Patent ID: 8248992

Claim:
A method of providing a home network device service to an external device, comprising: (a) acquiring information about a local service provided by at least one network device in a home network; (b) generating a document based on the acquired information, the document including information about a web service to allow the external device, which is outside of the home network, to call the local service; (c) distributing the generated document to the external device and receiving a web service calling message generated based on the distributed document; and (d) providing the local service from the home network to the external device in response to receiving the web service calling message, wherein the document generated in (b) is a WSDL (web service description language) document, and in (c), the WSDL document is distributed by registering the WSDL document in a UDDI (universal description, discovery, and integration) registry.