Electronic device and relevant method thereof used to control different intelligent network devices

Abstract

The invention relates to an electronic device and a relevant method thereof used to control different intelligent network devices. The electronic device used to control the different intelligent network devices comprises a physical layer interface and a virtual device generation unit, wherein the physical layer interface is connected with a plurality of different intelligent network devices through a packet switcher, and the virtual device generation unit is used to generate a plurality of virtual devices which respectively correspond to the different intelligent network devices to communicate with the electronic device on behalf of the intelligent network devices. The virtual devices can convert an upper control command into a predefined packet format and transmit packets to the intelligent network devices through the physical layer interface, and can filter packets transmitted by the intelligent network devices from the packets received by the physical layer interface according to the predefined packet format.

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technical field [0001] The present invention relates to an electronic device for controlling disparate smart network devices and a related method thereof, in particular to an electronic device and a related method for controlling and managing multiple disparate smart network devices through a single physical network interface . Background technique [0002] With the development of network technology, different network devices, such as wireless network devices with wireless technology standards such as Wi-Fi, WiMax, Ultra-Wideband (UWB) and Bluetooth, are designed to implement different applications. Among them, the smart network card, that is, the System-on-Chip (SOC) with a microprocessor is becoming more and more popular in today's wireless chip design due to its advantages of dispersing the computing power of the main control terminal. [0003] Generally speaking, a SoC needs to be embedded with a flash memory for storing firmware, so it can be regarded as an independent...

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[0003] Generally speaking, a system-on-a-chip needs to be embedded with a flash memory for storing firmware, so it can be regarded as an independent computer system, which is not easy to be controlled and managed

In addition, when the above-mentioned various wireless devices need to be integrated into a single product, such as 2.4GHz / 5GHz or WiFi / WiMax dual-mode base station (Access Point, AP) or consumer products with Bluetooth / ultra-wideband interface, the required cost The effort and cost will also increase substantially

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