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APPARATUS FOR MANAGING ELECTRIC HOME APPLIANCES IN A LOCAL AREA NETWORK INCLUDING A PLURALITY OF HOME NETWORKS AND A METHOD THEREFOR, ESPECIALLY CONCERNED WITH MANAGING A PLURALITY OF HOME NETWORKS BY USING ONE EXTERNAL CONTROL EQUIPMENT
APPARATUS FOR MANAGING ELECTRIC HOME APPLIANCES IN A LOCAL AREA NETWORK INCLUDING A PLURALITY OF HOME NETWORKS AND A METHOD THEREFOR, ESPECIALLY CONCERNED WITH MANAGING A PLURALITY OF HOME NETWORKS BY USING ONE EXTERNAL CONTROL EQUIPMENT
PURPOSE: An apparatus for managing electric home appliances in a local area network including a plurality of home networks and a method therefor are provided to manage a plurality of home networks by using one external control equipment and to realize home networking without gateways and a home server, thereby reducing cost for constructing the home networks. CONSTITUTION: An invitation message receiving unit(431) receives an invitation message transmitted from a predetermined external equipment via a wide area network(42). An electric home appliance URI(Uniform Resource Identifier)/local area network address converter(433) converts an electric home appliance URI included in the invitation message into a local area network address recognizable in a local area network(45) including a plurality of home networks. An invitation message transmitting unit(434) transmits the invitation message received from the invitation message receiving unit(431) to an electric home appliance having the local area network address converted at the electric home appliance URI/local area network address converter(433).
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