Detailed Description
In the following detailed description, numerous specific details are set forth in order to provide a thorough understanding of the present invention. However, it will be understood by those skilled in the art that the present invention may be practiced without these specific details. In other instances, well-known methods, procedures, components and circuits have not been described in detail so as not to obscure the present invention.
First, the system components in the present invention will be briefly described, including: a server at a network side, a user terminal, a device access point arranged under a local area network established by the router, and household appliances; the user terminal is connected with the server through the internet, and the equipment access point is connected with the server through the internet; the user terminal and the equipment access point have a binding relationship on the server, namely the server knows the IP address of the user terminal, the IP address of the equipment access point and the corresponding relationship between the user terminal and the equipment access point so as to enable the user terminal and the equipment access point to communicate with each other through the server; and the user terminal and the device access point are connected through a local area network established by the router, in which the user terminal and the device access point can communicate with each other.
As used herein, a "coded signal" is defined as an infrared remote control code, such as an infrared remote control signal emitted by a television set from a remote control of a conventional television set.
As used herein, "encoded data" is defined as network communication data that carries an encoded signal and can be transmitted over a network after the encoded signal is encapsulated, wherein other information may also be stored in the encoded data.
As used herein, an "encoded data set" is defined as a set of all encoded data for a home device.
Referring now to fig. 1, fig. 1 shows a flow diagram for transmitting control information in accordance with some demonstrative embodiments;
as shown in fig. 1, in some illustrative embodiments, a method for transmitting control information is disclosed, which is applied to a server on a network side, and the method includes:
step S101, receiving first coded data, and identifying household appliances corresponding to the first coded data and coded data sets corresponding to the household appliances;
the server stores a coding database which contains coding data sets of various types of household appliances; the coded data set, the coded data in the coded data set and the identification of the household appliance have a mapping relation; wherein, the identifier, such as device type, device model, etc., can distinguish the identifier of the device; after the server receives the first coded data, the first coded data are automatically matched in the coded database, and the identification of the household appliance to which the first coded data belong and the coded data set of the household appliance with the identification can be obtained through the matching;
in some illustrative embodiments, the first encoded data received by the server in step S101 may be directly sent to the server by the device access point, or may be sent by the device access point and forwarded to the server via the user terminal having a binding relationship with the device access point.
In some illustrative embodiments, after identifying the encoded data set, the server may further transmit the identified encoded data set to a user terminal used by the user, so that the user selects, on the user terminal, second encoded data in the encoded data set for controlling the home appliance; the method specifically comprises the following steps: the server directly sends the encoded data set to the user terminal; or the server sends the coded data set to the device access point which has binding relation with the user terminal and controls the household appliance device, and the coded data set is forwarded to the user terminal through the device access point.
And S102, according to the control requirement of the user on the household appliance, sending the second coded data in the coded data set to a device access point for controlling the household appliance.
The second encoded data is the encoded data in the encoded data set matched with the first encoded data, and may be the first encoded data or other encoded data in the encoded data set.
In some demonstrative embodiments, the second encoded data transmitted by the server to the device access point in step S102 is determined by the server according to a control command selected by the user terminal, e.g.: the server sends the identified coding data set to the user terminal, the user selects a second coding data used for controlling the household appliance in the coding data set through the user terminal, and sends the selected second coded data to the server, the server receives the second coded data and forwards the second coded data to the device access point, or after the server identifies the coding data set, receiving a message which is sent by the user terminal and contains an intelligent control instruction, analyzing the intelligent control instruction in the message by the server (wherein the intelligent control instruction is an operation action which is required by the user and is carried out by the household appliance, and the intelligent control instruction and corresponding second coding data in the coding data set have a corresponding relation), and sending the second coding data corresponding to the intelligent control instruction to the equipment access point by the server according to the corresponding relation between the intelligent control instruction and the second coding data;
in some demonstrative embodiments, the server may also receive a control instruction sent from the user terminal and forward the control instruction to the device access point to control the device access point to turn on the coded signal receiving function.
In some illustrative embodiments, after the server receives the control instruction sent by the user terminal, the server may further send a reply message to the user terminal, where the reply message is used to prompt the user to send a coded signal by pointing the remote controller of the home device to be bound to the device access point. The server may also forward the message to the user terminal through the device access point.
In some illustrative embodiments, in a scenario where the number of the device access points is multiple and the device access points respectively have a binding relationship with the user terminal, the control instruction received by the server further includes an identifier of the device access point specified by the user, which is used for the server to find the corresponding device access point and perform subsequent operations, and after receiving the first encoded data, the server establishes the binding relationship between the device access point and the home appliance device corresponding to the first encoded data, and after establishing the binding relationship, sends a binding success message to the user terminal.
In some illustrative embodiments, in addition to the binding relationship between the device access point and the user terminal that sends the control instruction, when the device access point also has a binding relationship with one or more other user terminals, the server may further determine, according to the binding relationship between the user terminal and the device access point, other user terminals that have a binding relationship with the device access point, and send the encoded data set to the other user terminals, so that after one user terminal of the plurality of user terminals that have a binding relationship with the device access point completes an operation before controlling the home appliance, the other user terminals may control the home appliance.
In some illustrative embodiments, the server provides the user terminal having a binding relationship with the device access point to download the encoded data set according to the correspondence between the home device and the encoded data set and the control relationship between the device access point and the home device. For example, a shared library is established, the encoded data set is stored in the shared library, the user terminal checks the home appliance device of the device access point in the server, and can find the encoded data set corresponding to the home appliance device in the shared library and perform downloading operation. Or, the access address of the coded data set is sent to the user terminal, and the coded data set is downloaded by providing the user to access the address by using the user terminal. After the user terminal is bound with the equipment access point, the coding data set of the household appliance equipment required by the equipment access point can be downloaded on the server to control the household appliance equipment.
In some demonstrative embodiments, the server may send a prompt to another user terminal having a binding relationship with the device access point, prompting the other user terminal to download the encoded data set.
Referring now to fig. 2, fig. 2 shows a flow diagram of transmitting control information, in accordance with some demonstrative embodiments;
as shown in fig. 2, in some demonstrative embodiments, a method of transmitting control information is disclosed, which is applied to an access point of a device, and includes:
step S201, receiving a coded signal transmitted by a remote controller of household electrical appliance equipment;
step S202, converting the received coded signal into first coded data;
step S203, sending the first encoded data to a server on the network side, so that the server identifies an encoded data set to which the first code belongs.
In some demonstrative embodiments, the transmitting of the first encoded data to the server in step S203 may include: the equipment access point directly sends the first coded data to the server; or the device access point sends the first coded data to a user terminal which has a binding relationship with the device access point, and the first coded data is forwarded to the server through the user terminal.
In some illustrative embodiments, the conversion process between the encoded data and the encoded signal specifically includes: and taking the coded signal as the content of the data packet, printing a data routing packet header required by network transmission, and encapsulating the data packet header into a data packet. Subsequently, after the device access point receives the coded data, the device access point can directly extract the coded signal in the coded data without destroying the structure of the coded signal; by the method, the structure of the equipment access point is simple, and only the network data transceiving function or the coding signal transceiving function is needed, so that the manufacturing cost is greatly reduced, and the use of a user is facilitated.
In some illustrative embodiments, after transmitting the first encoded data to the server on the network side, the method further comprises:
and step S204, receiving second coded data in the coded data set sent by the server or receiving second coded data in the coded data set sent by the user terminal. The second coding data received from the server can be suitable for the user to carry out remote control or short-distance control on the household appliance, and the second coding data received from the user terminal is suitable for the user to carry out short-distance control on the household appliance.
In some demonstrative embodiments, after the device access point receives the second encoded data, the method may further include:
and S205, the device access point extracts the coding signals in the second coding data and sends the coding signals to multiple directions to realize the control of the household appliance.
In some illustrative embodiments, before receiving the first coded signal, a control instruction from a server or a user terminal needs to be received, and the coded signal receiving function is started; or, the coded signal receiving function is always kept after the device access point is powered on.
In some illustrative embodiments, the device access point may also reply a message to the user terminal having a binding relationship with the device access point through the server, in case of starting the coded signal receiving function by receiving the control instruction sent from the server; when the device access point starts the code signal receiving function by receiving a control instruction sent by the user terminal (namely, the device access point and the user terminal are in the same local area network and communicate through the local area network), the user terminal replies a message to the device access point through the local area network, and the message is used for prompting a user to aim a remote controller of the household appliance device to be bound at the device access point to send a code signal.
Referring now to fig. 3, fig. 3 shows a flow diagram of transmitting control information, in accordance with some demonstrative embodiments;
as shown in fig. 3, in some demonstrative embodiments, a method of transmitting control information is disclosed, which is applied to a user terminal, and includes:
s302, receiving an encoded data set sent by a server on a network side or a device access point having a binding relationship with the user terminal;
receiving an encoded data set sent by the server, and directly sending the encoded data set to the user terminal for the server; the coded data set sent by the equipment access point is forwarded to the user terminal for the server through the equipment access point.
S303, selecting second coded data corresponding to the control action in the coded data set of the control object according to the control object and the control action selected by the user;
s304, directly sending the second coded data to the equipment access point or sending the second coded data to the equipment access point through the server.
The user terminal directly sends the selected second coded data to the equipment access point, and the equipment access point is controlled to send corresponding coded signals, so that the method is suitable for short-distance control; or the user terminal forwards the selected second coded data to the equipment access point through the server, and the equipment access point is controlled to send corresponding coded signals, so that the method is suitable for remote control and short-distance control.
In some demonstrative embodiments, prior to receiving the encoded data set, the method may further include:
s301, directly sending a control instruction to the equipment access point or sending the control instruction to the equipment access point through the server, wherein the control instruction is used for starting a coding signal receiving function of the equipment access point.
In some illustrative embodiments, after sending the control command, the user terminal may further receive a message replied by the server or the device access point, where the message is used to prompt the user to send a coded signal to the device access point through a remote controller of the home device.
In some demonstrative embodiments, the user terminal may further receive a device-to-device access point binding success message sent by the server before selecting the second encoded data from the encoded data set.
In some demonstrative embodiments, the binding success information received by the user terminal may also be forwarded by the server through the device access point.
In some demonstrative embodiments, after sending the control instruction, the user terminal may further receive first encoding data for identifying the home device from the device access point and forward the first encoding data to the server.
Referring now to fig. 4, fig. 4 shows a flow diagram of transmitting control information, in accordance with some demonstrative embodiments;
as shown in fig. 4, according to some illustrative embodiments, a method for transmitting control information is disclosed, which is applied to a user terminal, and the method includes:
s402, sending an intelligent control instruction corresponding to second coded data in the coded data set to a server of a network side where the coded data set is stored, and controlling the server to send the second coded data to a device access point which is in binding relation with the user terminal.
For example, the temperature adjustment human-computer interaction interface of the user terminal is provided with an up-down direction arrow, after the down direction arrow is triggered, an intelligent control instruction corresponding to the trigger is sent to the server, and the server sends corresponding second coded data in the coded data set corresponding to the intelligent control instruction to the device access point.
In some demonstrative embodiments, prior to sending the smart control instruction, the method further includes:
s401, directly sending a control instruction to the equipment access point or sending the control instruction to the server, and forwarding the control instruction to the equipment access point through the server, wherein the control instruction is used for starting a coding signal receiving function of the equipment access point.
In some demonstrative embodiments, after sending the control instruction, the method further includes: and receiving a message replied by the server or the equipment access point, wherein the message is used for prompting a user to send a coding signal to the equipment access point through a remote controller of the household appliance.
In some demonstrative embodiments, after sending the control instruction, the method further includes:
and receiving first coded data for identifying the household appliance from the device access point and forwarding the first coded data to the server.
In some demonstrative embodiments, the user terminal may be, for example, a desktop computer, a mobile computer, a laptop computer, a notebook computer, a tablet computer, a server computer, a handheld device, a PDA device (personal digital assistant), a handheld PDA device, an on-board device, an off-board device, a hybrid device (e.g., combining cellular telephone functionality with PDA device functionality), a consumer device, an on-board device, an off-board device, a mobile or portable device, a non-mobile or non-portable device, a cellular telephone, a PCS device (personal communications service device), a PDA device incorporating a wireless communication device, a mobile or portable GPS device (global positioning satellite), a DVB device (digital television broadcast device), a smaller computing device, a non-desktop computer, a "smaller form factor higher performance" (CSLL) device, An Ultra Mobile Device (UMD), an ultra mobile pc (umpc), a Mobile Internet Device (MID), "Origami" devices or computing devices, a Dynamic Component Computing (DCC) enabled device, or other device.
Referring now to FIG. 5, FIG. 5 illustrates a flow diagram for transmitting control information in accordance with some demonstrative embodiments;
as shown in fig. 5, in accordance with some demonstrative embodiments, a method of transmitting control information is disclosed, including:
s501, a user terminal sends a control instruction to a server on a network side; the control instruction carries the identification of the equipment access point appointed by the user;
s502, the server sends a control instruction to the equipment access point corresponding to the identifier, and the equipment access point is controlled to start a coded signal receiving function;
in some illustrative embodiments, after the server receives the control instruction in this step, the method may further include: replying a message to the user terminal, wherein the message is used for prompting the user terminal to send a coding signal to the equipment access point through a remote controller of the household appliance equipment;
in some demonstrative embodiments, the message replied to the user terminal by the server may be forwarded to the user terminal through the device access point.
In some illustrative embodiments, for example, the device access point automatically turns on the coded signal receiving function after being powered on, so that step S501 and step S502 may be skipped at this time, and the operation of step S503 is performed directly.
S503, the equipment access point receives the coded signal sent by the remote controller, encapsulates the coded signal into first coded data and sends the first coded data to the server;
in some illustrative embodiments, the first encoded data sent by the device access point may be sent directly to the server; or the first coded data is forwarded to the server by the user terminal;
s504, the server receives the first coded data, matches and identifies the first coded data in a database of the first coded data, identifies the type of the household appliance corresponding to the first coded data, and extracts a coded data set of the type;
in some demonstrative embodiments, the server may also establish a shared library based on the extracted encoded data set, providing a download operation to a user having a binding relationship with the device access point.
In some illustrative embodiments, the server establishes a binding relationship between the device access point and the identified home devices, facilitating management of the home devices; after the binding relationship is established, the server can also send the binding success information to the user terminal;
s505, the server sends the extracted encoded data set to the user terminal;
in some demonstrative embodiments, the server may employ transmitting the encoded data set directly to the user terminal; or the coded data set is forwarded to the user terminal by the equipment access point;
in some illustrative embodiments, the server may send the binding success information in step S504 and the encoded data set together as a data message to the user terminal by the above-mentioned manner of direct sending or forwarding.
In some illustrative embodiments, the server may further send the encoded data set to other user terminals having a binding relationship with the device access point in the aforementioned direct sending or forwarding manner, so that the other user terminals obtain the encoded data set to control the home appliance device; by the method, as long as one user terminal establishes the binding relationship with the equipment access point, other user terminals having the binding relationship with the equipment access point can achieve the purpose of controlling the household appliance without performing the operation before the step S505.
S506, the user terminal selects second coded data according to the coded data set and sends the second coded data to the equipment access point;
in some demonstrative embodiments, the second encoded data selected by the user terminal may be transmitted directly to the device access point; or by forwarding the second encoded data to the device access point via the server.
S507, the device access point receives the second coded data, extracts the coded signals in the second coded data, transmits the coded signals in multiple directions and transmits the coded signals to the household appliance;
and S508, the household appliance receives the coded signal and executes corresponding operation.
Referring now to FIG. 6, FIG. 6 shows a flow diagram for transmitting control information in accordance with some demonstrative embodiments;
as shown in fig. 6, in accordance with some demonstrative embodiments, a method of transmitting control information is disclosed, including:
s601, the user terminal sends a control instruction to the equipment access point, and the equipment access point is controlled to start a coding signal receiving function;
in some illustrative embodiments, after the device access point starts the coded signal receiving function, the device access point may also reply a message to the user terminal, where the message is used to prompt the user to send a coded signal to the device access point through a remote controller of the home appliance device and wait for receiving the coded signal;
in some demonstrative embodiments, the reply message sent by the device access point may be sent directly to the user terminal; or, the reply message is forwarded to the user terminal by the server;
in some illustrative embodiments, the device access point automatically turns on the encoded signal receiving function after being powered on, so step S601 may be skipped and the operation of step 602 may be performed directly.
S602, the equipment access point receives the coded signal sent by the remote controller, encapsulates the coded signal into first coded data and sends the first coded data to the server;
in some demonstrative embodiments, the device access point may employ transmitting the first encoded data directly to the server; or, the first coded data is sent to the server through the user terminal;
s603, the server receives the first coded data, matches and identifies the first coded data in a database of the first coded data, and identifies the identification of the household appliance corresponding to the first coded data and the coded data set corresponding to the household appliance;
in some illustrative embodiments, the server may further prompt a user having a binding relationship with the device access point to perform a downloading operation on the encoded data set according to the correspondence between the home device and the encoded data set and the control relationship between the device access point and the home device.
In some demonstrative embodiments, the server may establish a binding relationship between the device access point and the identified home device for management of the home device; after the binding relationship is established, the server can also directly send the binding success information or forward the binding success information to the user terminal through the equipment access point;
s604, the user terminal sends a message carrying the intelligent control instruction to the server;
s605, the server receives a message carrying an intelligent control instruction, and analyzes the intelligent control instruction carried in the message; the intelligent control instruction and second coded data in the coded data set have a corresponding relation, the second coded data in the corresponding coded data set are identified, and the second coded data are sent to the equipment access point;
s606, the device access point receives the second coded data, extracts the coded signals in the second coded data, transmits the coded signals in multiple directions and transmits the coded signals to the household appliance;
and S607, the household appliance receives the coded signal and executes corresponding operation.
Referring now to FIG. 7, FIG. 7 shows a block diagram of a server in accordance with the method and illustrative embodiment described above;
as shown in fig. 7, in some demonstrative embodiments, a server (e.g., server 100) is disclosed, including: a first module (for example, the first module 101) that receives first encoded data and identifies a home appliance device corresponding to the first encoded data and an encoded data set corresponding to the home appliance device; and sending a second encoded data in the encoded data set to a second module (e.g., the second module 102) that controls a device access point of the home appliance according to a control requirement of the user on the home appliance.
In some demonstrative embodiments, a first module of the server may receive the first encoded data directly from the device access point; or, receiving the first coded data sent by the device access point and forwarded by the user terminal having a binding relationship with the device access point.
In some demonstrative embodiments, the server may further include: after identifying the encoded data set corresponding to the home device, sending the encoded data set to a third module (e.g., the third module 103) of the user terminal having a binding relationship with the device access point.
In some demonstrative embodiments, the second module of the server includes: after receiving the second encoded data in the encoded data set sent by the user terminal, send the second encoded data to a fourth module (e.g., fourth module 104) of the device access point.
In some demonstrative embodiments, a third module of the server may send the encoded data set directly to the user terminal; or, the encoded data set is forwarded to the user terminal through the device access point.
In some demonstrative embodiments, the server may further include: before receiving the first encoded data, receiving a control instruction sent by a first user terminal having a binding relationship with the device access point, and forwarding the control instruction to a fifth module (e.g., the fifth module 105) of the device access point, so as to control the device access point to start an encoded signal receiving function.
In some demonstrative embodiments, the server further includes:
and after receiving the control instruction sent by the first user terminal having a binding relationship with the device access point, sending a prompt to other user terminals having a binding relationship with the device access point, and prompting the other user terminals to download a sixth module (e.g., sixth module 106) of the encoded data set. (ii) a
In some demonstrative embodiments, the second module in the server includes:
a seventh module (for example, the seventh module 107) that receives a message carrying an intelligent control instruction sent by a user terminal having a binding relationship with the device access point;
an eighth module (for example, the eighth module 108) that parses the intelligent control instruction carried in the message; the intelligent control instruction and second coded data in the coded data set have a corresponding relation;
and determining a ninth module (for example, the ninth module 109) of the second encoded data corresponding to the analyzed intelligent control instruction according to the corresponding relationship.
In some demonstrative embodiments, the server further includes: a tenth module for replying a message to the user terminal, the message being used for prompting a user to send a coded signal to the device access point through a remote controller of the household appliance;
in some demonstrative embodiments, the server further includes: and the eleventh module is used for establishing a binding relationship between the equipment access point and the identified household appliance equipment and sending successful binding information to the user terminal.
Referring now to fig. 8, fig. 8 shows a block diagram of the structure of a device access point according to the method and illustrative embodiment described above;
as shown in fig. 8, in some demonstrative embodiments, a device access point (e.g., device access point 200) is disclosed, including: a first module (for example, the first module 201) for receiving a coded signal transmitted by a remote controller of the home appliance; a second module (e.g., second module 202) for encapsulating the received encoded signal into first encoded data; and directly sending the first coded data to a server on a network side, or forwarding the first coded data to a third module (for example, the third module 203) of the server through a user terminal having a binding relationship with the device access point.
In some demonstrative embodiments, the device access point further includes:
a fourth module (for example, the fourth module 204) that receives second encoded data in an encoded data set to which the first encoded data belongs; and a fifth module (for example, the fifth module 205) for extracting the coded signal in the second coded data and sending the extracted coded signal to the outside.
In some demonstrative embodiments, the device access point further includes: a sixth module (e.g., the sixth module 206) that controls the fourth module to receive the second encoded data sent by the server or the user terminal having a binding relationship with the device access point.
In some demonstrative embodiments, the device access point further includes: and receiving the encoded data set sent by the server, and forwarding the encoded data set to a seventh module (e.g., the seventh module 207) of the user terminal.
In some demonstrative embodiments, the device access point further includes: before receiving a coded signal sent by a remote controller of household electrical appliance equipment, receiving a control instruction sent by the server or a user terminal which has a binding relationship with the equipment access point, and starting a coded signal receiving function; or, after the device access point is powered on, the eighth module (e.g., the eighth module 208) of the code signal receiving function is turned on.
Referring now to fig. 9, fig. 9 shows a block diagram of a user terminal according to the method and illustrative embodiment described above;
as shown in fig. 9, in some demonstrative embodiments, a user terminal (e.g., user terminal 300) is disclosed, including: a first module (for example, the first module 301) that receives an encoded data set sent by a server on a network side or a device access point having a binding relationship with the user terminal; a second module (for example, the second module 302) for selecting second coded data corresponding to the control action in the coded data set of the control object according to the control object and the control action selected by the user; the second encoded data is sent directly to the device access point or sent by the server to a third module (e.g., third module 303) of the device access point.
In some demonstrative embodiments, the user terminal further includes:
before receiving the encoded data set, sending a control instruction directly to the device access point or sending the control instruction to the device access point through the server, where the control instruction is used to turn on a fourth module (e.g., the fourth module 304) of the encoded signal receiving function of the device access point.
In some demonstrative embodiments, the user terminal further includes:
a fifth module (e.g., the fifth module 305) for receiving the first encoding data for identifying the home device sent by the device access point and forwarding the first encoding data to the server before receiving the encoding data set.
In some demonstrative embodiments, the user terminal further includes: a sixth module (for example, the sixth module 306) that receives a message replied by the server or replied by the device access point, where the message is used to prompt a user to send a coded signal to the device access point through a remote controller of the home appliance;
in some demonstrative embodiments, the user terminal further includes: a seventh module (for example, the seventh module 307) for receiving the message that the binding between the electric home appliance and the device access point is successful, which is sent by the server or forwarded by the device access point
The above description of the embodiments is only intended to facilitate the understanding of the method of the invention and its core ideas; meanwhile, for a person skilled in the art, according to the idea of the present invention, there may be variations in the specific embodiments and the application scope, and in summary, the content of the present specification should not be construed as a limitation to the present invention.