MAPPING UNIVERSAL PLUG AND PLAY DISCOVERED ITEMS TO AN SMB LOCATION

• US 20160366211A1
• Filed: 07/27/2016
• Published: 12/15/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 07/28/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Inventors: Aiyar, Srinivas Kasy, Walter, James, Plastina, Daniel, Klemets, Anders, Schiefelbein, William F.
• Granted Patent: US 10,225,320 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 61/457 containing identifiers of data entities on a computer, e.g. file names
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/612 for unicast
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/06 specially adapted for file transfer, e.g. file transfer protocol [FTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/51 Discovery or management thereof, e.g. service location protocol [SLP] or web services

Abstract

An arrangement is provided in which a Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) device exposes a service for mapping a UPnP discovered content item to a server message block (SMB) location. The service is arranged to expose an SMB share path to a user at a remote client using a UPnP protocol, The user is then enabled with access to the share via SMB to gain file access, write changes or exercise file level control of the discovered content item. Authentication is optionally utilized to verify that the user is authorized to receive the SMB share location from the service or to verify that the user is authorized to access the SMB share.

Claims

1. A method performed on a universal plug-and-play (“

UPnP”

) device, the method comprising;

receiving, by the UPnP device from a UPnP control point, a request to access a UPnP-discovered file; and

returning, to the UPnP control point from the UPnP device in response to the received request, a server message block (“

SMB”

) location of the UPnP-discovered file, where the UPnP device is configured for allowing the UPnP control point to perform a write operation on the UPnP-discovered file at the returned SMB location of the UPnP-discovered file.

2. The method of claim 1 where the SMB location comprises a most direct SMB path to which a user originating the request has access.

3. The method of claim 1 where the UPnP-discovered file is a content item discovered over a UPnP network.

4. The method of claim 1 where the received SMB location comprises a path to the UPnP-discovered file.

5. The method of claim 1 where the request is received via a UPnP protocol.

6. The method of claim 1 where a user originating the received request is authorized to access the UPnP-discovered file at the received SMB location.

7. The method of claim 1 further comprising writing to the UPnP-discovered file at the received SMB location of the UPnP-discovered file.

8. A system comprising:

a processor;

memory; and

a universal plug-and-play (“

UPnP”

) device configured to;

receive, by the UPnP device from a UPnP control point, a request to access a UPnP-discovered file; and

return, to the UPnP control point from the UPnP device in response to the received request, a server message block (“

SMB”

) location of the UPnP-discovered file, where the UPnP device is configured for allowing the UPnP control point to perform a write operation on the UPnP-discovered file at the returned SMB location of the UPnP-discovered file.

9. The system of claim 8 where the SMB location comprises a most direct SMB path to which a user originating the request has access.

10. The system of claim 8 where the UPnP-discovered file is a content item discovered over a UPnP network.

11. The system of claim 8 where the received SMB location comprises a path to the UPnP-discovered file.

12. The system of claim 8 where the request is received via a UPnP protocol.

13. The system of claim 8 where a user originating the received request is authorized to access the UPnP-discovered file at the received SMB location.

14. The system of claim 8 where the UPnP device is further configured to write to the UPnP-discovered file at the received SMB location of the UPnP-discovered file.

15. At least one hardware computer-readable memory device that includes software that, based on execution by a universal plug-and-play (“

UPnP”

) device, configures the UPnP device to perform actions comprising;

receiving, by the UPnP device from a UPnP control point, a request to access a UPnP-discovered file; and

returning, to the UPnP control point from the UPnP device in response to the received request, a server message block (“

SMB”

) location of the UPnP-discovered file, where the UPnP device is configured for allowing the UPnP control point to perform a write operation on the UPnP-discovered file at the returned SMB location of the UPnP-discovered file.

16. The at least one hardware computer-readable memory device of claim 15 where the received SMB location comprises a path to the UPnP-discovered file, or where the SMB location comprises a most direct SMB path to which a user originating the request has access.

17. The at least one hardware computer-readable memory device of claim 15 where the UPnP-discovered file is a content item discovered over a UPnP network.

18. The at least one hardware computer-readable memory device of claim 15 where the request is received via a UPnP protocol.

19. The at least one hardware computer-readable memory device of claim 15 where a user originating the received request is authorized to access the UPnP-discovered file at the received SMB location.

20. The at least one hardware computer-readable memory device of claim 15, the actions further comprising writing to the UPnP-discovered file at the received SMB location of the UPnP-discovered file.