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AssigneeKoninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.
InventorsEduard Gerhard Zondag, Dennis Van De Meulenhof
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A communication system with multiple clusters connected through gateways is provided. The first cluster has a controlled device, for which an abstract representation (AR) is provided as interface on a controlling device. To facilitate an application device in the second cluster interacting with the AR the system has a near proxy in the first cluster and a far proxy in the second cluster. The application device can interact with the AR via the far proxy, which communicates with the near proxy, which in turn interacts with the AR. Results are sent back to the application device in a similar fashion. An application device on a third cluster can interact with the AR via a further far proxy, which communicates with a further near proxy which in turn communicates with the far proxy.
A communication system comprising a first cluster (100) of interconnected devices, having at least a controlling device (102) and a controlled device (103), functionality of the controlled device (103) being associated with an abstract representation (AR), which provides an interface for controlling the controlled device, the AR (104) for the controlled device (103) being installed on the controlling device (102), the system further comprising a second cluster (105) of interconnected devices, the first and second clusters (100, 105) being interconnected via respective gateway devices (107, 108), wherein the system further comprises a near proxy (109) on a device in the first cluster (100) and a far proxy (110) on a device in the second cluster (105), the near proxy (109) being arranged to interact with the AR (104) in dependence on information received from the far proxy (110) and to transfer to the far proxy (110) the results of said interacting, the far proxy (110) being arranged to transfer to the near proxy (109) information received from an application device (111) in the second cluster (105) and to interact with the application device (111) in the second cluster (105) in dependence on information received from the near proxy (109).
A device for use in a communication system comprising a first cluster (100) of interconnected devices, having at least a controlling device (102) and a controlled device (103), functionality of the controlled device (103) being associated with an abstract representation (AR), which provides an interface for controlling the controlled device, the AR (104) for the controlled device (103) being installed on the controlling device (102), the system further comprising a second cluster (105) of interconnected devices, the first and second clusters (100, 105) being interconnected via respective gateway devices (107, 108), wherein the device is arranged to install a near proxy (109) arranged to interact with the AR (104) in dependence on information received from a far proxy (110) and to transfer to the far proxy (100) the results of said interacting.
A device for use in a communication system comprising a first cluster (100) of interconnected devices, having at least a controlling device (102) and a controlled device (103), functionality of the controlled device (103) being associated with an abstract representation (AR), which provides an interface for controlling the controlled device, the AR (104) for the controlled device (103) being installed on the controlling device (102), the system further comprising a second cluster (105) of interconnected devices, the first and second clusters (100, 105) being interconnected via respective gateway devices (107, 108), wherein the device is arranged to install a far proxy (110) arranged to transfer to a near proxy (109) information received from an application device (111) in the second cluster (105) and to interact with the application device (111) in the second cluster (105) in dependence on information received from the near proxy (109).
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