Method and apparatus for providing location information of device through home network
AssigneeSamsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
InventorJoo-hyun Kim
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Abstract
A method and an apparatus for providing information of a device to other devices through the home network are provided. The method includes: generating relative location information indicating that a first device is present in a vicinity of a second device if a remote control signal for the second device is received; and providing the relative location information as location information of the first device to at least one other device belonging to the home network. Accordingly, the user can acquire location information of devices belonging to the home network. Therefore, it is possible to easily identify the correspondence of devices visually recognized by the user to the device list obtained as a result of the search.
Claims14
A method of providing device information through a home network, the method comprising:
- generating relative location information indicating that a first device is present in a vicinity of a second device if a remote control signal for the second device is received;
- and
- providing the relative location information as location information of the first device to at least one other device belonging to the home network.
A computer-readable medium having embodied thereon a computer program for executing the method comprising:
- generating relative location information indicating that a first device is present in a vicinity of a second device if a remote control signal for the second device is received;
- and
- providing the relative location information as location information of the first device to at least one other device belonging to the home network.
A home network device comprising:
- a location information generating unit which generates relative location information indicating that a first device is present in a vicinity of a second device if a remote control signal for the second device is received through a home network comprising a plurality of devices;
- and
- a location information provider which provides the relative location information as location information of the first device to at least one other device belonging to the home network.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.