Patent ID: 6701430
Filing Date: 2004-03-02
Classification: G05B

Abstract:
In a network having a plurality of electrical appliances communicating with an initialization terminal, each appliance storing at least (a) an installation place address which identifies a location of each appliance and (b) a terminal address which uniquely identifies each appliance, a method for initializing an appliance in the plurality of appliances on the network, comprising the steps of:(a) storing in the initialization terminal a designated installation place address and an official terminal address of the appliance; (b) sending from the initialization terminal to the appliance the designated installation place address; (c) receiving and matching the designated installation place address sent from the initialization terminal with the installation place address stored in the (d) changing the installation place address stored in the appliance to the designated installation place address received from the initialization terminal sent in step (b), if a match is not present in step (c); (e) requesting, by the appliance, the initialization terminal to send the official terminal address to the appliance, in response to changing the installation place address stored in the appliance in step (d); (f) sending from the initialization terminal to the appliance the official terminal address in response to the request in step (e); and (g) replacing the stored terminal address in the appliance with the official terminal address received from the initialization terminal.