System and method for controlling and managing the delivery of digital media to devices on home networks
AssigneeTelcordia Technologies, Inc.
InventorsBeauford W. Atwater, Munir Cochinwala, Ashish Jain
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AssigneeTelcordia Technologies, Inc.
InventorsBeauford W. Atwater, Munir Cochinwala, Ashish Jain
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A system and method for controlling and managing delivery of digital media to devices on a home network is presented. The system comprises an application server executed by a physical or virtual CPU, the application server notified by each device when each device initializes, a plurality of plug-ins, each device corresponding to at least one plug-in, and a control plane, wherein the control plane receives notice of an event from one device and sends the notice of the event to the application server, which sends the notice of the event to the plug-in corresponding to the one device having the event, and the plug-in performs the event. The plug-in can perform the event by streaming content data to a desired device. The application server can maintain user information and when the plug-in performs the event, the plug-in updates the user information. The application server can have an interactive program guide.
A system for controlling and managing delivery of digital media to devices on a home network, comprising:
A method for controlling and managing delivery of digital media to devices on a home network, comprising steps of:
A computer readable storage medium storing a program of instructions executable by a machine to perform a method for controlling and managing delivery of digital media to devices on home networks, comprising steps of:
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