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US 8,027,325 B2Granted
Home network using wireless module
AssigneesSony Corporation, Sony Electronics Inc.
InventorAkihiko Toyoshima
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Abstract
Methods and apparatus for implementing a home network including a wireless module. In one implementation, a home network includes: two or more host devices, where at least one host device includes a wireless module port, and where the host devices are connected in a local network; and a wireless module connected to the wireless module port of a host device, where the wireless module provides a wireless connection to an external network; where at least one host device is a consumer appliance.
Claims14
Method comprising:
- providing at least two components;
- establishing communication between the components using a network;
- and
- enabling a user of the network to establish which component defines a portal to the Internet, each component having at least one associated port and each component determining whether a wireless module is connected to the associated port of the component, a component in response to determining that a wireless module is connected to the associated port sending to another component in the network an indication thereof, a component in response to determining that a wireless module has been disconnected from its associated port sending to another component in the network an indication thereof.
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Assembly comprising:
- at least two components configured for communication for communication with each other over a home network;
- wherein
- each component has at least one associated port and each component determines whether a wireless module is connected to the associated port of the component, a component in response to determining that a wireless module is connected to the associated port sending to another component in the network an indication thereof, a component in response to determining that a wireless module has been disconnected from its associated port sending to another component in the network an indication thereof.
Method comprising:
- providing at least two components;
- establishing communication between the components using a network;
- each component having at least one associated port;
- each component determining whether a wireless module is connected to the associated port of the component;
- a component in response to determining that a wireless module is connected to the associated port sending to another component in the network an indication thereof;
- and
- a component in response to determining that a wireless module has been disconnected from its associated port sending to another component in the network an indication thereof.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.