Apparatus and method for virtual home service

Abstract

The present invention provide an apparatus and method for virtual home service. The virtual home service apparatus comprises a physical device registration unit registering or deleting physical devices present in home and controlling the registered physical devices; a virtual device generation unit generating virtual devices using the registered physical device; a context reasoning unit reasoning in-home context using information of the generated virtual devices; and a service control unit generating a virtual device control command according to the result of the reasoned in-home context and delivering the result to the virtual device generation unit, wherein the virtual device generation unit generates hybrid virtual devices comprising a plurality of physical devices according to input of a user's virtual device generation command including physical device configuration information of the hybrid virtual devices or generates a single virtual device corresponding one-to-one to the physical device according to input of profile information of the physical device.

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