GATEWAY UNIT, TRANSMISSION UNIT, DEVICE HOOKUP NETWORK SYSTEM, AND DEVICE HOOKUP METHOD

摘要

A gateway unit (10) for hooking up a plurality of devices over a first network comprises: a message monitor (11) that detects a device found message for finding a device meeting optional conditions by monitoring messages streaming over the first network; a startup state manager (12) that confirms whether or not at least one target device meeting conditions shown in the device found message of the plurality of devices is in a startup state; a predicted startup time determiner (13) that determines a predicted startup time that is the predicted time required for the target device to achieve the startup state; and a proxy responder (14) that transmits a response message consisting of information displaying the determined predicted startup time, in a case where the target device is not in the startup state, instead of the target device.