Patent ID: 6980079

Claim:
A method of setting a transmitting condition of data of a first appliance in a home network system for controlling a plurality of appliances including the first appliance and a second appliance linked with the first appliance, the method comprising: transmitting by the first appliance a demand querying the second appliance whether to be operated in linkage with the first appliance; deciding by the first appliance based on a response from the second appliance that the second appliance should be operated in linkage with the first appliance; transmitting by the first appliance first demand information for querying information about a transmitting condition of data indicating an operational status of the second appliance for linked operation of the first appliance and the second appliance; receiving by the first appliance in response to the first demand information, response information from the second appliance; and transmitting by the first appliance to the second appliance second demand information to set the transmitting condition of data indicating the operation status of the second appliance for linked operation of the first appliance and the second appliance, when the response information does not contain information about the transmitting condition of the data indicating the operational status of the second appliance, or the transmitting condition has not yet been in the second appliance.