Patent ID: 8732288

Claim:
An apparatus for controlling a network using identification information of an object, the apparatus comprising: an extractor configured to receive data and extract identification information from the received data, wherein the identification information directly determines a receiving object that is to receive the data; and a controller to verify, from a database, forwarding information that is stored in correspondence to the identification information, and to transfer the data to a gateway associated with a second domain designated by the forwarding information, when the receiving object is not included in a first domain, wherein when the forwarding information is not verified from the database and a routing hint corresponding to identification information of the receiving object is not extracted from the data, the controller transmits a lookup information request to a route domain having a relatively upper domain grade with respect to the first domain, and receives forwarding information corresponding to identification information of the receiving object from a gateway associated with the route domain that receives the lookup information request.