Obje network device service control method and system

• US 8,296,395 B2
• Filed: 07/03/2007
• Issued: 10/23/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 07/03/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Samsung Electronics Limited (Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.)
• Inventors: Kim, Jun-hyeong, Park, Sang Do, Atkinson, Russell Roger
• Primary Examiner(s): Lim, Krisna
• Assistant Examiner(s): DESAI, MARGISHI V
• Application Number:
  US11/773,219
• Publication Number:
  US 20090013077A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,939 Days
• Field of Search: 370/401, 709/245, 709/219, 726/12
• 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 41/0809 Plug-and-play configuration
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/12 Discovery or management of network topologies

Abstract

An Obje network device service control method and system, the method including: discovering Obje components by an Obje proxy, and generating component proxies by an Obje proxy, the component proxies respectively corresponding to the Obje components; discovering the component proxies by a Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) control point, and requesting by the UPnP control point a component proxy of the component proxies, which is selected by a UPnP control point, for a presentation page; generating and providing by the selected component proxy the presentation page to the UPnP control point; and controlling by the UPnP control point a transfer session between the Obje components based on the presentation page.

Claims

1. An Obje network device service control method of a Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) control point located in a UPnP network, the method comprising:

discovering Obje components by an Obje proxy, wherein the Obje components and the Obje proxy are located in an Obje network;

generating component proxies in the UPnP network by the Obje proxy, the component proxies respectively corresponding to the Obje components;

discovering the component proxies by the UPnP control point, and requesting by the UPnP control point a component proxy of the component proxies, which is selected by the UPnP control point, for a presentation page;

generating and providing by the selected component proxy the presentation page to the UPnP control point; and

controlling by the UPnP control point a transfer session between the Obje components based on the presentation page.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

requesting by the selected component proxy one of the Obje components, which are connected to the transfer session, for a session controller, if the transfer session between the Obje components is connected;

receiving by the selected component proxy the session controller from the requested Obje component; and

providing by the selected component proxy a second presentation page to the UPnP control point by using the session controller.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the session controller comprises a user interface, which is loaded and used by the UPnP control point, and a message relay which relays a message between the UPnP control point and an Obje component of the Obje components.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the user interface is an applet-based user interface to be included in the second presentation page.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the presentation page comprises connection buttons used for a connection of the transfer session between the Obje components.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

providing a third presentation page to the UPnP control point by the selected component proxy, if the transfer session between the Obje components is connected.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein the third presentation page comprises a disconnection button used for a disconnection of the connected transfer session between the Obje components.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the controlling by the UPnP control point controls the transfer session between the Obje components via the selected component proxy.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the component proxies are UPnP devices representing the Obje components.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein the component proxies are provided with an Obje network status information object from the Obje proxy.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein the selected component proxy provides the presentation page to the UPnP control point by referring to the Obje network status information object.

12. The method of claim 10, wherein the selected component proxy determines an appropriateness of a command by referring to the Obje network status information object, if the command is received from the UPnP control point.

13. The method of claim 10, wherein the Obje network status information object comprises a Obje components list, a component proxies list, a newly added Obje components list, a list of objects representing a pair of components comprising an Obje source component and an Obje sink component having a same data type, and a list of connected objects from the objects representing the pair of components, the connected objected being connected to the transfer session.

14. A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium storing a program for implementing an Obje network device service control method of a Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) control point located in a UPnP network, the method comprising:

discovering Obje components by an Obje proxy, wherein the Obje components and the Obje proxy are located in an Obje network;

generating component proxies in the UPnP network by the Obje proxy, the component proxies respectively corresponding to the Obje components;

discovering the component proxies by the UPnP control point, and requesting by the UPnP control point a component proxy of the component proxies, which is selected by the UPnP control point, for a presentation page;

generating and providing by the selected component proxy the presentation page to the UPnP control point; and

controlling by the UPnP control point a transfer session between the Obje components based on the presentation page.

15. An Obje network device service control system in an Obje and a UPnP network, the system comprising:

a processor comprising;

an Obje proxy which discovers Obje components, wherein the Obje proxy and the Obje components are located in the Obje network, and generates component proxies in the UPnP network respectively corresponding to the Obje components; and

a Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) control point which is located in the UPnP network and discovers the component proxies, and controls a transfer session between the Obje components based on a presentation page which is provided by a component proxy selected from the component proxies.

16. The system of claim 15, wherein the selected component proxy requests one of the Obje components, which are connected to the transfer session, for a session controller if the transfer session between the Obje components is connected, receives the requested session controller from the requested Obje component, and provides a second presentation page to the UPnP control point by using the session controller.

17. The system of claim 16, wherein the session controller comprises a user interface, which is loaded and used by the UPnP control point, and a message relay which relays a message between the UPnP control point and the Obje components.

18. The system of claim 17, wherein the user interface is an applet-based user interface to be included in the second presentation page.

19. The system of claim 15, wherein the presentation page comprises connection buttons used for a connection of the transfer session between the Obje components.

20. The system of claim 15, wherein the UPnP control point is provided with a third presentation page from the selected component proxy, if the transfer session between the Obje components is connected.

21. The system of claim 20, wherein the third presentation page comprises a disconnection button used for a disconnection of the connected transfer session between the Obje components.

22. The system of claim 15, wherein the UPnP control point controls the transfer session between the Obje components via the selected component proxy.