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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 24, 2012
Filed:
Aug. 15, 2006
Kiyohito Yoshihara, Fujimino, JP;
Shinji Motegi, Fujimino, JP;
Hiroki Horiuchi, Fujimino, JP;
KDDI Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
By simply connecting consumer equipments physically to a home network, configurations are set automatically for the consumer equipment, and the consumer equipment is enabled to be remote operated easily via a home gateway that is not necessarily fixed in address. A home gatewayincludes: a home management tablethat manages equipment information of consumer equipment connected to the home network; an equipment detectorthat cyclically transmits a detection request along the home network, detects consumer equipment, and acquires the equipment information of the detected consumer equipment; an equipment management unitthat updatingly registers the equipment information of the detected consumer equipment into the above-described home management table; a DHCP server functionthat sets network configurations for newly detected consumer equipment; and an equipment information registration unit that updatingly registers the equipment information in the home management table cyclically into a portal server