Gateway apparatus and system
OwnerMitsuhiro IMAI, Masataka Okayamainventors
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Abstract
For achieving smooth facilities of services within a home network system where service applications of a plural number of service undertakes are mixed with, management is made upon a use memory volume for an application and an accessing authority to equipments within a home by means of a home gateway, and thereby achieving a home network for preventing an unexpected application from communicating with an unexpected equipment within a home, but without obstructing mutual services by the plural number of service undertakers, with setting up an upper limit of memory volume when starting up the application and the accessing authority from the application to the equipment within the home.
Claims6
A gateway apparatus, being connected with a home network and a network, comprising:
- a control unit controls equipments, which are connected with said home network;
- and
- a download unit downloads an application from said home network;
- wherein
- said control unit makes such control that the application downloaded by said download unit controls said equipments upon basis of information relating to use memory for said application.
A system, comprising:
- a server for distributing application through a network;
- a gateway apparatus, being connected with said network and a home network;
- and
- equipments, being connected with said home network, wherein said gateway apparatus comprises:
- a control unit controls the equipments connected with said home network;
- and
- a download unit downloads an application from said network;
- wherein said control unit performs such control that the application downloaded by said download unit controls said equipments upon basis of information relating to use memory for said application.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.