TWI695621B - Method and system for controlling peripheral device via set-top box - Google Patents

Abstract

The disclosure provides a method and a system for controlling peripheral device via set-top box (STB). The method includes: binding a peripheral device with an STB to establish a binding relationship between the peripheral device and the STB; receiving a notification message from the peripheral device and forwarding the notification message to the STB based on the binding relationship; determining whether to show the notification message based on an emergency degree of the notification message; in response to determining to show the notification message, controlling a display to show the notification message; receiving a control command related to the notification message and forwarding the control command to a cloud service platform; and adjusting an operation state of the peripheral device or other peripheral device.

Description

Method and system for controlling peripheral devices through set-top box

The present invention relates to a method and system for controlling peripheral devices, and particularly to a method and system for controlling peripheral devices through a set-top box.

The existing methods for establishing a connection between the set-top box and peripheral devices are mostly based on near-end network communication technologies, such as WiFi and Bluetooth technology. The communication distance between devices has its limitations, and can only be applied to small areas. The range, such as the home environment, cannot reach the way of communicating with the remote device, and the messages communicated with each other are not different to a certain extent, which may cause too many messages to be displayed on the set-top box in a short time and affect the user’s Watching experience.

In view of this, the present invention provides a method and system for controlling peripheral devices through a set-top box, which can be used to solve the above technical problems.

The invention provides a method for controlling peripheral devices through a set-top box, which is suitable for a system including a cloud service platform, a first peripheral device and a set-top box. The method includes: binding the first peripheral device to the set-top box by the cloud service platform to establish a binding relationship between the first peripheral device and the set-top box; and receiving a notification from the first peripheral device by the cloud service platform Message, and forward the notification message to the set-top box based on the binding relationship; the set-top box decides whether to display the notification message based on the urgency of the notification message; in response to the decision to display the notification message, the set-top box controls a display to display the notification Message; a set-top box receives a control command associated with the notification message and transfers the control command to the cloud service platform; and the cloud service platform adjusts a first operating state of the first peripheral device or other peripheral devices according to the control command.

The invention provides a system for controlling peripheral devices through a set-top box, which includes a cloud service platform, a first peripheral device and a set-top box. The cloud service platform binds the first peripheral device to the set-top box to establish a binding relationship between the first peripheral device and the set-top box. The cloud service platform receives a notification message from the first peripheral device, and forwards the notification message to the set-top box based on the binding relationship. The set-top box decides whether to display the notification message based on the urgency of the notification message. In response to the decision to display the notification message, the set-top box controls a display to display the notification message. The set-top box receives a control command associated with the notification message and transfers the control command to the cloud service platform. The cloud service platform adjusts a first operating state of the first peripheral device or other peripheral devices according to the control command.

Based on the above, the method and system for controlling a peripheral device through a set-top box according to the present invention can forward the notification message from the peripheral device to the set-top box by the cloud service platform after binding the set-top box to the peripheral device. Accordingly, the set-top box can control the display to display the notification message for use after determining that the notification message needs to be notified to the user Watch. After that, the cloud service platform can control the operation status of the above peripheral devices or other peripheral devices according to the control commands from the set-top box. In this way, the present invention can notify the user of the notification message in more real time, and provides a mechanism for the user to send control commands through the remote control to control the peripheral devices.

In order to make the above-mentioned features and advantages of the present invention more obvious and understandable, the embodiments are specifically described below in conjunction with the accompanying drawings for detailed description as follows.

100: System

102: Cloud service platform

104: Set-top box

106a, 106b, 310a, 310b, 310c, 410a, 510a: peripheral devices

108: display

110: Remote control

399: User

CM: control command

NM: notification message

S210~S260: Steps

FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram of a system according to an embodiment of the invention.

2 is a method for controlling peripheral devices through a set-top box according to an embodiment of the invention.

FIG. 3 is an application scenario diagram according to the first embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a diagram of an application scenario according to a second embodiment of the invention.

FIG. 5 is an application scenario diagram according to a third embodiment of the present invention.

Please refer to FIG. 1, which is a schematic diagram of a system according to an embodiment of the present invention. As shown in FIG. 1, the system 100 includes a cloud service platform 102, a set-top box 104, and peripheral devices 106a. In this embodiment, the peripheral device 106a may be a sensing device with a signal to sense the surrounding environment, such as a gas sensor, a smoke sensor, a carbon monoxide sensor, etc., but it is not limited thereto. In addition, the peripheral device 106a may also be various Such as smart phones, GPS watches, physiological measuring devices and other electronic devices, but not limited to this.

The set-top box 104 can be used to receive digital signals and allow the connected display 108 (such as a television) to broadcast programs accordingly. Moreover, the user can control the set-top box 104 through the remote control 110 to perform operations such as volume adjustment, turntable, and adjusting the configuration of the set-top box 104 itself, but it is not limited thereto.

The cloud service platform 102 can be connected to the set-top box 104 through the Internet, and connected to the peripheral device 106a through the Narrow Band Internet of Things (NBIoT), and can be used as the set-top box 104 to communicate with the peripheral device 106a Medium. In an embodiment, the set-top box 104 and the peripheral device 106a may be registered on the cloud service platform 102 through a certain procedure. In the process of registering the set-top box 104 and the peripheral device 106a with the cloud service platform 102, the user can record the identity of the set-top box 104 and the device identity of each peripheral device 106a on the cloud service platform 102.

In an embodiment, the cloud service platform 102, the set-top box 104, and the peripheral device 106a can cooperate to execute the method for controlling the peripheral device through the set-top box proposed by the present invention, and related details will be further illustrated in FIG. 2.

Please refer to FIG. 2, which is a method for controlling peripheral devices through a set-top box according to an embodiment of the invention. The method shown in FIG. 2 can be performed by the system 100 of FIG. 1, and the details of each step of FIG. 2 are explained below with the components shown in FIG. 1.

First, in step S210, the cloud service platform 102 may bind the peripheral device 106a to the set-top box 104 to establish between the peripheral device 106a and the set-top box 104 Establish a binding relationship.

In one embodiment, if the user wants to bind the peripheral device 106a to the set-top box 104, the user can send a binding command to the set-top box 104 through the remote control 110, and the set-top box 104 can respond to the binding A command to access a device binding function of the cloud service platform 102. Correspondingly, the cloud service platform 102 can, for example, enable the set-top box 104 to control the display 108 to display a device binding page, so that the user can input information required to bind the peripheral device 106a to the set-top box 104 accordingly. In an embodiment, the aforementioned information may include the device identity and device password of the peripheral device 106a, which may be provided to the user by the manufacturer of the peripheral device 106a, and may be pre-stored in the cloud service platform 102, but the present invention may not Limited to this.

In one embodiment, the user can enter the device identity and device password of the peripheral device 106a into the device binding page through the remote controller 110, for example. After the set-top box 104 receives the device identity and device password of the peripheral device 106 a input by the user, the set-top box 104 can transfer the device identity and device password of the peripheral device 106 a to the cloud service platform 102. Then, the cloud service platform 102 can verify the correctness of the device identity and device password of the peripheral device 106a. For example, as described in the previous embodiment, since the cloud service platform 102 has recorded the device identity and device password of the peripheral device 106a, the cloud service platform 102 can determine whether the received device identity and device password of the peripheral device 106a It is consistent with the information recorded by itself. If so, the cloud service platform 102 can verify that the device identity and device password of the peripheral device 106a from the set-top box 104 are correct, and vice versa.

In one embodiment, the device identity reflected in the authentication peripheral device 106a and The device password is correct, and the cloud service platform 102 can record the correspondence between the set-top box 104 and the peripheral device 106a. The aforementioned correspondence relationship can be exemplified as Table 1 below, where "Device1" is, for example, the device identity of the peripheral device 106a, and "xxx" is, for example, the password of the peripheral device 106a, but it is not limited thereto.

Afterwards, the cloud service platform 102 may query the address (eg, IP address, MAC address, etc.) of the peripheral device 106a based on the device identity of the peripheral device 106a, and send the device password of the peripheral device 106a to the peripheral device 106a accordingly, to For confirmation by peripheral device 106a.

After the peripheral device 106a receives the device password from the cloud service platform 102, it can compare the device password with the device password recorded by itself. If the two match, the peripheral device 106a can verify that the device password from the cloud service platform 102 is correct, and vice versa. After verifying that the device password from the cloud service platform 102 is correct, the peripheral device 106a can send an authentication success message to the cloud service platform 102 accordingly. Then, the cloud service platform 102 may confirm the correspondence between the peripheral device 106a and the set-top box 104 as the binding relationship between the peripheral device 106a and the set-top box 104 based on the authentication success message.

In other embodiments, the user can also establish a binding relationship between the set-top box 104 and other peripheral devices (such as the peripheral device 106b) based on the above teachings, details of which are not repeated here.

After the binding relationship between the set-top box 104 and the peripheral device 106a is established, in step S220, the cloud service platform 102 may receive the notification message from the peripheral device 106a, and forward the notification message NM to the set-top box 104 based on the binding relationship.

In different embodiments, the notification message NM may include different content according to the appearance of the peripheral device 106a. For example, if the peripheral device 106a is a gas sensor, the notification message NM it sends may include the concentration of gas in the air, and if the peripheral device 106a is a smartphone, the notification message NM it sends may be Current power, etc., but not limited to this. In addition, the notification message NM may further include an identity information of the peripheral device 106a, a sensing attribute, an attribute value, and a sensing time stamp. The form of the notification message NM can be exemplified in Table 2 below, but it is not limited thereto.

Correspondingly, the cloud service platform 102 can query the set-top box 104 bound to the peripheral device 106a based on the notification message NM to obtain the address information (eg, IP address, MAC address, etc.) of the set-top box 104. Then, the cloud service platform 102 may forward the notification message NM to the set-top box 104 based on the address information.

Next, in step S230, the set-top box 104 may decide whether to display the notification message NM based on the urgency of the notification message NM. In one embodiment, the set-top box 104 may analyze the notification message NM to obtain the urgency of the notification message NM and determine The level to which the urgency of the notification message NM belongs. In different embodiments, the above-mentioned urgency can be slightly divided into serious, general, and other levels, but it is not limited thereto. For example, if the notification message NM shows that the gas concentration is higher than a certain threshold, the corresponding emergency level may be severe or average, that is, it belongs to the level that needs to notify the user (hereinafter referred to as the first level). For example, if the notification message NM shows that the gas concentration is approaching 0, the corresponding urgency level may be other, that is, a level that does not require user notification (hereinafter referred to as the second level).

In different embodiments, the level that reflects the urgency of the notification message NM belongs to the first level, and the STB 104 can determine that the notification message NM should be displayed. On the other hand, the level that reflects the urgency of the notification message NM belongs to the second level, and the set-top box 104 can determine that the notification message NM is not displayed, so as to prevent the user from being disturbed by unimportant notifications while viewing the display 108.

In step S240, in response to the decision to display the notification message NM, the set-top box 104 can control the display 108 to display the notification message NM. In an embodiment, the set-top box 104 may determine the display form of the display 108 to display the notification message NM based on the urgency of the notification message NM. For example, if the urgency of the notification message NM is serious, the set-top box 104 can control the display 108 to present the notification message NM in the form of a cover screen, so that the user can effectively see the notification message NM. On the other hand, if the urgency of the notification message NM is general, the set-top box 104 can control the display 108 to present the notification message NM in the form of a marquee, so as to send the notification message without excessively affecting the user's viewing of the display 108 NM informs the user, but the invention may not be limited to this.

In one embodiment, after the user sees the notification message NM displayed on the display 108, the user can send the control command CM through the remote controller 110 to adjust the operating state of the peripheral device 106a. For example, if the notification message NM shows that the gas concentration is too high, the user can send a control command CM through the remote control 110 to control the corresponding operating status of his peripheral devices, such as turning off the gas stove and/or turning the water heater on Close, but not limited to this. In different embodiments, the operating status of each peripheral device controlled by the control command CM can be set by the user, for example, as shown in Table 3 below.

In step S250, the set-top box 104 may receive the control command CM associated with the notification message NM, and transfer the control command CM to the cloud service platform 102. In step S260, the cloud service platform 102 can adjust the operating status of the peripheral device 106a or other peripheral devices (such as a gas stove and/or water heater) according to the control command CM.

In an embodiment, assuming that the peripheral devices corresponding to the control commands CM are peripheral devices such as gas stoves and water heaters, the cloud service platform 102 can issue the following commands in Tables 4 and 5 to the gas stoves and water heaters, respectively, to control Gas stove And the operation state of the water heater (for example, closed), but the present invention may not be limited to this.

In order to make the concept of the present invention more clear, several application scenarios are supplemented below for specific description.

Please refer to FIG. 3, which is an application scenario diagram according to the first embodiment of the present invention. In this embodiment, it is assumed that the peripheral device 310a is a gas sensor, and the peripheral devices 310b and 310c are a water heater and a gas stove, respectively. As shown in FIG. 3, when the peripheral device 310a senses an excessively high gas concentration, the set-top box 104 may control the display 108 to display a related notification message (eg, "abnormality: the gas concentration is too high") based on previous teachings. Correspondingly, the user can select the option of “turn off the gas stove” shown on the display 108 through the remote control 110 to generate a control command. In this case, the set-top box 104 may request the cloud service platform (not shown) to shut down the peripheral devices 310b and 310c based on the user's control commands. After receiving the control command, the cloud service platform may send instructions shown in Table 5 and Table 4 to the peripheral devices 310b and 310c, respectively, to shut down the peripheral devices 310b and 310c.

Please refer to FIG. 4, which is an application scenario diagram according to a second embodiment of the present invention. In this embodiment, it is assumed that the peripheral device 410a is a GPS watch, which can be, for example, by Children wear it to let users 399 grasp the whereabouts of children. In this scenario, the user 399 can set the movable range of the peripheral device 410a on the set-top box 104. As the child wearing the peripheral device 410a moves, the peripheral device 410a can continuously report the measured GPS position to the set-top box 104 through a cloud service platform (not shown) in the form of a notification message. The aforementioned notification message may have the form of Table 6 below, but may not be limited thereto.

If the set-top box 104 determines that the GPS position reported by the peripheral device 410a is beyond the above-mentioned movable range, the set-top box 104 can correspondingly control the display 108 to display related notification messages (for example, "Children exceed the area"), so that the user 399 can immediately Learn about children's abnormal movements.

Please refer to FIG. 5, which is an application scenario diagram according to a third embodiment of the present invention. In this embodiment, it is assumed that the peripheral device 510a is a heart rate watch, which can be worn by an elder, for example, so that the user 399 can grasp the health status of the elder. In this scenario, the user 399 can set the normal heartbeat range of the peripheral device 510a on the set-top box 104. When the elder wears the peripheral device 510a, the peripheral device 510a can continuously report the measured heartbeat number to the set-top box 104 through a cloud service platform (not shown) in the form of a notification message. If the set-top box 104 determines that the number of heartbeats reported by the peripheral device 510a has not fallen Within the normal heartbeat range, the set-top box 104 can accordingly control the display 108 to display related notification messages (for example, "elderly heart rhythm is too low"), so that the user 399 can instantly know the elders' abnormal health conditions.

In summary, the method and system for controlling a peripheral device through a set-top box according to the present invention can be used by the cloud service platform to notify notification messages (such as various types of sensing) from the peripheral device after binding the set-top box to the peripheral device Message) forwarded to the set-top box. Correspondingly, the set-top box can control the display to display the notification message in different forms for the user to view after determining that the notification message needs to be notified to the user. Afterwards, in response to the displayed control message, the user can also send control commands through the remote control, so that the cloud service platform can control the operating status of the above peripheral devices or other peripheral devices accordingly. In other words, in addition to notifying the user of the notification message in more real time, the present invention also provides a flexible mechanism for the user to control the peripheral devices through the remote control.

Although the present invention has been disclosed as above with examples, it is not intended to limit the present invention. Any person with ordinary knowledge in the technical field can make some changes and modifications without departing from the spirit and scope of the present invention. The scope of protection of the present invention shall be subject to the scope defined in the appended patent application.

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Claims (10)

A method for controlling peripheral devices through a set-top box is suitable for a system including a cloud service platform, a first peripheral device and a set-top box. The method includes: binding the first peripheral device by the cloud service platform Set at the set-top box to establish a binding relationship between the first peripheral device and the set-top box; the cloud service platform receives a notification message from the first peripheral device, and based on the binding relationship will The notification message is forwarded to the set-top box; the set-top box determines whether to display the notification message based on an urgency of the notification message; in response to deciding to display the notification message, the set-top box controls a display to display the notification Message; a control command associated with the notification message is received by the set-top box, and the control command is transferred to the cloud service platform; and the cloud service platform adjusts the first peripheral device or other peripheral devices according to the control command A first operating state. The method as described in item 1 of the patent application scope, wherein the set-top box and the first peripheral device are pre-registered on the cloud service platform, and the cloud service platform binds the first peripheral device to the machine The steps of the box include: accessing a device binding function of the cloud service platform by the set-top box in response to a binding command; receiving a device identity and a device password input by a user from the set-top box, wherein The device identity and the device password belong to the first peripheral device; the set-top box transfers the device identity and the device password to the cloud service platform; the cloud service platform verifies that the device identity and the device password are correct In response to verifying that the device identity and the device password are correct, the cloud service platform records a correspondence between the set-top box and the first peripheral device; the cloud service platform queries the first peripheral based on the device identity One address of the device, and send the device password to the first peripheral device accordingly; the first peripheral device verifies whether the device password is correct; in response to the device password being correct, the first peripheral device sends a An authentication success message to the cloud service platform; the cloud service platform confirms the corresponding relationship as the binding relationship between the first peripheral device and the set-top box based on the authentication success message. The method as described in item 1 of the patent application scope, wherein the set-top box is further bound to a second peripheral device, and the method further includes: adjusting, by the cloud service platform, the second peripheral device's A second operating state. The method as described in item 1 of the patent application scope, wherein the first peripheral device senses a surrounding environment to generate the notification message, wherein the notification message includes an identity information, a sensing attribute, a Attribute value and a sensing time stamp. The method according to item 1 of the patent application scope, wherein the step of forwarding the notification message to the set-top box based on the binding relationship includes: querying the cloud service platform to bind to the first peripheral device based on the notification message The set-top box to obtain the address information of the set-top box; and the cloud service platform forwards the notification message to the set-top box based on the address information. The method as described in item 1 of the patent application scope, wherein the step of determining whether to display the notification message based on the urgency of the notification message by the set-top box includes: analyzing the notification message by the set-top box to obtain the notification The urgency of the message; determine the level to which the urgency belongs; respond to the level belonging to a first level, determine that the notification message should be displayed; and respond to the level belonging to a second level, determine not to display the notification message. The method according to item 1 of the patent application scope, wherein the step of controlling the display of the notification message by the set-top box includes: determining a display form of the display message displayed by the display based on the degree of urgency. The method as described in item 7 of the patent application scope, wherein the display form includes a marquee or a cover screen. The method as described in item 1 of the patent application scope, wherein the control command comes from a remote control for controlling the set-top box. A system for controlling peripheral devices through a set-top box includes a cloud service platform, a first peripheral device and a set-top box, wherein: the cloud service platform binds the first peripheral device to the set-top box, Establishing a binding relationship between the first peripheral device and the set-top box; the cloud service platform receives a notification message from the first peripheral device and forwards the notification message to the set-top box based on the binding relationship ; The set-top box decides whether to display the notification message based on an urgency of the notification message; in response to deciding to display the notification message, the set-top box controls a display to display the notification message; the set-top box receives the notification associated with the notification message A control command of the message and transfer the control command to the cloud service platform; and the cloud service platform adjusts a first operating state of the first peripheral device or other peripheral devices according to the control command.

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