Registered
HOME NETWORK CLIENT AND SERVER INCLUDING ENERGY-AWAY CONTROL ELEMENT AND CONTROL METHOD THEREOF
- Inventors
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Hyun-Woo Oh, Han Intark, Park Kwang Roh
- Application No.
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12155539 (2008.06.05)
- Publication No.
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20090158064 (2009.06.18)
- Registration No.
- 8117470 (2012.02.14)
- Country
- UNITED STATES
- Project Code
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07MH2500, Development of Platform Technology to Reduce the Power Consumption in Always-On Home Network Systems,
Han Intark
- Abstract
- Provided are a home network client and server including an energy-away control element (ECE), and a control method thereof. A client advertises an ECE serving as a functional block of each service unit. The advertisement is recognized and the ECE is registered by a plug and play method. An ECE to be controlled is searched and selected among registered ECEs. State checking and management are performed on the selected ECE. The ECE is defined by each service unit in the home network server and client, and energy is controlled for each ECE, so that the energy consumption can be reduced.
- KSP Keywords
- Client-server, Control element, Home Network, Plug and play, Service unit, control method, energy consumption