Digital television middleware service for home networking domains
AssigneeMatsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
InventorsDennis Bushmitch, Rajesh Khandelwal, Alan Kaplan
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Abstract
The middleware service interacts with data carousel data objects and acts as a bridge between the data carousel and subscribed control points. The middleware service can serve a variety of objects, including streams, applications, stream events and also enables new applications and services to be deployed on home networks. It connects devices without broadcast channel connectivity to broadcast channel-resident data services.
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A middleware service operable to interconnect between a data carousel broadcast transport stream configured according to a predefined object data carousel application program interface and a control point configured according to a predefined plug-and-play protocol, comprising:
- a first communication mechanism operable to communicate with said broadcast transport stream using said predefined application program interface to obtain information about objects available on said data carousel;
- a second communication mechanism operable to communicate with said control point using said predefined plug-and-play protocol and to thereby expose said control point to said objects available on said data carousel.
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