Recording of scheduled broadcast in upnp

• US 20070074163A1
• Filed: 10/18/2004
• Published: 03/29/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 10/18/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V. (Koninklijke Philips N.V.)
• Original Assignee: Koninklijke Philips N.V.
• Inventors: Li, Hong, Proidl, Adolf, Van Gassel, Jozef, Mekenkamp, Gerhardus, Denissen, Adrianus Johannes
• Application Number:
  US10/577,099
• Publication Number:
  US 20070074163A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 717/120
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0806 for initial configuration or provisioning, e.g. plug-and-play
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0809 Plug-and-play configuration
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/0886 Fully automatic configuration
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 41/12 Discovery or management of network topologies

Abstract

A method is provided for enabling to establish a connection between multiple UpnP-compliant resources, wherein each of the resources has a respective ConnectionManager service. The method comprises configuring the respective ConnectionManager services so to enable a UpnP Control Point to use the respective services for negotiating the connection between the respective resources to be established at a time determined in advance.

Claims

1. A method of enabling to establish a connection between multiple UPnP-compliant resources, wherein each of the resources has a respective ConnectionManager service, and wherein the method comprises configuring the respective ConnectionManager services so as to enable a UPnP Control Point to use the respective services for negotiating the connection between the respective resources to be established at a time determined in advance.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the resources comprise a tuner for tuning to a broadcast channel and a recorder for recording a broadcast.

3. A method of establishing a connection between multiple UPnP-compliant resources, wherein each of the resources has a respective ConnectionManager service, and wherein the method comprises using the respective ConnectionManager services configured so as to enable a UPnP Control Point to use the respective services for negotiating the connection between the respective resources to be established at a time determined in advance.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the resources comprise a tuner for tuning to a broadcast channel and a recorder for recording a broadcast.

5. A UPnP compliant device with a ConnectionManager service that is configured so as to enable a UPnP Control Point to use the service for negotiating with another ConnectionManager service a connection with another UPnP-compliant device to be established at a time determined in advance.

6. The device of claim 5 comprising a tuner for tuning to a broadcast channel.

7. The device of claim 5, comprising a recorder for recording content information.

8. (canceled)