Patent ID: 7256704

Claim:
A home appliance control system comprising: a plurality of home appliances provided in a building and controlled in response to control information transmitted over an Internet, said home appliances generating information about their controlled status and transmitting the generated status information over the Internet; a phoneline network alliance provided in the building; an external Internet network provided outside of the building; a phoneline network alliance connector that connects said home appliances to said phoneline network alliance such that said home appliances transmit and receive said status information and control information via said phoneline network alliance, wherein said phoneline network alliance connector comprises: a computer that assigns a private Internet protocol (IP) address to said home appliances; a first adapter that converts formats of information transmitted from said phoneline network alliance to said computer into an Ethernet standard format, and that converts formats of information received from said computer to said phoneline network alliance into a standard format of the phoneline network alliance; a second adapter that converts formats of information transmitted from said home appliances to said phoneline network alliance into a standard format of said phoneline network alliance, and that converts formats of information received from said phoneline network alliance to said home appliances into an Ethernet standard format; and a home appliance built-in communication module that stores said private IP address assigned by said computer, said home appliance built in communication module connecting said second adapter to said home appliances and converting data of said Ethernet standard format from said second adapter into that of a standard format of said home appliances; and a network that connects said phoneline network alliance connector to said external Internet network and controlling the connection such that said phoneline network alliance is connected to said external Internet network; wherein each of said home appliances connected to said home appliance control system receives data in an Ethernet standard format; and wherein said second adapter is connected to said built-in communication module to connect said home appliances to said phoneline network alliance so as to enable transmission and reception of data of said Ethernet standard format between said home appliances and said phoneline network alliance.