Patent ID: 8150963

Claim:
An electronic device, comprising: an interface unit; a processor configured to: communicate with one other electronic device; wherein a message communicated between the electronic device and the other electronic device includes a message type field and a transmission counter field; wherein the message type field indicates a type of the message; wherein the transmission counter field indicates how many times the same message is transmitted, and wherein a range of a value included in the transmission counter field is determined based on the type of the message indicated by the message type field, wherein an upper limit of the range in a case that the type of the message is a request message or a notification message is higher than an upper limit of the range in a case that the type of the message is a response message; receive, via the interface unit, a device information message from the other electronic device; and generate a profile for managing the other electronic device based on the device information message, wherein the profile comprises at least one of a device information file containing specific information on the other electronic device, a node parameter file containing a node parameter designated for the other electronic device, a device operation file containing data on an operational state of the other electronic device, and a scenario file for defining supplementary services for the other electronic device.