Patent ID: 9491246
Filing Date: 2016-11-08
CPC Classification: H04L,H04W

Claim Text:
1. A method for assigning a PN (personal network) admin and adding an adminee in a PN, the PN admin and the adminee belonging to the same user, the PN admin being authorized to administrate information about the adminee belonging to the same user, and the method being performed by a PN gateway (GW), the method comprising: transmitting, to a PN element (PNE), a first request message for requesting to add the PNE as an adminee and to assign a PN admin; receiving, from the PNE, a first response message including a result of processing the first request message; transmitting, to a converged personal network service (CPNS) server, a second request message equal to the first request message when the result of processing the first request message is successful, and a second request message for requesting to assign the PN admin when the result of processing the first request message is not successful; receiving, from the CPNS server, a second response message including a result of processing of the second request message; and updating a PN inventory with respect to addition of the adminee and assignment of the PN admin if the result of processing of the second request message is successful.