Lg Electronics Inc.

Seung-Cheon Kim

Kyoung-woo Lee

Sang-Wook Lim

A method for deciding a network manager (NM) in a home network, including the steps of comparing a priority of a current NM and a priority of a new NM when the new NM is plugged-in a home network which is controlled by the current NM and deciding a NM having a higher priority as the NM of the home network between the current NM and the new NM, can smoothly control and manage the home network by deciding a NM having a higher priority as the NM for centralized-controlling the home network.

Method for deciding network manager in home network

Disclosed is a method for generating a house code (HC) in a home network based on a living network control protocol (LnCP), in which a (HC) having a small capacity is generated by using a region separation code and a household separation code and the generated HC is provided to each household. To this end, in the home network generating a HC for dividing each household and providing the generated HC to each household, the method comprises the steps of: generating a portion of the HC as a region separation code for dividing plural regions; and generating another portion of the HC as a household separation code for separating households in each of the plural regions.

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Anyang, South Korea

Seung-Cheon Kim