US 10,097,476 B2Granted

Method and apparatus for controlling home network access using phone numbers, and system thereof

AssigneeKt Corporation

InventorMi-Ae Lee

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Abstract

A method and apparatus for controlling a home network access using phone numbers, and a system thereof, which enables a sharing user to simply set and manage sharing environment based on a telephone number capable of being easily recognized by the sharing user, and enables sharing users to simply access a sharing device inside a home using telephone numbers previously recognized by the sharing users when sharing contents of a UPnP device connected to a home network with the sharing users outside the home. The system includes a phone number management server for managing phone number information and a linked home gateway identifier, an access list management server for managing an access list, a home gateway management server for managing state information and access information of a home gateway, and a service server for receiving a service request from a remoter terminal and processing the received service request.

Claims7

Dependent claims

A method of controlling remote access to a home network, the method comprising:

registering, in a telephone number management server, a plurality of telephone numbers, each telephone number being of a mobile telephone or an Internet telephone connected locally to the home network, in association with a home network gateway that controls a remote access to the home network;
managing an access list comprising at least one first telephone number and at least one second telephone number, wherein the at least one first telephone number is registered in the telephone number management server and through which the remote access to the home network is permitted and wherein the at least one second telephone number is registered in the telephone number management server and through which the remote access to the home network is not permitted;
receiving from a remote terminal a request to remotely access the home network through a third telephone number of a home terminal, the request comprising the third telephone number;
determining whether the third telephone number of the received request matches the at least one first telephone number based on the access list;
transmitting to the remote terminal an Internet Protocol (IP) address of the home network gateway in response to the determining that the third telephone number of the received request matches the at least one first telephone number;
transmitting authentication information, which indicates that the remote terminal is an authenticated terminal, to the remote terminal in response to the determining that the third telephone number of the received request matches the at least one first telephone number;
controlling a device connected to and within the home network using the remote terminal, which is not a part of the home network;
extracting an identifier of the home network gateway associated with the telephone number;
and
updating state information and access information of the home network gateway.

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A method of controlling remote access to a home network, the method comprising:

registering, in a telephone number management server, a plurality of telephone numbers, including a telephone number of a wire line telephone associated with a home network gateway and a telephone number of a mobile telephone or an Internet telephone connected locally to the home network;
managing an access list comprising at least one first telephone number and at least one second telephone number, wherein the at least one first telephone number is registered in the telephone number management server and through which a remote access to the home network is permitted and wherein the at least one second telephone number is registered in the telephone number management server and through which the remote access to the home network is not permitted;
receiving from a remote terminal a request to remotely access the home network through a third telephone number of a home terminal, the request comprising the third telephone number;
determining whether the third telephone number of the received request matches the at least one first telephone number based on the access list;
transmitting to the remote terminal an Internet Protocol (IP) address of the home network gateway in response to the determining that the third telephone number of the received request matches the at least one first telephone number;
transmitting authentication information, which indicates that the remote terminal is an authenticated terminal, to the remote terminal in response to the determining that the third telephone number of the received request matches the at least one first telephone number;
controlling a device connected to and within the home network using the remote terminal, the remote terminal being not a part of the home network;
extracting an identifier of the home network gateway associated with the telephone number;
and
updating state information and access information of the home network gateway.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 14/681,567Filed 8 Apr 2015 · continuation
Priority: KR 10-2010-012618310 Dec 2010
Published: US 2015/0215233 A130 Jul 2015
Granted: 9 Oct 2018
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification5 codes

H04L 12/2834
Processing of data at an internetworking point of a home automation network: switching of information between an external network and a home network
H04L 47/70
Traffic control in data switching networks: admission control; Resource allocation
H04L 63/101
For controlling access to devices or network resources: access control lists [ACL]
H04L 2101/65
Details of network addresses: telephone numbers

Family

Application13/323,321Parent of this continuation · filed 12 Dec 2011
US 2015/0215233 A1Pre-grant publication · published 30 Jul 2015
US 9,032,074 B2Parent of this continuation
US 2012/0151058 A1Published application
US 10,097,476 B2This patent

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