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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 06, 2026
Filed:
Apr. 30, 2024
Tp-link Corporation Limited, Hong Kong, CN;
Kaiping Weng, Chengdu, CN;
Canjie Chen, Chengdu, CN;
TP-LINK CORPORATION LIMITED, Hong Kong, CN;
Abstract
The present disclosure relates to a management device in a network system. The network system includes at least one slave device. The management device is communicatively connected with the at least one slave device. The management device includes a memory, and a processor communicatively coupled with the memory and configured to: receive, from one or more slave devices of the at least one slave device, function information of functions supported by the one or more slave devices; summarize the received function information and function information of functions supported by the network system which is stored in the management device; determine function information of the summarized function information, a function corresponding to which a control device is to be determined for; and determine the control device for the function to which the determined function information corresponds, from the management device and the at least one slave device.