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US 2003/0200314 A1Published application
Remote access to aggregated grouping of distributed content
AssigneeGateway, Inc.
InventorMichael J. Giffin
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Abstract
A method, apparatus, and signal-bearing medium that may create and aggregate service elements that describe media content in a network. The service elements may be used to access the media content from a variety of clients in the network, regardless of where the service elements were created.
Claims20
A method, comprising:
- discovering a plurality of remote services in a network;
- creating a plurality of service elements that describe the respective plurality of remote services;
- and
- providing the plurality of service elements to an aggregator service.
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A signal-bearing medium encoded with instructions that when executed on a processor comprise:
- retrieving an aggregated group of service elements from an aggregator service;
- finding content data associated with the group of service elements;
- and
- displaying the content data.
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A signal-bearing medium encoded with a data structure to be accessed by a controller that executes on a processor, wherein the data structure comprises:
- a remote service identifier that identifies a remote service;
- a remote service type that describes the remote service;
- and
- an element identifier that identifies remote content associated with the remote service, wherein the controller is to create the data structure from information retrieved from the remote service.
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A system comprising:
- a first server comprising an aggregator service;
- and
- a client to discover a remote service and media content associated with the remote service, create a service element that identifies the service and the media content, and provide the service element to the aggregator service.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.