GATEWAY ENABLING MESSAGE COMMUNICATION BETWEEN DEVICES USING DIFFERENT MIDDLEWARE IN HOME NETWORK, HOME NETWORK SYSTEM AND MESSAGE RELAY METHOD

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a gateway for enabling message communication between devices using different middlewares in a home network, a home network system and a message relay method. SOLUTION: This gateway, which enables message communication between devices using different middlewares in a home network, includes a generic middleware agent 310 for including various middlewares used by devices in the network and using one of the middlewares corresponding to the middlewares of a message destination device to convert the message into a prescribed format and a network access unit 320 for receiving the message converted into the prescribed format from the generic middle agent and sending the message to the destination device through the network.