A Semantically Enhanced UPnP Control Point for Sharing Multimedia Content

Author

Rico, Mariano ; Corcho, Oscar ; Méndez, Víctor ; Gómez-Pérez, José Manuel

Author_Institution

Univ. Politec. de Madrid, Madrid, Spain

Volume

15

Issue

6

fYear

2011

Firstpage

58

Lastpage

64

Abstract

The Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) protocol lets users share multimedia content across devices and display it in multimedia renderers in home-based LANs. However, UPnP doesn´t support sharing this content between homes (for example, with friends, relatives, or workmates), and content can be difficult to find. A UPnP extension provides uniform access to multimedia content belonging to different homes, such as content from a user´s Facebook friends. In addition, an extended UPnP control point lets users add semantic annotations to their multimedia resources and link them to the linked data cloud to facilitate their discovery by others.

Keywords

local area networks; multimedia computing; peer-to-peer computing; protocols; rendering (computer graphics); semantic Web; UPnP control point; Universal plug and play; home based LAN; multimedia content sharing; multimedia renderers; multimedia resources; semantic annotations; Home automation; Home computing; Interconnected systems; Multimedia communication; Protocols; UPnP; annotation; connected home; multimedia;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Internet Computing, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1089-7801

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/MIC.2011.83

Filename

5936055