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AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsJean-Paul Accarie, Stephane Bizet
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A method for the management of devices in a communications network comprises at least one source device and at least one destination device, the destination device or devices being interconnected to the source device or devices by means of at least one other device of the network called an access device or devices. This method comprises the following steps implemented by an access device compatible with a predetermined audiovisual content description format: reception of a request, coming from a destination device, called a requesting destination device, for obtaining a list of audiovisual contents available on the access device; creation of a list, called a requested list, comprising a piece of information representing at least one source device, the representative information being described according to the audiovisual content description format; in response to the request, sending the requesting destination device the list created during the creation step.
Method for the management of devices in a communications network comprising at least one source device and at least one destination device, said destination device or devices being interconnected to said source device or devices by means of at least one other device of said network, called an access device or devices,
Access device compatible with a predetermined audiovisual content description format interconnecting one or more destination devices to one more source devices within a communications network, wherein it comprises:
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