KR100371169B1 - Accessing apparatus of appliance connection status information upon connecting internet to home network and method thereof - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a data access method at the time of Internet connection by using a registration device for data access via the Internet, and to a user connected to the Internet as a registration device and a controller connected thereto. It is possible to simply send a command to the registration device without going through the access process, and quickly and simply respond to the user information about the devices currently connected to the user through a database search.

Description

ACCESSING APPARATUS OF APPLIANCE CONNECTION STATUS INFORMATION UPON CONNECTING INTERNET TO HOME NETWORK AND METHOD THEREOF}

The present invention relates to an apparatus and method for allowing a remote device to easily recognize a device connected to a home network by using a registration device having device information connected to the home network in accessing a home network through the Internet.

Recently, with the introduction and development of the Internet, products of the home network based on the Internet are being developed one after another. The operating characteristics of these products are that each device is connected to the IEEE 1394 interface, which is a kind of digital interface, and each device has a unique Internet Protocol (IP) address. Each device connected to the network is identified by its own IP address, and data and command transfers take place via the IEEE interface.

1 is a view showing a device performing a controller function when a home network is connected to the Internet from a conventional home network device. Device identification in home network devices is performed using IP addresses, and data and commands are based on IEEE 1394. When accessing a home network through the Internet, a device that performs access control between the home network and the Internet network identifies devices currently connected to the home network by a discovery process defined in IEEE1394.

The discovery is performed by the following operation.

A device that performs access control with the Internet network executes IEEE1394 Asynchronous Read several times to read configuration ROM of a device connected to the home network to obtain information about the connected device. Repeat this process for all devices in your home network.

Afterwards, the device which performs the access control with the Internet network which has obtained the connection device information of all the connected devices is shown to the user through the Internet network and prepared to receive the action from the user. After that, it operates as a home network according to a user's command.

In the conventional home network apparatus as described above, when the user connects to the home network through the Internet, the user may acquire information on the access device by performing a discovery process defined in IEEE1394. Asynchronous read is an error-prone process that increases the likelihood that a home network will cause an error. In addition, since the operation takes a long time to perform discovery for all the connected devices, the user has to wait for a response on the Internet.

Accordingly, an object of the present invention is to implement a digital interface-based data access process in a simpler and easier way when controlling a device through the Internet as described above.

1 shows a conventional data access apparatus via the Internet.

Figure 2 shows a data access device using a registration device when connecting to the Internet of the present invention.

* Description of the symbols for the main parts of the drawings *

10: Internet connection device

50: Internet connection device

60: registration device

61: software element

And that Internet connection when the data access device of the present invention receives the user command from the Internet and transmitted to the home network device, a home receiving a response from the network device to provide to the user via the Internet and the home network device information controller, Receiving a user command from the controller to analyze the software elements of the device connected to the home network to obtain information on the connected device to provide a user device.

In addition, when the home network access request information is input to the home network through the Internet, the controller transmits the home network access request information to each home network device, and each home network access device is a home network that the registration device has according to the device information request of the controller. Analyzing device information from the information and transmitting the result to the controller, the controller collects the device information received from each home network and provide the user to the Internet.

The configuration of the home network device of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to FIG.

The present invention comprises a first device 100 having an internet access device for controlling access between a home network and an internet network, and a second device to an Nth device 200 connected to the home network.

Here, each home network connection device is interconnected through a digital interface. The first device 100 includes an internet access device 50 for accessing an internet network and a home network, and the internet access device 50 includes a controller for managing connection information of a device connected to a home network. do.

The registration device 60 having device information connected to the home network grasps data on devices such as an ID, device manufacturer ID, transmission type, and information type for the device from the software element 61 of the home network device. It is stored in DB (database). Each software element 61 has various control information and the like for user control.

The second home network device 200 has the same configuration as the first home network connection device except for the Internet access device 50 like the first device 100 above.

Referring to the operation of the home network device having such a configuration in detail as follows.

A series of processes in which the system processed through the Internet network, a command from a user is as to the controller and register unit (60) pieces are re-operation, first, the registration apparatus 60 is a software element 61 of the various connected devices Register. That is, elements that contain information for controlling each device are initially registered with the registration device 60 .

When an initial network implementation or a bus reset occurs, all software elements first register information about themselves with a registration device and respond to commands from outside the Internet network. The controller acts as an Internet access device, which is connected to an external Internet network and requests a list of devices connected to each device from the user side, and the controller sends a command to the registration device. The registered registration device retrieves its own database, forwards this command to other registration devices, collects the response information, and sends total information about the devices connected to the entire network to the controller. Then, the controller provides a list or information for recognizing the devices connected to the network to the user connected to the Internet from the outside based on the collected response information. In order to display more detailed information, the controller may directly contact the software elements to present specific information to the user.

That is, only the information registered in the registration apparatus without the IP can provide and control information on the devices currently connected through the Internet. In conclusion, since the specifications of the devices are initially registered in the registration device, and each device is registered in the registration device, the controller can perform the home network operation (device operation) immediately by accessing only the registration device.

As described above, the present invention is a registration device and a controller connected thereto to send a command to the registration device simply without going through the access process described in the digital interface to the user who is connected to the Internet, and then to the user quickly and simply by searching the database. It can respond to information about currently connected devices.

Claims (6)

A home network device information controller that receives a user command from the Internet and delivers the same to a home network device, receives a response from a home network device, and provides the user through the Internet, and initially registers device information. Device connection status when connecting to the Internet with a home network, comprising a HAVi registration device that receives a user command from the device, analyzes software elements of the device connected to the home network, and obtains information on the connected device and provides the information to the user. Information access device. delete The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the controller is provided in a device for controlling a connection between the Internet and a home network among devices connected to a home network. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the software element comprises middleware having control information for controlling the home network device. When the home network access request information is input to the home network through the Internet, the controller transmits the home network access request information to the home network device, and the home network access devices are pre-registered by the registration device according to the device information request of the controller. Analyzing the device information from the network information and transmitting the result to the controller, wherein the controller collects the device information received from each home network and provides the user with the Internet through the home network. How to access device connection status information when connecting 6. The method of claim 5, wherein the registration device registers software owned by each home network device when the device is connected.