METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ENABLING REMOTE CONTROL TO DEVICES OF A LOCAL NETWORK

摘要

The present invention relates to method and apparatus for enabling remote control to electric appliances at a home network from another network. An apparatus of the present invention comprises: a library module for sending control commands to a plurality of electric appliances connected to a home network and for receiving responses from the plurality of electric appliances; and an intermediate ' processing module including a plurality of connection handlers that communicate with associated clients respectively, the clients being based on mutually different protocols. Each connection handler analyzes messages from an associated client, requests the library module to send a control command according to the analysis, makes a response from the library module to a message adequate to delivery to the associated client, and transmits the message to the associated client.