Patent application number | Description | Published |
20090083401 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATICALLY SETTING UP CONFIGURATIONS OF HOME NETWORK - Provided are a system and method for automatically setting up configurations of a home network. The system includes a setting information manager, placed within an individual home, for collecting and managing setting information associated with configurations of the home network. The setting information manager shares the setting information with a remote setting information management server or another setting information manager. Since customized setting information of an individual home is shared, setting information of home network configurations can be effectively managed, thereby reducing costs and efforts required for maintenance and repair of the home network. | 03-26-2009 |
20090094484 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTONOMOUSLY PROCESSING FAULTS IN HOME NETWORK ENVIRONMENTS - There are provided a fault processing system and method for quickly and accurately diagnosing a fault and autonomously processing the fault, based on interdependencies between various devices, networks, systems, and services in home network environments, the method including: establishing fault detection rules for detecting faults belonging to respective fault types defined for each situation by classifying faults occurring in the home network environments, fault diagnosis rules for diagnosing a fault type of a fault, and fault processing rules defining a method of solving a fault for each fault type; collecting state information of devices, networks, services, and the system in the home network environments and detecting a fault based on the fault detection rules; diagnosing the fault type of the detected fault by applying the fault diagnosis rules; and processing the detected fault based on the fault processing rules according to the diagnosed fault type. | 04-09-2009 |
20100131627 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR RECONFIGURING APPLICATION SERVICES IN HOME NETWORK ENVIRONMENT - A method for reconfiguring services in a home network environment where plural devices included in a device group operate in conjunction with application services includes analyzing an application service script; collecting home network status information through the home network environment; and matching the application service script with the home network status information to generate a corrected application service execution plan. | 05-27-2010 |
20100141469 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR OPERATING HOME NETWORK BY USING BUILDING STRUCTURE DRAWING - An apparatus for operating a home network includes a plurality of devices connected through the home network; and a building structure drawing DB for storing a building structure drawing regarding the inside of the building. Further, the apparatus for operating a home network includes a home network management system for generating service execution scheme information to provide an application service by using each device based on home network state information, determining building structure and home network configuration information based on building structure drawing information and the generated service execution scheme information, and controlling each device by determining whether to operate the application service. | 06-10-2010 |
20110066757 | GENERAL MIDDLEWARE BRIDGE AND METHOD THEREOF - There are disclosed a general middleware bridge supporting an interoperability operation between devices on different middlewares and a method thereof. The general middleware bridge according to the present invention includes: a conversion rule collector collecting message conversion rules for an interoperability operation between different middleware devices; a conversion rule register registering the message conversion rules for each message type; and a message converter interconverting messages from the middleware devices on the basis of the message conversion rules and transferring the converted messages for each message type. | 03-17-2011 |
20110131252 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PHYSICAL/LOGICAL RELATIONSHIP MAPPING BETWEEN RESOURCES - Disclosed is a method for dynamically mapping a physical/logical relationship between resources. The method for physical/logical relationship mapping between resources includes: abstracting heterogeneous environments of physical resources; expressing the physical resources by a resource instance of a predetermined format to generate logical resources which are grouped and managed in accordance with types of the resources; and analyzing the physical/logical relationship between the resources to generate a relation map. | 06-02-2011 |
20110153626 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR PERFORMING MAPPING OF DATA OF NETWORK DEVICE - A data mapping device according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention includes a system-information collecting unit configured to collect information on any one or more of a transmission device and a reception device connected through a network, a rule extracting unit configured to extract a data mapping rule corresponding to the information from a mapping-rule DB, and a data mapping unit configured to perform a mapping of data input from the transmission device according to the data mapping rule and to transmit the data to the reception device. According to the present invention, it is possible to improve interoperability between devices connected through a network. | 06-23-2011 |
20110307613 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR INTEGRATED MANAGEMENT OF DIGITALIZED INFORMATION AND DYNAMIC RESOURCES OF BUILDING - Disclosed are an apparatus and a method for integrated management of digitalized information and dynamic resources of a building, in order to integrate and manage digital information associated with a building and information on resources dynamically managed, such as various sensors and devices, networks, services, and the like in the building built up in a building designing or construction stage, resource objects are generated for each of the digitalized building information and dynamic resource information collected from one or more dynamic resources associated with the building, and a list thereof is maintained and managed, and an integrated map of a resource relationship object representing a relationship between the resource objects is generated, maintained, and managed on the basis of the list. | 12-15-2011 |
20120150454 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR MANAGING ENERGY RESOURCES - An apparatus for managing energy resources includes: a collection unit for collecting energy consumptions and resource information of a plurality of energy consumption devices; an integrated resource relation map management unit for generating and managing an integrated resource relation map which indicates correlations between energy resources one another consumed by the energy consumption devices by using the energy consumptions and the resource information; and an energy management unit for generating energy-saving measures based on the integrated resource relation map. | 06-14-2012 |
20120150775 | SYSTEM FOR SEMANTIC HOME NETWORK MANAGEMENT, CLOUD INFERENCE APPARATUS FOR SEMANTIC HOME NETWORK MANAGEMENT, SEMANTIC HOME NETWORK, AND SEMANTIC HOME NETWORK CONNECTION DEVICE - A semantic home network management system includes: a home network for collecting sensing information based on a state of a home network and analyzing the collected sensing information to configure semantic information; and a cloud inference apparatus for collecting and managing the semantic information provided from the home network through an internet protocol (IP) network, and applying an inference rule to the collected and managed semantic information to provide inference rule-applied semantic information to the home network. The inference rule is a rule that performs inference by recognizing at least one of a device state, a network state, a system state, and a service state. | 06-14-2012 |
20120159249 | FAILURE DIAGNOSIS METHOD AND APPARATUS USING RESOURCE RELATIONSHIP MAP - A failure diagnosis method includes: generating a resource relationship map of resources to be managed on a network; and when a failure occurs in a certain service object within the network, extracting a topology relationship map from the resource relationship map by using the failed service object as a root node. The failure diagnosis method further includes searching a resource object caused the failure while checking related objects, starting from the root node in the topology relationship map. | 06-21-2012 |
20120166538 | VIRTUAL SMART HOME SYSTEM, SERVER, HOME GATEWAY BASED ON CLOUD COMPUTING AND SMART HOME SERVICE METHOD - A smart home system based on a cloud computing includes: a home gateway connecting a home network device to an external network, the home network device being connected to a home network at each home. The system further includes and a cloud server, connected to the home gateway, for collecting contents information stored in the home network device and resource information of the home network information and performing a unified management of the contents information and the resource information at the each home. | 06-28-2012 |
20130297785 | USER STATUS ANALYZING METHOD AND APPARATUS USING ACTIVITY HISTORY - A user status analyzing apparatus including an activity history acquiring module configured to acquire, in a form of activity history time series data, activity history information in which a user activity is written through a home network to which a plurality of sensor devices is connected; an activity history storage configured to store the plurality of activity history time series data obtained by the activity history acquiring module; and an activity history analyzing module configured to analyze a user status depending on a correlation and characteristics perceived on a basis of the plurality of activity history time series data stored in the activity history storage. | 11-07-2013 |