3174results about "Substation remote connection/disconnection" patented technology

A method, terminal device, network element, system and computer program product for controlling discontinuous reception or transmission at a terminal device of a communication network are disclosed. A regular discontinuous reception or transmission cycle of a regular discontinuous reception or transmission scheme is set by using a first control layer, and in addition thereto a shorter temporary discontinuous reception or transmission cycle of an interim discontinuous reception or transmission scheme can be set by using a second control layer. This arrangement provides long discontinuous reception or transmission cycles for power consumption improvements while at the same time ensuring that the network can easily and flexibly shorten these cycles for increased data throughput, if needed.

A system manages consumption of power supplied by at least one electric utility to multiple power consuming devices. Power flow to the power consuming devices is enabled and disabled by controllable devices controlled by one or more client devices. According to one embodiment, a group of one or more client devices to which to communicate a power control message is determined. The power control message indicates at least one of an amount of electric power to be reduced and an identification of one or more controllable devices to be instructed to disable a flow of electric power to one or more associated power consuming devices. The power control message is communicated to the determined group of client devices to initiate a power reduction event. Subsequent to initiation of the power reduction event, a determination is made that at least one controllable device has prematurely exited the power reduction event.

A platform-independent system and method for remotely controlling home devices and a computer-readable recording medium in which a program capable of executing the method is recorded are disclosed. The method includes installing a device control application to be used for the management of a home device when the home device is connected to the home network system, bring state information of the home device through the installed device control application, controlling a specified home device from an outside, receiving a report of an event occurring in the home device, and using a SOAP so that the above operations are performed irrespective of the middleware of a home gateway. Accordingly, the home devices connected to the home network through the home gateway can be controlled from the outside irrespective of the middleware supported by the home gateway.

The disclosed subject matter provides a main device and at least one secondary device. The at least one secondary device and the main device may operate in cooperation with one another and other networked components to provide improved performance, such as improved speech and other signal recognition operations. Using the improved recognition results, a higher probability of generating the proper commands to a controllable device is provided.

An energy efficient MAC protocol for a sensor network that extends the battery life of remotely located wireless nodes by employing MAC operations involving transmission of a wake-up signal with more processing gain, dynamic adjustment of a transmission rate of synchronization messages for fast time synchronization and an energy efficient neighboring node discovery technique.

The present invention discloses a home network management system which can perform processing, conversion and transmission of data between a plurality of client devices and a plurality of home appliances. The home network management system resides in a home master device connected to at least one home appliance through a first network and connected to at least one client device through a second network separated from the first network, and is controlled by a central processing means of the home master device. The system includes a channel handling module for transmitting/receiving a first type of packet between the home master device and the home appliance, a transmission handling module for performing conversion between the first type of packet from the channel handling module and a first type of message from a service management module, and transmitting the converted packet and message, the service management module for performing conversion between the first type of message from the transmission handling module and a second type of message from a connection handling module, and transmitting the converted messages, and the connection handling module for performing conversion between a second type of extension message from the client device and the second type of message from the service management module.

The present invention provides a communication network system in which communication can be securely performed via a global network from an existing terminal apparatus to an existing device connected to a local network without needing a special gateway function in a router and without performing a special setting in the router. In the communication network system (10), a communication relay client (202) performs polling on a management center network (1) via a NAT router (204); a communication relay server (102) converts a packet transmitted from a management terminal (101); and the communication relay client (202) receives the converted packet as a response to the polling via the NAT router (204) from the side of the management center network (1). The communication relay client (202) converts the converted packet to the original packet, and transmits the original packet to a device to be managed (201).

Electronic apparatus and method are provided for management of communications between channel master (e.g. audio player), responding device (e.g. remote control/headphones) and, optionally, passive devices (e.g. headphones) wirelessly connected in a wireless audio network. The channel master transmits, and the responding device receives, audio signals and network management information. Profile negotiation means communicates application profiles for the devices, establishing at least one application profile which is common to them and designating a selected, common application profile for use in associating the devices. Channel selection means selects a channel for the communications using an ordered selection of channels (PCS) obtained from scanning the channels for idle channels and ordering the scanned channels according to priority based on channel quality. Normalized control and status interfaces establish interoperability between devices which use different data streams to communicate in the network.

A portable device-interoperable home network system includes a home server controls data transmission and reception of an internal network to which a plurality of home appliances are connected in a home. An image server outputs information regarding at least one image in the home to the home server. A portable device server receives the image information from the image server via the home server and transfers it to a portable electronic device. Therefore, a user can recognize a situation in the home through the portable electronic device from anywhere outside of the home, resulting in an increase in convenience of use.

Methods and devices provide a virtual peripheral hub and services enabling remote access to peripherals commonly connected to personal computers in a manner that simplifies device networking. A virtual peripheral hub device may include a processor and wireless communication transceivers configured to connect to cellular and/or WiFi networks to access a remote server, and wired and/or wireless local networks for connecting to peripheral devices. The virtual peripheral hub device may plug into a power source (e.g., a wall socket or cigarette lighter), connect to a peripheral device, and be configured to enable any computer attached to a local area network or the Internet to use or access the peripheral device. An associated server-based service enables discovery of the virtual peripheral hub device and connected peripherals. The associated server-based server may provide the drivers for various peripherals, store and forward data, and provide remote access to the various peripherals.

A method and system that facilitates prioritization of tasks available through the devices in a home network. The tasks are user level descriptions of the high-level actions a user and underlying devices can perform. By prioritizing tasks for a user, the present invention aims to minimize the effort required to compare and comprehend the usefulness and feasibility of tasks. In doing so, the number of tasks possible to a user can be reduced and the highest priority task for a given user and device can be used by the application software as the suggested ‘most likely’ task for the user.

A security device for a home network and a security configuration method thereof. The security device for the home network includes a user interface to send at least one request signal that includes a device register request signal to register a home appliance to the home network; a public key generator to generate a public key and a password used for security configuration of the home network; a home appliance interface to interface with the home appliance; and a controller to control the home appliance interface to transmit the public key and the password to the home appliance, and the controller to control to register the home appliance to the home network according to a service discovery protocol when the device register request signal is received from the user interface. Accordingly, the security configuration of the home network can be facilitated.

A method, system, and apparatus for discovering and connecting to data sources are provided. A system is provided that includes a server computer operative to maintain a centrally managed repository of data connection definitions. A client computer is also provided including an application program capable of consuming data from a data source. When a request is received by the application to connect to a data source, a list of available sources is retrieved from the server computer. If one of the data sources in the list is selected, a data connection file is retrieved and utilized to connect to the data source. If a report is opened by the application that includes a reference to a data source, the repository is utilized to confirm the connection to the data source.

Disclosed herein are a wireless terminal-interoperable home network system and a method for controlling the same. A home server is linked with a security device and camera installed in a building to, when the security device senses entrance/exit of an outsider into/from the building, acquire an internal image of the building from the camera and send the acquired image to a wireless terminal of a user to enable the user to monitor the internal situation of the building in real time. The user can access the home server over a wireless communication network from a remote place outside of the building without separate access to the Internet to receive the internal image of the building and check the internal situation of the building on the basis of the received internal image, resulting in an increase in convenience of use.

A secure agent system for communicating with a secure remote access system is disclosed. The agent system is suitable for execution on a base device which is configured to be coupled to the internet. The agent system initiates data communication with the remote access system by sending requests and receiving replies from the remote access system. The replies may include requests to retrieve, store, update, and/or delete data associated with the base device, which the agent system carries out. The agent system further provides reply data to such requests to the remote access system.

Various systems and methods for distributing multiple Bluetooth data streams are discussed herein. As one example, a method for communicably coupling a single point Bluetooth device to multiple Bluetooth devices is taught. The method includes providing a multiport Bluetooth distributor that includes two or more Bluetooth protocol interfaces and a multiport processor. The multiport processor is operable to communicably couple one of the Bluetooth protocol interfaces to another Bluetooth protocol interface. The method further includes identifying at least two Bluetooth devices within range of the multiport Bluetooth distributor, and assembling a service offering based on the identified Bluetooth devices. The service offering includes a plurality of service types including at least a first service type and a second service type.

The present invention relates to a remote control (107; 201; 301) for controlling at least one device (101, 102, 103; 302) with connectivity to a service delivery network (105, 106). The remote control (107; 201; 301) comprising one or more displays (202) for showing display items which are indicative for one or more control instructions and the remote control (107; 201; 301) is able to adapt the display items and/or the control instructions in real-time depending on a selected service (303).