Patent ID: 7607091

Claim:
A method for displaying positions of home network appliances, comprising: generating via an appliance identifier generator, a graphic object corresponding to an appliance identifier, that has an appliance type identifier and an appliance inherent identifier, for indicating a home network appliance connected to a home network; generating a text object corresponding to a position pointer for indicating a position of the home network appliance; and displaying, via a display unit, the graphic object corresponding to the appliance identifier with the text object corresponding to the position pointer, wherein a text size of the appliance identifier is adjustable, wherein the appliance type identifier is a friendly name and the appliance inherent identifier is a Universal Domain Number (UDN), and wherein the friendly name and the UDN are linked together to identify different appliances, wherein the linked friendly name and the UDN are stored in a position matching table in which the position matching table includes rooms of the home including the home network appliances linked to the position pointer as a top level node and all of the different appliances identified by the linked friendly name and the UDN in lower level nodes for each room such that it can be known if one home appliance of the same linked friendly name and the UDN is located in multiple rooms.