Home appliance and control method thereof
AssigneeLG Electronics Inc.
InventorsYanghwan Kim, Minyoung Park
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Abstract
A home appliance includes a first module to communicate with a communication module of a terminal; a second module to communicate with a router; and a control unit controlling a communication connection between the second module and the router by using information stored in the first module. The first module includes a module recognition unit recognizing whether the communication module of the terminal is within a preset distance; and a memory unit storing network configuration information to be used when the second module accesses the router.
Claims20
A home appliance comprising:
- a first module to communicate with a communication module of a terminal;
- a second module to communicate with a router;
- and
- a control unit to control a communication connection between the second module and the router by using information stored in the first module,
- wherein the first module comprises:
- a module recognition unit to recognize whether the communication module of the terminal is within a preset distance;
- and
- a memory unit to store network configuration information to be used by the control unit when the second module accesses the router.
A method of controlling a home appliance, the method comprising:
- executing an application of a home appliance and executing a network configuration mode of near field communication (NFC);
- tagging a terminal to the home appliance for data transmission or reception;
- writing, by the terminal, network configuration information to a first module of the home appliance if the tagging is performed, and reading, by a control unit of the home appliance, the network configuration information from the first module;
- and
- transmitting, by the control unit of the home appliance, the network configuration information read from the first module, to a router.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.