Patent ID: 7197579

Claim:
A digital home electronic device connected to a local network and receiving commands from devices connected to the local network or devices connected to a public network, the digital home electronic device comprising: a storing unit configured to store a plurality of correspondence data each formed by correlating each command with one piece of target device information, wherein the target device information indicates source devices permitted to send the correlated commands respectively in the correspondence data, the commands are classified according to classification information describing prescribed criteria in the correspondence data, and the source devices indicate nodes checked by the digital home electronic device in advance, as trustworthy nodes in the local network and/or the public network; a selection unit configured to select the correspondence data desired by a user, among the plurality of the correspondence data, according to a switching operation of the user; a command execution judgement unit configured to judge whether or not to execute a received command according to the received command, a source information indicating a source device which sends the received command, and the correspondence data selected by the selection unit, by judging whether the source information and one particular piece of the target device information correlated with the received command in the correspondence data coincide or not; and a main unit configured to carry out a prescribed operation according to the received command in a case in which the received command is executed; wherein the main unit is connected to the storing unit and the command execution judgement unit via an inner interface, and the prescribed criteria include at least one criterion indicating whether or not an execution of a command by the digital home electronic network is dangerous to a human life or safety.