Patent ID: 9615211
Date: 2017-04-04
CPC Classifications: H04L,H04W

Claim:
1. A server equipment for a home appliance network system, the server equipment constituting the home appliance network system along with a portable terminal and a home appliance, wherein the server equipment comprises: a communicator configured to communicate with the portable terminal and the home appliance; a locator configured to acquire information on a position of the portable terminal during communication through the communicator; an initial screen storage configured to store different position conditions and a collection of screen information defining respective content of initial screens corresponding to the position conditions, per portable terminal; and a retriever configured, if position information obtained based on the information on the position of the portable terminal acquired through the locator corresponds to any position condition of said different position conditions, to retrieve screen information defining content of an initial screen corresponding to the position condition from the initial screen storage, and to supply the screen information to the portable terminal.