Intelligent home control bus

• US 6,868,295 B2
• Filed: 02/27/2001
• Issued: 03/15/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 02/28/2000
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Geng Huang
• Original Assignee: Geng Huang
• Inventors: Huang, Geng
• Primary Examiner(s): Gandhi, Jayprakash N.
• Application Number:
  US09/794,684
• Publication Number:
  US 20010049761A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,477 Days
• Field of Search: 700/40, 700/90, 700/83, 700/275, 700/295, 340/3.1, 307/11
• US Class Current: 700/90
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 2203/5408 using protocols
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 2203/5445 Local network
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 2203/5458 Monitor sensor; Alarm systems
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 2203/547 via DC power distribution
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 3/542 the information being in digital form
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/2803 Home automation networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/2829 involving user profiles according to which the execution of a home appliance functionality is automatically triggered
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/2838 Distribution of signals within a home automation network, e.g. involving splitting/multiplexing signals to/from different paths adaptations of television systems for transmission by electric cable for domestic distribution H04N7/106; hybrid transport H04L12/6418; home network arrangements specially adapted for distribution of digital video signals H04N7/24

Abstract

This invention is an intelligent home control bus (IHbus). It comprises at least one input node (sensor, announcer) A and at least a output node (operator, listener) L. A control instructions are input from the input node A, and transferred to the output node L through a control bus, and the output node L outputs a logic operation result based on the instructions. The node A is a control device for transmitting data and has at least one input circuit for inputting a special logical state. The node L is a device for receiving data and performing a operation and has at least one output circuit for outputting a special logical state.

Claims

1. An intelligent home control network having a least one input node and at least one output node, wherein control instructions are input to the input node and transferred to the output node through a control bus, and the output node outputs a logic operation result based on the instructions, the intelligent home control network, comprising:

the input node being a control device for transmitting data, the input node having at least one input circuit for inputting an input logical state, and the input node having least one event data packet, and wherein the input node transmits the event packet to the control bus when the state of the input circuit is varied;

the output node being a device for receiving data and performing an operation, the output node having at least one output circuit for outputting an output logical state, the output node being responsive to a programming process and having at least one read-write memory for storing programmed data generated in the programming process; and

after receiving the event data packet transmitted from the input node through the control bus, the output node compares the received data packet with the programmed data stored in the memory, and determines the output logical state according to the result of the comparing.

2. The intelligent home control network according to claim 1, wherein the event data packets of the input node have been stored in a nonvolatile memory of the input node in advance, such that programming is impossible at the input node.

3. The intelligent home control network according to claim 1, wherein the output node further comprises a programming button for placing the output node into a programming state, such that programming is possible at the output node.

4. The intelligent home control network according to claim 1, wherein the logical relationship between the input node and the output node is based on the programming process of the output node without any relationship with the significance of the event data packet from the input node.

5. The intelligent home control network according to claim 1, wherein said read-write memory of the output node is the data memory contained in a micro processor of the output node or corresponding nonvolatile memories.

6. The intelligent home control network according to claim 1, wherein the output node further comprises at least one LED for showing the output logic state of the output node.

7. The intelligent home control network according to claim 2, wherein the nonvolatile memory of the input node is read-only memory contained in a CPU of the input node.

8. The intelligent home control network according to claim 3, wherein the programming state is a state where the output node waits for the event data packet from the input node and the data of any corresponding operational instruction, which are acceptable and explainable by the output node, from a programming device.

9. The intelligent home control network according to claim 8, wherein the event data packet from the input node, and the corresponding operational instruction from programming device are stored into said read-write memory as data after programming.

10. The intelligent home control network according to claim 1, wherein the input node transmits the event data packet to the bus using an encoding method that is similar to that of LonWorks;

the encoding method means that binary number 1 is made from one pulse (no matter with the direction of the pulse), and binary number 0 is made from two reversed pulses which are same width.

11. The intelligent home control network according to claim 10, wherein the pulse wave period of the binary number 1 is equal to the sum of two pulses wave periods of the binary number 0, that is, the binary numbers 1 and 0 have the same transmit time (100 μ

s) and the same speed (10 Kbps).

12. The intelligent home control network according to claim 10, wherein respective kinds of event data packet have the same length, that is, 10 bytes, the first byte is data sort code, the second to ninth byte contains node ID code, and the tenth byte is the check sum of the total data packet.

13. An intelligent home control network comprising:

an input node having an input circuit configured to receive input logic states and produce an event data packet related to the input logic states, wherein each input logic state relates to a single event data packet;

a control bus coupled to the input node, the control bus transmitting the event data packets;

an output node coupled to the control bus configured to receive the event data packets, the output node having an output memory and having an output circuit configured to produce output logic states causing output operations; and

wherein the output node is programmable such that correlation is saved in the output memory between event data packets and output logic states, wherein each event data packet correlates with a single output logic state.

14. The intelligent home control network of claim 13, wherein each output logic state causes one unique output operation.

15. The intelligent home control network according to claim 13, wherein the event data packets of the input node have been stored in a nonvolatile memory of the input node in advance, such that programming is impossible at the input node.

16. The intelligent home control network according to claim 13, wherein the output node further comprises a programming button for placing the output node into a programming state, such that programming is possible at the output node.

17. The intelligent home control network according to claim 16, wherein the programming state is a state where the output node waits for the event data packet from the input node and the data of any corresponding operational instructions, which are acceptable and explainable by the output node from a programming device.