Patent ID: 7831696

Claim:
An apparatus for providing device information via a network comprising: a message processing unit which converts device information, including at least one of basic information, a service list, and a status parameter list, of a domestic device into database schema based on a registration request message received from the domestic device; a storage unit which stores the converted device information of the domestic device; a data processing unit which processes a transaction of the device information in an Extensible Markup Language format stored in the storage unit in responding to a information request of the domestic device; and an information producing unit which produces device information in a web page format based on the device information in the XML format received from the data processing unit and provides the produced device information in the web page format to the message processing unit when a request for information is made by a user; wherein the message processing unit outputs a polling message for polling whether the domestic device is in an active mode or not, and renews the device information of the domestic device stored in the storage unit based on a reply message to the polling message received from the domestic device.