Patent ID: 7729282
Filing Date: 2010-06-01
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A configuration apparatus of a home network system, comprising: an interface means connected to the home network system; a storage means for storing a logical address; and a master means for confirming whether the logical address previously stored in the storage means is an initial logical address, generating a master search packet when the logical address previously stored in the storage means is an initial logical address, transmitting a master search packet to the home network system through the interface means, waiting for a response packet from the home network system, when the response packet is received from the network system, changing the initial logical address previously stored in the storage means into a predetermined logical address included in according to reception of the response packet, and when the response packet is not received from the network system, incrementing a counter value from a first value to a second value, greater than the first, the counter value representing a transmission number of the master packet, determining if the incremented counter value is greater than a preset value, and changing the logical address previously stored in the storage means into a basic logical address, and if the incremented counter value is not greater than the preset value, returning to the transmitting the master search packet to the network system.