CN101510089A - Electrical equipment management system, electrical equipment management server and electrical equipment management method - Google Patents

Electrical equipment management system, electrical equipment management server and electrical equipment management method Download PDF

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CN101510089A
CN101510089A CNA2008101857914A CN200810185791A CN101510089A CN 101510089 A CN101510089 A CN 101510089A CN A2008101857914 A CNA2008101857914 A CN A2008101857914A CN 200810185791 A CN200810185791 A CN 200810185791A CN 101510089 A CN101510089 A CN 101510089A
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The invention provides an electrical device management system that effectively controls internet appliances connected to home network in a home network where home appliances of various appliance manufacturers exist. The electrical device management system includes at least an electrical device having communication function, a home server connected with the electrical device via the home network, an electrical device management server that manages the home server and is connected to the home server and at least an external server that holds device data for controlling the electrical device; the electrical device management server includes a user data management section that manages information of the home server and information of registered electrical device in the home server and a first information providing section that generates information provided to the home server or the external server based on information managed by the user data management section.

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Electrical equipment management system, electrical equipment management server and electrical equipment management method
Technical field
The present invention relates to electrical equipment management system, electrical equipment management server and electrical equipment management method, more specifically, relate to electrical equipment management system, electrical equipment management server and the electrical equipment management method that management possesses the electrical equipment of communication function.
Background technology
In electrical equipment, mainly be in the home appliance that uses with family to purpose, in recent years, the home appliance that possesses communication function increases.Such home appliance is also referred to as network home appliance, and the exploitation that utilizes technology of the exploitation of network home appliance and network home appliance is underway always.
Buy the user of network home appliance, the home server of supervising the network household electrical appliances can be set within the family, home server has been connected by wired or wireless with network home appliance, thereby made up home network.In addition, be configured to and can be connected with the Internet of outside by the home network that will make up like this, the PC (personal computer) of the use mobile phone and the destination of going out etc. can carry out telemonitoring and operated from a distance to network home appliance.
Though the standardization of network home appliance ongoing communication specification is different because of manufacturer at the control method of each network home appliance.Therefore, the software that adds in home server for the Control Network household electrical appliances is also different because of manufacturer, must newly import the software that is used to control this network home appliance when newly having bought network home appliance in home server.Therefore, network home appliance in the past has been subjected to infringement at user convenience.
As the technology that addresses the above problem, for example there is patent documentation 1~3.As shown in figure 16, in the network domestic electric appliance control system 10 that patent documentation 1~3 relates to, ASP (ApplicationService Provider) server 20 is kept for whole appliance datas of Control Network household electrical appliances 31a, 31b, 31c unifiedly, and return the appliance data of home server 30 request to home server 30, even thereby under the situation of newly having bought network home appliance, also need not in home server 30, newly import the software that is used to control this network home appliance, have the effect of raising at user convenience.
[patent documentation 1] TOHKEMY 2005-346188 communique
[patent documentation 2] TOHKEMY 2005-346189 communique
[patent documentation 3] TOHKEMY 2005-346190 communique
Therefore but in network domestic electric appliance control system in the past 10 shown in Figure 16, an ASP server 20 is managed appliance data unifiedly, mixes at the household electrical appliances of various manufacturers to be difficult in the home network that exists realize.Even can in ASP server 20, manage all appliance datas in the past unifiedly, but, along with the increase of network home appliance product from now on, because the increase of appliance data number and the renewal processing of appliance data etc., the load of ASP server 20 has the possibility of increase.
There are the following problems in addition, promptly in network domestic electric appliance control system in the past 10 shown in Figure 16, can't realize to providing also of service such as home server issue new product advertisement that is arranged at each family and substandard products notices from household electrical appliances manufacturer.
Summary of the invention
Therefore, the present invention finishes in view of the above problems, the object of the present invention is to provide a kind of household electrical appliances to mix in the home network that exists, can obtain the appliance data of Control Network household electrical appliances effectively and effectively be operatively connected to network home appliance, new and improved electrical equipment management system, electrical equipment management server and the electrical equipment management method of home server in various household electrical appliances manufacturer.
In order to address the above problem, according to a viewpoint of the present invention, provide a kind of electrical equipment administrative system apparatus, it is characterized in that the electrical equipment management system comprises: at least one electrical equipment with communication function; Be connected with electrical equipment and the home server of control of electrical equipment by home network; Managing family server and be connected to the electrical equipment management server of the electrical equipment of home server; And at least one external server that is kept for the device data of control of electrical equipment, electrical equipment management server comprises: the user data management portion of the information of the electrical equipment of registering in the information of managing family server and the home server, provide portion with the first information that the information that provides to home server or external server is provided based on user data management portion information of managing, home server comprises: the first device data management portion, and its management is connected to the electrical equipment of home network and is used for the device data of control of electrical equipment; With device control portion, its device data based on the management of the first device data management portion is carried out the control relevant with electrical equipment, external server comprises: the second device data management portion, the device data that it is managed the information of electrical equipment and is used for control of electrical equipment; Provide portion with second information, the information that provides to electrical equipment management server is provided its device data based on the management of the second device data management portion.
Device control portion also can send the device data of this electrical equipment to the electrical equipment management server request when electrical equipment newly is connected to home network; The first information portion of providing also can be based on the request from device control portion, to the device data of this electrical equipment of external server request of the device data that keeps this electrical equipment.
The second information portion of providing also can generate the electrical equipment information relevant with electrical equipment of second device data management portion management, and the electrical equipment information that generates is sent to electrical equipment management server; The first information provides the home server of portion's searching, managing as the electrical equipment of the object of electrical equipment information, and sends electrical equipment information to corresponding home server.
Electrical equipment information also can comprise the device data that is updated.In addition, electrical equipment information also can comprise the information relevant with the fault of electrical equipment.Comprise in electrical equipment information under the situation of the information relevant with the fault of electrical equipment, device control portion also can generate the message of the action that stops corresponding electrical equipment after the electrical equipment information of the second information portion of providing generation has been provided home server.
In addition, when electrical equipment information comprises the information relevant with the fault of electrical equipment, device control portion also can generate the Email of the description information relevant with the fault of electrical equipment to the address of regulation after the electrical equipment information of the second information portion of providing generation is provided home server.
In addition, when electrical equipment information comprises the information relevant with the fault of electrical equipment, device control portion also can generate the speech data that is used for by the Advise By Wire information relevant with the fault of electrical equipment to the conversation object of stipulating after the electrical equipment information of the second information portion of providing generation is provided home server.
In addition, in order to address the above problem, according to other viewpoints of the present invention, a kind of electrical equipment management server is provided, it is characterized in that, this electrical equipment management server is connected with home server and at least one external server network, and above-mentioned home server is connected and control of electrical equipment with at least one electrical equipment with communication function by home network, and above-mentioned at least one external server is kept for the device data of control of electrical equipment; This electrical equipment management server comprises: user data management portion, the information of the electrical equipment of registering in the information of its managing family server and the home server; Information provides portion, and information that provides to home server or external server is provided based on user data management portion information of managing for it.
The transmission request of the device data that sends from home server when the information portion of providing also can newly be connected to home network based on electrical equipment is to the device data of this electrical equipment of external server request of the device data that keeps this electrical equipment.
The information portion of providing also externally generates the electrical equipment information relevant with electrical equipment in the server and is sent under the situation of electrical equipment management server, searching, managing is as the home server of the electrical equipment of the object of electrical equipment information, and sends electrical equipment information to corresponding home server.
In addition, in order to address the above problem, according to other viewpoints of the present invention, a kind of electrical equipment management method is provided, it is characterized in that, this electrical equipment management method is the method in the following electrical equipment management system, and this electrical equipment management system comprises: at least one electrical equipment with communication function; Be connected with electrical equipment and the home server of control of electrical equipment by home network; Managing family server and be connected to the electrical equipment management server of the electrical equipment of home server; And at least one external server that is kept for the device data of control of electrical equipment, this electrical equipment management method comprises: the step that sends the device data of the electrical equipment be used to be operatively connected to home network from home server to the electrical equipment management server request; Based on transmission request, send the step of the device data of this electrical equipment to the external server request of the device data that keeps this electrical equipment from electrical equipment management server from the device data of home server; Based on the step of asking the corresponding apparatus data are sent to electrical equipment management server from external server; The step that the device data that receives is sent to home server from electrical equipment management server; And the step that the device data that receives is registered to home server.
A kind of electrical equipment management method is provided, it is characterized in that, this electrical equipment management method is the method in the following electrical equipment management system, and this electrical equipment management system comprises: at least one electrical equipment with communication function; Be connected with electrical equipment and the home server of control of electrical equipment by home network; Managing family server and be connected to the electrical equipment management server of the electrical equipment of home server; And at least one external server that is kept for the device data of control of electrical equipment, this electrical equipment management method comprises: the step that sends the information relevant with the electrical equipment that is connected to home network from external server to electrical equipment management server; The step as the home server of the electrical equipment of the object of the information that obtains from external server has been registered in retrieval; The registration that obtains for result for retrieval as the home server of the electrical equipment of the object of information, the step that will send from electrical equipment management server from the information that external server sends; And, show step based on the information of the information that receives being connected on the electrical equipment as the object of information of the home server that receives information from electrical equipment management server.
The present invention according to above explanation, can provide a kind of household electrical appliances to mix in the home network that exists, can effectively obtain the appliance data of Control Network household electrical appliances and effectively be operatively connected to network home appliance, new and improved electrical equipment management system, electrical equipment management server and the electrical equipment management method of home server in various household electrical appliances manufacturer.
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Fig. 1 is the key diagram of the tame electric management system 100 that relates to of explanation first embodiment of the present invention.
Fig. 2 is the key diagram of the structure of the home server 110 that relates to of explanation first embodiment of the present invention.
Fig. 3 is the key diagram of an example of the information of the network home appliance that keeps of expression home server 110.
Fig. 4 is the key diagram of the structure of the network home appliance 120a that relates to of explanation first embodiment of the present invention.
Fig. 5 is the key diagram of the structure of the ASP server 130 that relates to of explanation first embodiment of the present invention.
Fig. 6 is the key diagram of an example of the data of the ASP server that relates to of expression first embodiment of the present invention 130 management.
Fig. 7 is the key diagram of the structure of the external server 150a that relates to of explanation first embodiment of the present invention.
Fig. 8 is the key diagram of an example of the data of the external server 150a management that relates to of expression first embodiment of the present invention.
Fig. 9 is the process flow diagram of the new register method of the network home appliance that relates to of explanation first embodiment of the present invention.
Figure 10 is the process flow diagram of the appliance data update method that relates to of explanation second embodiment of the present invention.
Figure 11 is the key diagram of the structure of the tame electric management system 100a that relates to of explanation the 3rd embodiment of the present invention.
Figure 12 is the process flow diagram of the information notice method of the network home appliance that relates to of explanation the 3rd embodiment of the present invention.
Figure 13 is the process flow diagram of explanation by the situation of the failure message of email notification network home appliance 120a.
Figure 14 is the process flow diagram of explanation by the situation of the failure message of Advise By Wire network home appliance 120a.
Figure 15 is the process flow diagram that explanation makes the self-braking situation of action of network home appliance 120a.
Figure 16 is the key diagram that the structure of network domestic electric appliance control system in the past is described.
Symbol description: 100,100a-family's electric management system; The 110-home server; The 111-gateway; 112-household electrical appliances control part; 113-household electrical appliances Department of Communication Force; 114-data management appliance portion; The 116-router; 120a, 120b, 120c-network home appliance; The 121-Department of Communication Force; The 122-control part; 123-data maintaining part; The 124-display panel; The 130-ASP server; The 131-Department of Communication Force; 132-authentication processing portion; The 133-service provides portion; 134-user data management portion; 150a, 150b, 150c-external service; The 151-Department of Communication Force; The 152-service provides portion; 153-data management appliance portion; The 180-external network; The 310-signal conditioning package; The 320-mobile phone; The 330-SIP server; The 340-IP phone.
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Followingly preferred forms of the present invention is elaborated with reference to accompanying drawing.In addition, in this instructions and accompanying drawing, for having the inscape that identical function constitutes in fact, the repetitive description thereof will be omitted by additional same-sign.
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At first, the tame electric management system that first embodiment of the present invention is related to describes.Fig. 1 is the key diagram that the tame electric management system 100 that first embodiment of the present invention relates to is described.Below, use Fig. 1 that the tame electric management system 100 that first embodiment of the present invention relates to is described.
As shown in Figure 1, the tame electric management system 100 that relates to of first embodiment of the present invention comprises home server 110, network home appliance 120a, 120b, 120c, ASP server 130 and external server 150a, 150b, 150c and constitutes.
Home server 110 is connected by network between wireless or wired and network home appliance 120a, 120b, the 120c, is that basis is from the user's of tame electric management system 100 request Control Network household electrical appliances 120a, the device of 120b, 120c.In addition, home server 110 to be constituting with such external network 180 ways of connecting in the Internet, can and other install transmission and the reception of for example carrying out data between external server 150a, 150b, the 150c etc.Structure to home server 110 is described in detail hereinafter.
Network home appliance 120a, 120b, 120c are the home appliances that has communication function separately.If enumerate an example of home appliance, TV, air-conditioning, light fixture, built-in hard disk type video record playback equipment etc. then arranged with communication function.In Fig. 1, network home appliance 120a is represented as ligthing paraphernalia (ligthing paraphernalia that C company makes) as air-conditioning (air-conditioning that B company makes), network home appliance 120c as TV (TV that A company makes), network home appliance 120b.Network home appliance 120a, 120b, 120c are connected by wireless or wired network that carries out with home server 110, are controlled from the user's of tame electric management system 100 request by home server 110 bases.Structure to network home appliance 120a, 120b, 120c is described in detail hereinafter.In addition, the number with network home appliance in Fig. 1 is illustrated as 3, but is not limited thereto example in the present invention, and this point is self-evident.
ASP server 130 is the requests that have according to from the user of tame electric management system 100, ask appliance data to external server 150a, 150b, 150c, and with the appliance data the obtained device to the function of home server 110 transmissions.ASP server 130 is connected to external network 180, can and constitute the handing-over of carrying out data between the home server 110 that can be connected to external network 180 equally.Structure to ASP server 130 is described in detail hereinafter.
External server 150a, 150b, 150c are arranged at each household electrical appliances manufacturer that makes network home appliance or the server of being managed by each household electrical appliances manufacturer, are the devices that is kept for Control Network household electrical appliances 120a, 120b, the necessary appliance data of 120c. External server 150a, 150b, 150c are connected respectively to external network 180, can and constitute the handing-over of carrying out data between the ASP server 130 that can be connected to external network 180 equally.In view of the above, external server 150a, 150b, 150c can send appliance data to ASP server 130 according to obtaining request from the appliance data of ASP server 130.
In the present embodiment, manage the appliance data that A company makes among the external server 150a unifiedly, manage the appliance data that B company makes among the external server 150b unifiedly, manage the appliance data that C company makes among the external server 150c unifiedly.Therefore, appliance data about network home appliance 120a (televisor that A company makes) is managed by external server 150a, appliance data about network home appliance 120b (air-conditioning that B company makes) is managed by external server 150b, is managed by external server 150c about the appliance data of network home appliance 120c (ligthing paraphernalia that C company makes).Structure to external server 150a, 150b, 150c is described in detail hereinafter.
In the tame electric management system 100 that constitutes in the above described manner, when network home appliance 120a, 120b, 120c arrive family's server 110 by home-network linkups, for from home server 110 Control Network household electrical appliances 120a, 120b, 120c, home server 110 is kept for the data (appliance data) of Control Network household electrical appliances 120a, 120b, 120c respectively.
More than use Fig. 1 that the tame electric management system 100 that first embodiment of the present invention relates to has been described.Then, the structure of the home server 110 that first embodiment of the present invention is related to describes.
Fig. 2 is the key diagram that the structure of home server 110 that first embodiment of the present invention is related to describes.Below use the structure of the home server 110 that Fig. 2 relates to first embodiment of the present invention to describe.
As shown in Figure 2, the home server 110 that relates to of first embodiment of the present invention comprises gateway 111, household electrical appliances control part 112, household electrical appliances Department of Communication Force 113 and data management appliance portion 114 and constitutes.
Gateway 111 is to be used for the device that is connected with the router one 16 that is connected to external network 180.Can carry out being connected between home network and the external network by gateway 111.
Household electrical appliances control part 112 is or carries out from explanation or the operational order that generation is used for Control Network household electrical appliances 120a, 120b, 120c or the device of asking appliance datas to ASP server 130 of the message of network home appliance 120a, 120b, 120c and 130 transmissions of ASP server.
Household electrical appliances Department of Communication Force 113 be carry out and as home network registration, network home appliance 120a, the 120b that is connected to home server 110, the communicating devices between the 120c.The operational order that is generated by household electrical appliances control part 112 sends to network home appliance 120a, 120b, 120c by household electrical appliances Department of Communication Force 113.
Data management appliance portion 114 is devices that management is used for the appliance data of Control Network household electrical appliances 120a, 120b, 120c.When new network home appliance is connected to home server 110, when having the renewal of appliance data etc., the appliance data that please look for novelty from home server 110.Home server 110 utilizes the appliance data request, can obtain appliance data from external server 150a, 150b, 150c via ASP server 130, and the appliance data of obtaining is managed by data management appliance portion 114.
Fig. 3 is the key diagram of an example of the network home appliance information that keeps of expression home server 110.The information that home server 110 will register to the network home appliance of home network for example keeps with table shown in Figure 3.Fig. 3 is illustrated in the home server 110, with table keep as the title of the household electrical appliances identification id that is used for the information of recognition network household electrical appliances, network home appliance and represent with network home appliance between the communications status (being connected/disconnected) of communications status.
In addition, preferably, the network home appliance information that home server 110 keeps is kept for the household electrical appliances identification id of recognition network household electrical appliances at least.In addition, about the household electrical appliances identification id, can set up at least can unique definite manufacturer and the coding rule of model, also can use the intrinsic numbering in the whole world as MAC (MediaAccess Control) address.In example shown in Figure 3, the numbering that the household electrical appliances identification id uses is based on at least can unique definite manufacturer and the coding rule set up of the mode of model.
More than use Fig. 2 that the structure of the home server 110 that first embodiment of the present invention relates to has been described.Then, the structure of the network home appliance 120a that first embodiment of the present invention is related to describes.
Fig. 4 is the key diagram of the structure of the network home appliance 120a that relates to of explanation first embodiment of the present invention.Below, use Fig. 4 describes the structure of the network home appliance 120a that first embodiment of the present invention relates to.
As shown in Figure 4, the network home appliance 120a that relates to of first embodiment of the present invention comprises Department of Communication Force 121, control part 122, data maintaining part 123 and display panel 124 and constitutes.
Department of Communication Force 121 be and home server 110 between carry out the device of message.Network home appliance 120a is connected by wireless or cable network with home server 110, can and home server 110 between carry out message.
Control part 122 is devices of carrying out the various processing of network home appliance 120a.For example have as various processing network home appliance 120a, the respective handling of the operation of (not shown) such as various buttons that the telepilot of the main body of network home appliance 120a or operational network household electrical appliances 120a etc. go up to be provided with, and at the processing from the message of home server 110.
Data maintaining part 123 be storage be used for recognition network household electrical appliances 120a information and and home server 110 between the device of information such as communications status.As the information that is used for recognition network household electrical appliances 120a, be preferably household electrical appliances identification id shown in Figure 3.About the household electrical appliances identification id, can set up at least can unique definite manufacturer and the coding rule of model, also can use the intrinsic numbering in the whole world as the MAC Address.
Display panel 124 is to show that the information relevant with network home appliance 120a is to notify user's device.For example have as display panel 124 content displayed, because the control and treatment of control part 122 has produced the content that certain should mistake when wrong etc. in network home appliance 120a.Therefore in the present embodiment, network home appliance 120a is a TV, as display panel 124, can be the liquid crystal panel, plasma display, organic EL display panel etc. of show image.
In addition, only lifting network home appliance 120a among Fig. 4 is that example is illustrated, and other network home appliances 120b and 120c also comprise same structure, and this point is self-evident.
More than use the structure of the network home appliance 120a that Fig. 4 relates to first embodiment of the present invention to be illustrated.Then, the structure of the ASP server 130 that first embodiment of the present invention is related to describes.
Fig. 5 is the key diagram that the structure of ASP server 130 that first embodiment of the present invention is related to describes.Below use the structure of the ASP server 130 that Fig. 5 relates to first embodiment of the present invention to describe.
As shown in Figure 5, the ASP server 130 that relates to of first embodiment of the present invention comprises Department of Communication Force 131, authentication processing portion 132, service provides portion 133 and user data management portion 134 and constitutes.
Department of Communication Force 131 is to be connected with external network 180, and external device (ED) for example carries out the device of data handing-over between home server 110 or external server 150a, 150b, the 150c.
Authentication processing portion 132 is the user during from the operational network household electrical appliances such as PC of the portable terminal or the destination of going out, and is used to judge whether this user has the device of user authentication process of the operating right of network home appliance.
Service provides portion 133 to exist when obtaining request from the appliance data of home server 110, or when having event notices such as appliance data renewal from each household electrical appliances manufacturer, carries out with these requests or notifies the device of corresponding processing.
User data management portion 134 is devices of managing data essential when carrying out authentification of user in authentication processing portion 132.Essential data for example have when carrying out authentification of user, the address of the home server that unique definite user's data, each user have, discern the data etc. of the network home appliance of registration in the home server that each user has (be connected to home server and can control by home network).
Fig. 6 is the key diagram that is illustrated in the ASP server 130 that first embodiment of the invention relates to by the example of the data of user data management portion 134 management.As shown in Figure 6, in the present embodiment, in the user data management portion 134, with table keep unique definite user user ID, have the address (IP address or MAC Address) of the home server that the user of each user ID has, and household electrical appliances identification id with the network home appliance of registering in the home server that the user of each user ID has.By keeping above-mentioned data, ASP server 130 can be after the external server of household electrical appliances manufacturer management have been notified processing at specific household electrical appliances, by user data management portion 134 retrieve user data, notified information with the expression external server, notified to the home server of having registered the corresponding network household electrical appliances at the processing of this network home appliance.
In addition, also can connect household electrical appliances manufacturer data server 140 in the ASP server 130.Household electrical appliances manufacturer data server 140 is in order to obtain appliance data from external server 150a etc. and keep the device of the address information of external server 150a etc.For example, household electrical appliances manufacturer data server 140 under the situation of the new registration request of sending network home appliance from home server 110, is retrieved when obtaining the address of external server of the appliance data with this network home appliance.In addition, the present invention is not limited thereto example, also the address information of external server 150a etc. can be remained on the inside of ASP server 130.
More than use the structure of the ASP server 130 that Fig. 5 relates to first embodiment of the present invention to be illustrated.Then, the structure of the external server 150a that first embodiment of the present invention is related to describes.
Fig. 7 is the key diagram that the structure of external server 150a that first embodiment of the present invention is related to describes.Below, use Fig. 7 describes the structure of the external server 150a that first embodiment of the present invention relates to.
As mentioned above, external server 150a is arranged at each household electrical appliances manufacturer that makes network home appliance or the server of being managed by each household electrical appliances manufacturer.As shown in Figure 7, the external server 150a that relates to of first embodiment of the present invention comprises Department of Communication Force 151, service provides portion 152 and data management appliance portion 153 and constitutes.
Department of Communication Force 151 is to be connected with external network 180, and external device (ED) for example carries out the device of data handing-over between home server 110 or the ASP server 130.
Portion 152 is provided is the processing processing of request of carrying out at from ASP server 130 in service, and when having change in the appliance data to the device of the processing of ASP server 130 notice changes etc.
Data management appliance portion 153 is devices of the essential appliance data of the control of the network home appliance made of management our company.Fig. 8 is illustrated among the external server 150a that first embodiment of the present invention relates to, and data management appliance portion 153 is with the key diagram of an example of the data of the format management of table.Situation about representing in Fig. 8 is that the data of data management appliance portion 153 management comprise the household electrical appliances identification id of unique recognition network household electrical appliances and the appliance data of Control Network household electrical appliances.External server 150a is by managing appliance data in mode shown in Figure 8, after receiving that from ASP server 130 appliance data is obtained request, can from table shown in Figure 8, extract appliance data based on this request, and return the appliance data of extraction to ASP server 130.
In addition, only lifting external server 150a among Fig. 7 is that example is illustrated, and also comprises the structure identical with structure shown in Figure 7 among external server 150b, the 150c, and this point is self-evident.
More than use the structure of the external server 150a that Fig. 7 relates to first embodiment of the present invention to be illustrated.Then, about the household electrical appliances management method that first embodiment of the present invention relates to, illustrate the new register method when in home server 110, newly registering network home appliance.
Fig. 9 is the process flow diagram that the new register method of network home appliance that first embodiment of the present invention is related to describes.Below, use Fig. 9 describes the new register method of the network home appliance that first embodiment of the present invention relates to.At this, illustrate the new register method when the new registration of network home appliance 120a got home front yard server 110.
At first, if network home appliance 120a newly has been connected to home server 110 (step S102), then, network home appliance 120a generates the new registration registration request newly of asking and be somebody's turn to do and is used for home server 110 is asked newly to register as network home appliance in control part 122, and from the new registration request (step S104) of Department of Communication Force 121 to home server 110 transmission generations.At this moment, the information that from the new registration request that network home appliance 120a sends, comprises the household electrical appliances identification id of the network home appliance 120a that will newly register.
Home server 110 if receive new registration request from network home appliance 120a, judges then whether the household electrical appliances identification id of network home appliance 120a has been registered in (step S106) in the home server 110.If the result who judges is the household electrical appliances identification id of network home appliance 120a have been registered and finish, then this information is returned to network home appliance 120a from home server 110, and finish new registration process.On the other hand, be that the appliance data that generates network home appliance 120a in the electric control portion 112 that is in is obtained request (step S106) under the household electrical appliances identification id of the network home appliance 120a situation about not being registered in the result who judges.The reason that the appliance data of generation network home appliance 120a is obtained request is that essential appliance data does not exist in home server 110 for Control Network household electrical appliances 120a.In addition, the obtaining in the request of the appliance data that generates at step S106 except the information of the household electrical appliances identification id of the network home appliance 120a that will newly register, can also comprise the user's who uses home server 110 user ID.
Generated the request that obtains of the appliance data of network home appliance 120a in the electric control portion 112 if be in, then the request that obtains with appliance data sends (step S108) via gateway 111 and router one 16 to ASP server 130.
If ASP server 130 has received from the request that obtains of the appliance data of home server 110 transmissions, then in user data management portion 134, will register (step S110) accordingly from home server 110 household electrical appliances identification id that sends and the user ID that has the user of home server 110.If the registration of household electrical appliances identification id in ASP server 130 finishes, then, retrieve the appliance data of the manufacturer corresponding and obtain with server (appliance data server) (step S112) with this household electrical appliances identification id in order to obtain the appliance data that is used to control network home appliance 120a with this household electrical appliances identification id.Appliance data is obtained with the address of server and can the form with database be kept in the inside of ASP server 130, also other server can be prepared as database server in addition.In the present embodiment, as the appliance data server, in household electrical appliances manufacturer data server 140, keep appliance data to obtain the address of using server household electrical appliances manufacturer data server 140.And, behind ASP server 130 retrieval household electrical appliances manufacturer data servers 140, obtain appliance data and obtain the address of using server.
In addition, in order to obtain appliance data, also can be from the external server of ASP server 130 sequential search household electrical appliances manufacturers.At this, suppose that the appliance data that is used for Control Network household electrical appliances 120a is stored in external server 150a.If found to have the server of the appliance data that is used for Control Network household electrical appliances 120a, 130 of ASP servers provide in service and generate the appliance data request message in the portion 133, and the appliance data request message that generates is sent (step S114) from Department of Communication Force 131 to external server 150a.The information that the request message of the appliance data that sends from ASP server 130, comprises the household electrical appliances identification id of the network home appliance of asking appliance data.
Receive the household electrical appliances identification id that comprises the external server 150a identification message of request message of appliance data from ASP server 130, and the retrieval appliance data (step S116) corresponding with the household electrical appliances identification id.Particularly, if external server 150a receives the request message of appliance data, then provide the household electrical appliances that comprise in the identification message in the portion 152 identification id, use the household electrical appliances identification id of having discerned to extract 153 appliance datas management, corresponding with the household electrical appliances identification id by data management appliance portion in service.
If the retrieval of appliance data finishes in step S116, external server 150a then sends (step S118) with appliance data to the ASP of the request message that has sent appliance data server 130.The ASP server 130 that receives appliance data sends (step S120) with the appliance data that receives to the home server 110 of the request that obtains of the appliance data that has sent network home appliance 120a.
The home server 110 that receives appliance data registers to (step S122) in the data management appliance portion 114 with the appliance data that receives.If the registration of appliance data finishes, 110 information (step S124) that finished to the new registration of network home appliance 120a notice appliance data in home server 110 of home server.After network home appliance 120a received the new registration end notification of appliance data, the new registration of network home appliance 120a in home server 110 finished (step S126), can utilize network home appliance 120a via home network.
More than use Fig. 9 that the new register method of the network home appliance that first embodiment of the present invention relates to has been described.In addition, when network home appliance 120a is the household appliances that also can use as individuality (for example ligthing paraphernalia etc.) under can't be via the situation of network utilisation, even new registration process shown in Figure 9 does not finish, just can't carry out utilization, also can utilize as the household appliances individuality via home network.
As described above, first embodiment of the invention, the server that the appliance data decentralized configuration of all household electrical appliances manufacturers of in the past being kept by the ASP server is had or managed by household electrical appliances manufacturer to each household electrical appliances manufacturer.Therefore, mix in the home network that exists at the household electrical appliances of various household electrical appliances manufacturer, ASP server 130 replaces home servers 110 to obtain appliance data from external server 150a, 150b, 150c.And home server 110 receives the appliance data that ASP server 130 is obtained, and registers appliance data automatically in home server 110, and the user need not manually carry out the complexity setting to set appliance data thus, just can utilize network home appliance via home network.
In addition, first embodiment of the invention, ASP server 130 need not be managed the appliance data of each household electrical appliances manufacturer unifiedly, therefore can alleviate the load of the ASP server 130 that is caused by the increaseization of household appliances and the renewal processing of appliance data etc.
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In first embodiment of the present invention, be that the center is illustrated with method with the new registration of appliance data in home server of network home appliance.In second embodiment of the present invention, under the situation of the appliance data of having registered network home appliance in home server, the tame electric management system and the household electrical appliances management method that appliance data are updated to latest data describe.
The structure of the tame electric management system that second embodiment of the present invention relates to is identical with the structure of the tame electric management system 100 that first embodiment of the present invention relates to, and therefore omits detailed explanation.Then, about the household electrical appliances management method that second embodiment of the present invention relates to, the appliance data update method that is updated to latest data with the appliance data with network home appliance is that example describes.
Figure 10 is the process flow diagram of the appliance data update method that relates to of explanation second embodiment of the present invention.Below, use Figure 10 that the appliance data update method that second embodiment of the present invention relates to is described.In addition, at this, be that example describes with the situation of upgrading the appliance data of network home appliance 120a from external server 150a as the server of the manufacturer of network home appliance 120a.
Appliance data at network home appliance 120a is updated, will exists under the situation of upgrading this message to home server 110 notices of registration network home appliance 120a, and at first the service by external server 150a provides portion 152 to generate the update inquiry information (step S202) of appliance data.Then, send the update inquiry information (step S204) that the appliance data of portion's 152 generations is provided by service to ASP server 130 from external server 150a, in the update inquiry information of appliance data, comprise the household electrical appliances identification id of the network home appliance (is network home appliance 120a at this) that will upgrade and the appliance data that is updated.
ASP server 130, if external server 150a receives the update inquiry information of appliance data, the information that then keeps household electrical appliances identification id that comprises in the update inquiry information of the appliance data receive and the appliance data that is updated, by the user data of user data management portion 134 management and the household electrical appliances identification id that has received, retrieve the address (step S206) of the user's who has corresponding network home appliance home server by contrast.At this, the service supposed provides the result for retrieval in the portion 133 to be, as the home server of having registered network home appliance 120a, home server 110 is corresponding servers.
To the home server that has corresponding network home appliance 110 as the result for retrieval of step S206, notice has been sent appliance data from external server 150a this situation of update inquiry information (step S208).The home server 110 that receives notice is confirmed the update inquiry information (step S210) of the appliance data that sends from household electrical appliances manufacturer, will expression home server 110 can upgrade the message acknowledgment of this situation of appliance data and give ASP server 130 (step S212).
At this moment, also can send notice to network home appliance 120a, make on display panel 124 grades of network home appliance 120a to show that the update request of expression appliance data has been sent out the message of this situation from home server 110.By sending such notice to network home appliance 120a, the user can confirm content displayed on the display panel 124 of network home appliance 120a.And, also can allow the user judge whether renewable appliance data after, will expression home server 110 can upgrade the message acknowledgment of this situation of appliance data and give ASP server 130.
ASP server 130 receives the message that can upgrade appliance data that sends from home server 110, affirmation sends the appliance data (step S216) that keeps among the above-mentioned steps S206 for the home server 110 of ASP server 130 from reply (the step S214) of home server 110 to the message acknowledgment that can upgrade appliance data.Home server 110 registers to (step S218) in the data management appliance portion 114 with the appliance data that ASP server 130 sends.After registering to the appliance data that is updated in the home server 110, finish a series of processing.
More than use Figure 10 that the appliance data update method that second embodiment of the present invention relates to is illustrated.
As described above, second embodiment of the invention, the household electrical appliances manufacturer that makes network home appliance can send the update request of appliance data to the home server that is arranged at each family by utilizing the user data of the network home appliance of registration in the ASP server 130.In view of the above, because one side of household electrical appliances manufacturer need not managing personal information, so need not bear the risk relevant with protecting personal information.In addition, one side of household electrical appliances manufacturer does not keep personal information can remain last state with being arranged at the appliance data of registering in the home server of each family yet.In addition, owing to send up-to-date appliance data automatically, whether be updated, can utilize the function of appending etc. simply by the appliance data renewal so the user need not confirm appliance data from one side of household electrical appliances manufacturer.
(the 3rd embodiment)
In the 3rd embodiment of the present invention, tame electric management system and the household electrical appliances management method of notifying the information (for example, the advertisement of new product or failure message etc. being arranged) of the network home appliance that uses at the user to the user effectively are described.
Figure 11 is the key diagram of the structure of the tame electric management system 100a that relates to of explanation the 3rd embodiment of the present invention.Below, use Figure 11 that the structure of the tame electric management system 100a that the 3rd embodiment of the present invention relates to is described.
As shown in figure 11, the tame electric management system 100a that relates to of the 3rd embodiment of the present invention comprises home server 110, network home appliance 120a, 120b, 120c, ASP server 130, external server 150a, 150b, 150c, signal conditioning package 310, mobile phone 320, sip server 330 and IP phone 340 and constitutes.Wherein, the device that illustrates in home server 110, network home appliance 120a, 120b, 120c, ASP server 130 and external server 150a, 150b, 150c and first embodiment of the present invention is identical, omits detailed explanation at this.
Signal conditioning package 310 that the 3rd embodiment of the present invention relates to and mobile phone 320 constitute in manufacturer and have notified under the situation of information of the network home appliance that uses at the user, can receive these information from home server 110.In addition, sip server 330 is based on SIP (SessionInitiation Protocol), constitutes in manufacturer to have notified under the situation of information of the network home appliance that uses at the user, notifies to user's IP phone 340.
In the present embodiment, the information notice of signal conditioning package 310 and mobile phone 320 is undertaken by send Email.Therefore, though not shown among Figure 11, the mail server that preferably is used to send mail is connected with external network 180.
More than use Figure 11 that the structure of the tame electric management system 100a that the 3rd embodiment of the present invention relates to has been described.Then, the household electrical appliances management method that relates to about the 3rd embodiment of the present invention is that example describe from manufacturer to the information notice method of user notification with information that will be relevant with network home appliance.
Figure 12 is the process flow diagram of explanation the 3rd embodiment of the present invention information notice method that relate to, network home appliance.Below use Figure 12 that the 3rd embodiment of the present invention information notice method that relate to, network home appliance is described.The following describes from the external server 150a of household electrical appliances manufacturer notice at as under the situation of the information of the fault of the network home appliance 120a of the product of this household electrical appliances manufacturer the information notice method of network home appliance.
Under the situation of notice, at first in the external server 150a of household electrical appliances manufacturer, generate substandard products notification messages (step S302) at the information of the fault of network home appliance 120a.Comprise household electrical appliances identification id in the substandard products notification message that in this step S302, generates as the network home appliance 120a of substandard products.After generating the substandard products notification message, the notification message that generates is sent to ASP server 130 (step S304).
Received the household electrical appliances identification id that comprises in the ASP server 130 identification substandard products notification messages from the substandard products notification message of external server 150a, the home server (step S306) of the network home appliance with corresponding household electrical appliances identification id has been registered in retrieval from the user data of ASP server 130 management.As the result of retrieval, ASP server 130 sends substandard products notification messages (step S308) to the home server 110 of having registered the network home appliance with corresponding household electrical appliances identification id.
Home server 110, if received the substandard products notification message that sends from ASP server 130, then discern the household electrical appliances identification id that comprises in the substandard products notification message, confirm registered network home appliance 120a (step S310) in home server 110 with corresponding household electrical appliances identification id.If the registered network home appliance 120a that has found fault in home server 110 then represents to find among the network home appliance 120a information of fault to user notification.About notice to the user, for example can on the display panel 124 of network home appliance 120a, show from the substandard products notification message of external server 150a transmission and notify, but in order to notify the user more reliably, also can be by from home server 110 send Emails or the notice of phoning.
Figure 13 is that explanation is for the failure message to user notification network home appliance 120a, from the process flow diagram of the situation of home server 110 send Emails.In step S310, if in home server 110, confirmed the registered network home appliance 120a that finds fault in home server 110, then, generate the Email (step S312) that the information of fault is found in the record expression in the inside (for example the household electrical appliances control part 112) of home server 110.The statement that the Email that step S312 generates is put down in writing preferably illustrates the statement of the content of fault, generates in the electric control portion 112 that for example is in to record and narrate " fault of audiovisual reservation to have taken place among the 40 type LCD TV AB-40ABC (production code member) of A company normally to carry out.Details please be seeked advice from manufacturer " Email of such statement.
With the Email that step S312 generates, specify the e-mail address of the user of registration in the home server 110 and send (step S314, S316) as the receiver.In addition, also can record and narrate the household electrical appliances identification id of network home appliance 120a in the Email that step S312 generates.The user of network home appliance 120a, receive the Email (step S320) that sends from home server 110 by receiving with signal conditioning package 310, can confirm the fault of network home appliance 120a from the Email (step S318) of home server 110 transmissions or with mobile phone 320.
In addition, though not shown among Figure 13, the Email that sends from home server 110 server via e-mail is sent to signal conditioning package 310 or mobile phone 320.
Figure 14 illustrates for the fault to user notification network home appliance 120a, gets the process flow diagram of the situation of phone from home server 110.In step S310, if in home server 110, confirmed in home server 110, to register the network home appliance 120a that finds fault, then be used for by the speech data (step S322) of voice to the failure message of user notification network home appliance 120a in the generation of the inside (for example the household electrical appliances control part 112) of home server 110.The speech data that step S322 generates preferably illustrates the speech data of the content of fault, for example generates " fault of audiovisual reservation to have taken place among the 32 type LCD TV AA-32BCD (production code member) of A company normally to carry out.Details please be seeked advice from manufacturer " such speech data.
If in step S322, generated speech data, the connection request (step S323) that sends at IP phone 340 to sip server 330 from home server 110 then, sip server 330 sends connection requests (step S324) to IP phone 340.In addition, for example carry out the identification of the IP phone in the sip server 330 with the form of " SIP:xxx@xxx.com " such URI (Uniform Resource Identifier).Therefore, in order to utilize phone, also can in home server 110, keep discerning the information of IP phone 340 by the failure message of voice to user notification network home appliance 120a.
The 340 pairs of sip servers of IP phone 330 that receive connection request are temporarily replied (step S325) in sending and calling out, and sip server 330 sends to home server 110 and temporarily reply (step S326) in the calling of IP phone 340.And, the telephone receiver (for example pick up the telephone receiver) of user by taking IP phone 340, send reply (step S327) at phone to sip server 330, sip server 330 sends reply (step S328) from IP phone 340 to home server 110.
Home server 110 sends reply (the step S329) that confirms conversation foundation based on the reception of replying from IP phone 340 to sip server 330, and sip server 330 sends from the affirmation of family's server 110 to IP phone 340 and replys (step S330).Conversation between server 110 and the IP phone 340 in view of the above founds a family.
If set up conversation between home server 110 and the IP phone 340,110 of home servers with the speech data that generates among the above-mentioned steps S322 to IP phone 340 transmissions (step S331).The user hears the voice that send from home server 110 by using IP phone 340, confirms the failure message (step S332) of network home appliance 120a.
In addition, also can be that if confirmed registered network home appliance 120a with fault in the home server 110,110 of home servers stop the action of this network home appliance 120a automatically.By action is stopped automatically, the user becomes and can't use the product with fault, can improve security.
Figure 15 is the process flow diagram that explanation makes the self-braking situation of action of network home appliance 120a.In step S310, if in home server 110, confirmed the registered network home appliance 120a that finds fault in the home server 110, then, generate the stop signal (step S342) that the action that makes network home appliance 120a stops in the inside (for example the household electrical appliances control part 112) of home server 110, and the stop signal that will generate sends (step S344) to network home appliance 120a.The network home appliance 120a that receives stop signal stops action (step S344) automatically based on stop signal.
The 3rd embodiment of the present invention information notice method that relate to, network home appliance more than has been described.
As described above, according to the 3rd embodiment of the present invention, the household electrical appliances manufacturer that makes network home appliance can be to the information of the home server notice appliance data that is arranged at each family by utilizing the user data of the network home appliance of registration in the ASP server 130.In addition,, have at network home appliance under the situation of fault, the action of this network home appliance is stopped, so the user becomes and can't use the product with fault, also have the effect that can improve security according to the 3rd embodiment of the present invention.
In addition, the home server 110 that first embodiment~the 3rd embodiment relates to, ASP server 130, external server 150a, 150b, 150c about the invention described above, the computer program that is used for realizing on computers above-mentioned functions by installation, and the computer program of installing accessed in proper order and carry out with home server 110, ASP server 130, external server 150a, 150b, the built-in CPU of 150c, computing machine is worked as home server 110, ASP server 130, external server 150a, 150b, 150c.Aforementioned calculation machine program can circulate on market with form on the storage medium (for example CD-ROM) that is stored in regulation or the form of downloading via electric network.
Above with reference to description of drawings preferred forms of the present invention, but the present invention is not limited to these examples, this point is self-evident.Obviously, those skilled in the art can expect various variation or improve example, will be appreciated that these belong to technical scope of the present invention certainly in the scope of claims record.

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1. an electrical equipment management system is characterized in that, this electrical equipment management system comprises: at least one electrical equipment with communication function; The home server that is connected and controls above-mentioned electrical equipment by home network and above-mentioned electrical equipment; Manage above-mentioned home server and be connected to the electrical equipment management server of the above-mentioned electrical equipment of above-mentioned home server, and at least one external server that is kept for controlling the device data of above-mentioned electrical equipment,
Above-mentioned electrical equipment management server comprises: the user data management portion that manages the information of the above-mentioned electrical equipment of registering in the information of above-mentioned home server and the above-mentioned home server, provide portion with the first information that the information that provides to above-mentioned home server or said external server is provided based on above-mentioned user data management portion information of managing
Above-mentioned home server comprises: the first device data management portion, its management is connected to the above-mentioned electrical equipment of home network and is used to control the device data of above-mentioned electrical equipment, with device control portion, its the said equipment data based on the management of the above-mentioned first device data management portion are carried out the control relevant with above-mentioned electrical equipment
The said external server comprises: the second device data management portion, the device data that it is managed the information of above-mentioned electrical equipment and is used to control above-mentioned electrical equipment, provide portion with second information, the information that provides to above-mentioned electrical equipment management server is provided its said equipment data based on the management of the above-mentioned second device data management portion.
2. electrical equipment management system according to claim 1 is characterized in that,
The said equipment control part sends the device data of this electrical equipment to above-mentioned electrical equipment management server request when above-mentioned electrical equipment newly is connected to above-mentioned home network;
The above-mentioned first information provides portion based on the request from the said equipment control part, to the device data of this electrical equipment of said external server requests of the device data that keeps this electrical equipment.
3. electrical equipment management system according to claim 1 is characterized in that,
The above-mentioned second information portion of providing generates the electrical equipment information relevant with above-mentioned electrical equipment of above-mentioned second device data management portion management, and the above-mentioned electrical equipment information that will generate sends to above-mentioned electrical equipment management server;
The above-mentioned first information provides the above-mentioned home server of the electrical equipment of portion's searching, managing as the object of above-mentioned electrical equipment information, and sends above-mentioned electrical equipment information to corresponding above-mentioned home server.
4. electrical equipment management system according to claim 3 is characterized in that, above-mentioned electrical equipment information comprises the said equipment data that are updated.
5. electrical equipment management system according to claim 3 is characterized in that,
Above-mentioned electrical equipment information comprises the information relevant with the fault of above-mentioned electrical equipment.
6. electrical equipment management system according to claim 5 is characterized in that,
After the said equipment control part receives the above-mentioned electrical equipment information of the above-mentioned second information portion of providing generation at above-mentioned home server, generate the message of the action that stops corresponding above-mentioned electrical equipment.
7. electrical equipment management system according to claim 5 is characterized in that,
After the said equipment control part receives the above-mentioned electrical equipment information of the above-mentioned second information portion of providing generation at above-mentioned home server, the address of regulation is generated the Email of the description information relevant with the fault of above-mentioned electrical equipment.
8. electrical equipment management system according to claim 5 is characterized in that,
The said equipment control part generates the speech data that is used for by the Advise By Wire information relevant with the fault of above-mentioned electrical equipment to the conversation object of stipulating after receiving the above-mentioned electrical equipment information of the above-mentioned second information portion of providing generation at above-mentioned home server.
9. an electrical equipment management server is characterized in that,
This electrical equipment management server is connected with home server and at least one external server network, above-mentioned home server is connected with at least one electrical equipment with communication function by home network and controls above-mentioned electrical equipment, and above-mentioned at least one external server is kept for controlling the device data of above-mentioned electrical equipment;
This electrical equipment management server comprises:
User data management portion, it manages the information of the above-mentioned electrical equipment of registering in the information of above-mentioned home server and the above-mentioned home server;
Provide portion with information, information that provides to above-mentioned home server or said external server is provided based on above-mentioned user data management portion information of managing for it.
10. electrical equipment management server according to claim 9 is characterized in that,
The transmission request of the device data that sends from above-mentioned home server when above-mentioned information provides portion newly to be connected to above-mentioned home network based on above-mentioned electrical equipment is to the device data of this electrical equipment of said external server requests of the device data that keeps this electrical equipment.
11. electrical equipment management server according to claim 9 is characterized in that,
Above-mentioned information provides portion to generate the electrical equipment information relevant with above-mentioned electrical equipment in the said external server and is sent under the situation of above-mentioned electrical equipment management server, searching, managing is as the above-mentioned home server of the electrical equipment of the object of above-mentioned electrical equipment information, and sends above-mentioned electrical equipment information to corresponding above-mentioned home server.
12. an electrical equipment management method is characterized in that, this electrical equipment management method is the method in the following electrical equipment management system, and this electrical equipment management system comprises: at least one electrical equipment with communication function; The home server that is connected and controls above-mentioned electrical equipment by home network and above-mentioned electrical equipment; Manage above-mentioned home server and be connected to the electrical equipment management server of the above-mentioned electrical equipment of above-mentioned home server, and at least one external server that is kept for controlling the device data of above-mentioned electrical equipment; This electrical equipment management method comprises:
Send the step of the device data of the above-mentioned electrical equipment that is used to be operatively connected to above-mentioned home network to above-mentioned electrical equipment management server request from above-mentioned home server;
Based on transmission request, send the step of the device data of this electrical equipment to the external server request of the device data that keeps this electrical equipment from electrical equipment management server from the device data of above-mentioned home server;
Based on the step of asking the corresponding apparatus data are sent to electrical equipment management server from external server;
The step that the device data that receives is sent to above-mentioned home server from above-mentioned electrical equipment management server; And
The device data that receives is registered to the step of above-mentioned home server.
13. an electrical equipment management method is characterized in that, this electrical equipment management method is the method in the following electrical equipment management system, and this electrical equipment management system comprises: at least one electrical equipment with communication function; The home server that is connected and controls above-mentioned electrical equipment by home network and above-mentioned electrical equipment; Manage above-mentioned home server and be connected to the electrical equipment management server of the above-mentioned electrical equipment of above-mentioned home server; And at least one external server that is kept for controlling the device data of above-mentioned electrical equipment; This electrical equipment management method comprises:
Send the step of the information relevant with the above-mentioned electrical equipment that is connected to above-mentioned home network to above-mentioned electrical equipment management server from the said external server;
The step as the home server of the electrical equipment of the object of the above-mentioned information that obtains from the said external server has been registered in retrieval;
The registration that obtains for above-mentioned result for retrieval as the home server of the electrical equipment of the object of above-mentioned information, the step that will send from above-mentioned electrical equipment management server from the above-mentioned information that the said external server sends; And
On the electrical equipment of the object of the above-mentioned information of conduct that is connected to the home server that receives above-mentioned information from above-mentioned electrical equipment management server, show step based on the information of the above-mentioned information that receives.
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