Patent ID: 6759946
Filing Date: 2004-07-06
Classification: H04B

Abstract:
A home appliance network comprising:a telephone communication network for communicating with a remote access device; an AC power line network connected to power line communication devices via device adapters; a power line communication interface configured to convert between application layer power line communication frames and physical layer power line network communication frames, the application layer power line communication frames communicated between the remote access device and the power line communication interface on the telephone communication network and the physical layer power line network communication frames communicated between the power line communication interface and the device adapters on the power line network, wherein the application layer power line communication frames communicated from the remote access device include an action field for identifying a selected one of a read action and a write action; and wherein each application layer power line communication frame further comprises: an authentication field; a device ID field; a location ID field; an object property field; and a property value field.