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| 20090075676 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING LOCATION INFORMATION FOR HOME NETWORK - Provided are a system and method for managing location information for a home network. The system includes a device management means for collecting information of home network devices to form a device table, a location management means for generating a space data structure including a gridded home floor plan, and associating the device table with the space data structure on the basis of a location of the home network device, and a user interface module for receiving a location of the home network device to transfer the input location information to the location management means. Since location information of the home network devices is directly input, accurate location-based home network services can be provided. | 03-19-2009 |
| 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 |
| 20090157880 | MANAGEMENT SYSTEM FOR QUALITY OF SERVICE IN HOME NETWORK - There is provided a QoS (quality of service) management system in a home network. When a QoS service is provided in the home network consisting of hosts and bridges, a user provides a user identifier and authentication information and the QoS management system verifies the user identifier and authentication information when managing a user policy and providing a service, to provide a consistent and stable policy within the home network, to prevent a collision among different policies, and to prevent the home network resources from being used by an illegal user. | 06-18-2009 |
| 20100057649 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR FAULT PREDICTION IN HOME NETWORK - A system for fault prediction in a home network includes: a context generator for generating context information based on status data collected in real time about components of the home network; a specification interpreter for generating knowledge rules for fault detection by using specifications of the components of the home network; a context analyzer for analyzing if the context information meet the knowledge rules to classify the context information into normal situation contexts and abnormal situation contexts; a context pattern learner for generating new knowledge rules based on the abnormal situation contexts and fault rules corresponding to the abnormal situation contexts; a knowledge rule database for storing and managing the knowledge rules and the new knowledge rules; and a fault predictor for analyzing a correlation between the knowledge rules or the new knowledge rules and the generated context information, thereby predicting faults to be generated. | 03-04-2010 |
| 20100074142 | METHOD FOR GAP ANALYSIS FOR NETWORK TOPOLOGY INSPECTION IN ETHERNET-BASED NETWORK - A method for gap analysis for topology inspection to recognize a topology of a deep segment through gap discovery in an Ethernet network, includes: a gap division process of dividing a gap into atomic gaps that are no longer divided through path crossing test (PCT); and a gap interpretation process of analyzing a final result of the PCT when the atomic gap is generated, to interpret a topology of the gap. | 03-25-2010 |
| 20100077080 | COMMUNICATION TERMINAL, SERVICE KIOSK, AND SERVICE PROVIDING SYSTEM AND METHOD - A service providing method includes: transmitting service kiosk information from a service kiosk to a communication terminal at a prescribed time interval; and if a communication terminal requests a service newspaper through the transmitted service kiosk information, creating the service newspaper in accordance with terminal information of the communication terminal and transmitting the service newspaper to the communication terminal. Further, the service providing method includes, if the communication terminal requests a service through the service newspaper, dividing and buffering the requested service page by page in accordance with physical feature information from the terminal information and transmitting the requested service to the communication terminal. | 03-25-2010 |
| 20100121906 | DEVICE MANAGEMENT APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR HOME NETWORK SYSTEM - A device management apparatus for a home network system includes: a local device manager for controlling and managing device initialization, software maintenance, device status monitoring and device event alarm management for adaptive middleware devices in the home network system; and a local device agent for performing device initialization, software maintenance, device status monitoring and device event alarm management for each adoptive middleware device under control and management of the local device manager. The local device manager provides a Universal Middleware Bridge (UMB) device to the adaptive middleware device or application service in a form of a Virtual Device Type (VDT) device. | 05-13-2010 |
| 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 |
| 20100135308 | INTEGRATED GATEWAY APPARATUS AND COMMUNICATIONS METHOD - An integrated gateway apparatus includes a policy storage for storing therein a first information on message filtering and switching policies for messages received from heterogeneous devices in lower networks via network interfaces; a device management unit for extracting a second information on the messages, the devices and the network interfaces; a layer-basis filter unit for performing, based on the first and the second information, the message filtering and switching on the messages on a layer basis; and an integrated switch management unit for providing the first information to the layer-basis filter unit and controlling the layer-basis filtering unit. The layer-basis filter unit includes a switch filter unit, a route filter unit and a gateway filter unit for performing the message filtering and switching in a MAC layer, in a network layer and a transport layer and in an application layer, respectively. | 06-03-2010 |
| 20100138550 | SHIP-BORNE DEVICE MANAGING METHOD - A ship-borne device managing method includes allocating IP address information to a device when a device configuration information request message is received from the device through a network in a ship system; performing an overlapping test of checking whether the allocated IP address information is currently used in the device; allocating service session information necessary for provision of an application service regarding the device in case where the overlapping test determines that the allocated IP address information is not currently used by the device; and generating a device configuration information response message based on the allocated IP address information and service session information and transmitting the device configuration information response message to the device. The device configuration information request message may include information regarding the device in the form of text or binary. | 06-03-2010 |
| 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 |
| 20100156608 | APPARATUS AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING DIGITAL APPLIANCES BASED ON PARKING MANAGEMENT - An apparatus for controlling digital appliances based on parking management is disclosed. The apparatus includes an interface unit, connected to a control terminal through a wired/wireless communication network, for providing an interface for establishing a home network service environment that is dependent upon information about incoming or outgoing vehicle; a storage unit for storing the home network service environment established by the interface; and an appliance controller for controlling the digital appliances based on the home network service environment stored in the storage unit, upon receipt of the information about incoming or outgoing vehicle. | 06-24-2010 |
| 20100161161 | APPARATUS FOR INTEGRALLY MANAGING SHIP DEVICE AND METHOD THEREOF - An apparatus for integrally managing a ship includes a device manager for integrally managing different types of local ship devices in the ship by using a standardized protocol message; a local device manager for managing local ship devices in a legacy environment on the basis of an independent local protocol; and an inter-working framework (IWF) for performing translation of a protocol for compatibility between the standardized protocol and the independent local protocol to manage the different types of local ship devices between the device manager and the local device manager. The device manager receives a remote control instruction for remotely maintaining and repairing the local ship device from a remote server connected through a wired/wireless communication network. | 06-24-2010 |
| 20100161982 | HOME NETWORK SYSTEM - A home network system includes: a plurality of wireless devices cooperated with a home network, each device having a tag attached thereto to identify it; a tag reader for reading tag information from the tag of each wireless device; and a network manager for storing a shared key and identifying each wireless device connected to the home network using the tag information and supporting information exchange between the wireless devices by using the shared key. | 06-24-2010 |
| 20110038369 | COMMUNICATION METHOD AND APPARATUS BASED ON USER DATAGRAM PROTOCOL - A communication method based on user datagram protocol (UDP) in a transmitter includes: segmenting a message provided thereto into packets of a predetermined size; allocating a serial number to each of the segmented packets; storing the segmented packets in a packet buffer to transmit the packets to a receiver in order of the allocated serial numbers; and waiting for a control message indicating packet receipt completion from the receiver. The communication method based on UDP in a receiver includes: receiving packets segmented by a predetermined size in order of serial numbers from a transmitter; and when the received segmented packets are message packets and there is no missing packet, assembling the segmented packets in order of the serial numbers to complete a message. | 02-17-2011 |
| 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 |
| 20110080914 | ETHERNET TO SERIAL GATEWAY APPARATUS AND METHOD THEREOF - Provided is an Ethernet-to-serial gateway apparatus including: a buffer manager to verify a characteristic of a data packet received via an Ethernet interface, and to thereby select a buffer for storing the data packet, and to store the data packet in the selected buffer; a packet scheduler to extract a data packet from the buffer according to a predetermined policy; a packet distributor to verify a destination address of the extracted data packet, and to thereby obtain serial interface information associated with at least one target apparatus to which the extracted data packet is transmitted; and a serial communication unit to transmit the extracted data packet to the at least one target apparatus via a corresponding serial interface based on the serial interface information. | 04-07-2011 |
| 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 |
| 20110138459 | TERMINAL AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THEREOF - Disclosed are a terminal and a method for controlling thereof that load a user authorization function in a terminal such as a remote controller that remotely controls an external display apparatus such as a TV, etc. and allow only users who accept user authorization to use the display apparatus. | 06-09-2011 |
