Patent ID: 7983285

Claim:
A home-network universal middleware bridge system for providing interoperability between home devices connected to one another through different types of home network middlewares, the home-network universal middleware bridge system comprising: a bridge core having a first global dispatcher and a message router, the bridge core being configured for establishing/releasing a connection between bridge adaptors of different types of middlewares and analyzing/transferring a universal middleware message in order to interoperate home electronic devices connected through the different types of middlewares provided on a home network; and a plurality of bridge adaptors for connecting the bridge core to a corresponding middleware, and finding/releasing different types of devices, controlling/monitoring different types of devices and registering/creating an event for different types of devices through transforming a universal middleware bridge message to a local message of each middleware, wherein each bridge adaptor includes: a first local dispatcher for receiving a local message to be transmitted to an external bridge adaptor from a corresponding middleware; a device manager for transforming the local message to a message including UDT information and transferring the message to a second global dispatcher; an event processor for analyzing the universal middleware bridge message for requesting an event registering transferred through an external bridge adaptor and registering an event; a second global dispatcher for receiving the universal middleware bridge message from the bridge core; a UDT-LDT mapping information storing unit for storing mapping information between real local device information and virtual universal device information; and a VDP storing unit for storing information about real local devices and information about virtual universal devices.