocol control unit, and converting the first protocol data received by the first protocol control unit through the relay device into the second protocol data to transmit the data to the second electronic device; and

a system control unit setting an operation mode of the first protocol control unit and the second protocol control unit, wherein the first protocol control unit and the second protocol control unit are activated and deactivated based on the set operation mode.

2. The protocol conversion device according to claim 1,

wherein the first protocol control unit adds information indicating the operation mode to the first protocol data when the operation mode is set in a single-device control mode in which an operation of a single first electronic device is controlled or in a device mode in which the second electronic device is operated as the first electronic device, and adds information indicating the operation mode and information specifying plural first electronic devices to the first protocol data when the operation mode is set in a plural-device control mode in which operations of the plural first electronic devices are controlled.

3. The protocol conversion device according to claim 2, wherein the first protocol control unit also starts session connection to the second electronic device when the operation mode is set in the single-device control mode or the plural-device control mode, and waits for a request for session connection from the second electronic device when the operation mode is set in the device mode.

4. A protocol conversion method comprising:

transmitting/receiving first protocol data using a first protocol to/from a first electronic device connected to a relay device and in which connection adjustment is performed by the first protocol by a first protocol control unit;

converting second protocol data received through the relay device from a second electronic device connected to the relay device and in which communication is performed by a second protocol into the first protocol data to transmit the data to the first protocol control unit, and converting the first protocol data received by the first protocol control unit through the relay device into the second protocol data to transmit the data to the second electronic device by a second protocol control unit; and

setting an operation mode of the first protocol control unit and the second protocol control unit, wherein the first protocol control unit and the second protocol control unit are activated and deactivated based on the set operation mode.

5. A protocol conversion device comprising:

a first protocol control unit transmitting/receiving first protocol data using a first protocol with information corresponding to a set operation mode to/from a first electronic device in which connection adjustment is performed by the first protocol;

a second protocol control unit converting second protocol data, received from a second electronic device in which communication is performed by a second protocol, into the first protocol data to transmit the data to the first protocol control unit, and converting the first protocol data received by the first protocol control unit into the second protocol data to transmit the data to the second electronic device; and

a system control unit setting the operation mode of the first protocol control unit and the second protocol control unit,

wherein the first protocol control unit adds information indicating the operation mode to the first protocol data when the operation mode is set in a single-device control mode in which an operation of a single first electronic device is controlled or in a device mode in which the second electronic device is operated as the first electronic device, and adds information indicating the operation mode and information specifying plural first electronic devices to the first protocol data when the operation mode is set in a plural-device control mode in which operations of the plural first electronic devices are controlled.