Patent ID: 7957697

Claim:
An apparatus for controlling a plurality of home appliances using zigbee wireless communication, comprising: a memory for storing a control profile and an operation program, and operating the stored operation program; a display means for supporting interface with a user; a display input/output control means for controlling input/output of the display means; a first wireless network interface for transmitting/receiving wireless data to/from home appliances based on zigbee wireless communication; and a control means for forming at least two or more Wireless Personal Area Networks (WPANs) with the at least one of the respective home appliances based on the first wireless network interface, displaying a list of controllable home appliances for the respective WPAN formed based on device product information transferred from the home appliances through the WPAN, reading a control profile in the memory upon home appliances control request of the user, a control signal transform means for transferring the product information of the home appliances to the control means through the formed WPAN, receiving the control profile on the product information of the home appliances, transforming a wireless network control message transferred from the first wireless network into an infrared ray remote control signal based on the control profile, and controlling the home appliances, wherein each of the formed WPAN is based on the user being at a unique location, wherein the list of the controllable home devices for each of the respective formed WPANs have the respective home appliances which are exclusive of any of the other respective home appliance on the list of the controllable home devices in any of the other formed WPANs.