Embedding web access mechanism in an appliance for user interface functions including a web server and web browser
AssigneeHewlett-Packard Company
InventorsChandrasekar Venkatraman, Jeffrey A. Morgan
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Abstract
Web access functionality is embedded in a device to enable low cost widely accessible and enhanced user interface functions for the device. A web server in the device provides access to the user interface functions for the device through a device web page. A network interface in the device enables access to the web page by a web browser such that a user of the web browser accesses the user interface functions for the device through the web page.
Claims26
A web access mechanism of a device, comprising:
- a web server that generates a device web page, wherein the device web page provides a set of user interface functions for the device, wherein some of the user interface functions enable control functions of the device, wherein the device is a home appliance or automation apparatus or an office appliance or automation apparatus;
- a network interface that enables access to the device web page by a web browser such that a user of the web browser accesses the user interface functions for the device through the device web page, wherein the web access mechanism is embedded in the device.
A user interface method for a device, comprising the steps of:
- generating a device web page within the device, wherein the device web page provides a set of user interface functions for the device, wherein some of the user interface functions enable control functions of the device, wherein the device is a home appliance or automation apparatus, or an office appliance or automation apparatus;
- providing access to the device web page from a web browser external to the device such that a user of the web browser accesses the user interface functions for the device through the device web page.
A user interface apparatus of a device, comprising:
- means for generating a device web page within the device, wherein the device web page provides a set of user interface functions for the device, wherein some of the user interface functions enable control functions of the device, wherein the device is a home appliance or automation apparatus, or an office appliance or automation apparatus;
- means for providing access to the device web page from a web browser external to the device such that a user of the web browser accesses the user interface functions for the device through the device web page, wherein the user interface apparatus is embedded in the device.
A system, comprising:
- a device having a web server that generates a device web page wherein the device web page provides a set of user interface functions for the device and includes a set of information pertaining to the device, the user interface functions enabling control functions of the device which is a home appliance or automation apparatus, or an office appliance or automation apparatus, the device also having a network interface that enables access to the device web page via a communication network, the web server and the network interface being embedded in the device;
- a web browser coupled to the communication network wherein a user of the web browser accesses the user interface functions for the device through the device web page.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.