Method for connecting to server devices in browser-based home network apparatus therefor

A computer program for a home network comprising a plurality of server devices each including a web server function and a client device including a web browser for controlling the server devices, the computer program comprising:

• means for preparing a home page of the client device which includes display server device icons enabling selection of the server devices to be connected to;
• means for generating an identification storing unit in which the server devices to be connected to are registered;
• means for reading a register OPCR of one of the server devices selected by a user from the home page of the client device in which an operation state and channel information of the selected server device are recorded from the selected server device, wherein the means for reading the register OPCR reads the register OCPR only when the selected server device is registered in the information storing unit;
• means for completing a connection between the client device and the selected server device by recording the channel information of the selected server device in a register IPCR of the client device in response to the read operation state being an active state;
• and
• means for checking the operation state of the selected server device by reading the register OPCR at predetermined time intervals when the read operation is inactive.

A computer readable medium encoded with software for causing a computer program to perform the actions of:

• preparing a home page of a client device having a web browser and which home page includes display server device icons enabling selection of a plurality of server devices to be connected to the client device and controlled through a web based home network by using the web browser;
• generating an identification storing unit in which the server devices to be connected are registered;
• selecting one of the server device icons in the home page;
• reading a register OPCR of selected server device in which an operation state and channel information of the selected server device are recorded;
• completing a connection between the client device and the selected server device by recording the channel information of the selected server device in a register IPCR of the client device in response to the read operation state being an active state, wherein the connection is completed only when the selected server device is registered in the identification information storing unit;
• and
• checking the operation state of the selected server device by reading the register OCPR at predetermined time intervals when the read operation state is inactive.

A network comprising:

• a plurality of server devices each including a web server function;
• a client device including a web browser which controls the server devices;
• means for preparing a home page of the client device which includes display server device icons enabling selection of the server devices to be connected to;
• means for generating an identification storing unit in which the server devices to be connected to are registered;
• means for reading a register OPCR of one of the server devices selected by a user from the home page of the client device in which an operation state and channel information of the selected server device are recorded from the selected server device, wherein the means for reading the register OPCR reads the register OPCR only when the selected server device is registered in the information storing unit;
• means for completing a connection between the client device and the selected server device by recording the channel information of the selected server device in a register IPCR of the client device in response to the read operation state being an active state;
• and
• means for checking the operation state of the selected server device by reading the register OPCR at predetermined time intervals when the read operation state is inactive.