Patent ID: 9716675
Date: 2017-07-25
CPC Classifications: H04L

Claim:
1. An Internet of Things (IoT) control method configured as a computer, the method comprising: registering IoT devices as buddies through an open application programmer interface (API) of a messenger service platform associated with a messenger application; creating a group chat room by grouping a plurality of IoT devices among the IoT devices registered as the buddies; and providing a messaging service through the group chat room in which, as participants, the plurality of IoT devices participate, wherein each of the plurality of IoT devices participating in the group chat room transmits and receives messages associated with controlling an operation of said each of the plurality of IoT devices through the open API of the messenger service platform, wherein the providing comprises: detecting a predetermined service control-oriented message input by a user in the group chat room; controlling, in response to the predetermined service control-oriented message is detected in the group chat room, an operation of at least one IoT device of the plurality of IoT devices participating in the group chat room; and outputting, as a reply to the predetermined service control-oriented message, information on a result of the control of the operation of said at least one IoT device in the group chat room, wherein the creating comprises creating the group chat room by grouping the plurality of IoT devices based on a plurality of service categories associated with the IoT devices registered as the buddies, and wherein at least any one of the plurality of IoT devices has at least two service categories of a plurality of service categories, and controlling an operation of said at least any one of the plurality of IoT devices is differentiated depending on a service category associated with the group chat room.