Topical service provides context information for a home network
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1. A consumer appliance, comprising:
- an input component responsive to a user-input for initiating retrieval of data by the consumer appliance from a server based on a predetermined URL or an identifier associated with the consumer appliance, the data representing content information about the context of usage of the consumer appliance, wherein the consumer appliance does not require a user to access a web browser or other device in order for the consumer appliance to initiate retrieval of the data.
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Abstract
A consumer apparatus is made an intuitive component of a user-interface to a topical server. A specific user-interaction with the apparatus or its proxy on the home network causes a request to be sent to a specific server on the Internet based on a predefined URL. The home network receives a particular web page from the server with content information dedicated to the context of use of the apparatus.
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1. A consumer appliance, comprising:
an input component responsive to a user-input for initiating retrieval of data by the consumer appliance from a server based on a predetermined URL or an identifier associated with the consumer appliance, the data representing content information about the context of usage of the consumer appliance, wherein the consumer appliance does not require a user to access a web browser or other device in order for the consumer appliance to initiate retrieval of the data. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4)
- 5. A proxy device for representing a consumer appliance-on a home network, wherein the proxy device is responsive to a user-input to the consumer appliance for initiating, via a gateway, retrieval of data from a remote server based on a predetermined URL or an identifier associated with the consumer appliance, the URL or the identifier being stored on the home network.
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11. A remote control device for control of a consumer appliance included on a home network, wherein:
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the device has a key dedicated to enabling the consumer appliance to initiate without further user input retrieval of data from a server based on a predetermined URL or an identifier associated with the consumer appliance and stored on the home network; and the data represents content information specific to the context of usage of the consumer appliance. - View Dependent Claims (12)
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13. A method of enabling a service provider to provide a service via the Internet to a user of a consumer appliance having a predetermined identifier, the identifier being stored on a home network that includes the consumer appliance, the method comprising:
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enabling the user by a single user input to the consumer appliance to have the consumer appliance initiate sending a request with the identifier representative of a type of the consumer appliance to a server on the Internet through the home network; and based on the identifier, the server initiating access to a web page with content information about a context of using the consumer appliance. - View Dependent Claims (14, 15)
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