Patent ID: 9736205
Date: 2017-08-15
CPC Classifications: G06F,H04L,H04N,H04W

Claim:
1. A media share control apparatus for a media share service comprising: a network interface configured to communicate with a media server and a media reproducing apparatus; and a controller comprising: wherein the media server includes a streaming server for transmitting a media stream to the media reproducing apparatus and uni-directionally transmits the media list to the controller, wherein both the media service daemon of the controller and the media reproducing apparatus include a web socket element for a bi-directional service discovery between the media service daemon and the media reproducing apparatus and bi-directionally communicating messages with the media service daemon and the media reproducing apparatus based on a web socket-based protocol, wherein the media reproducing apparatus includes the web application for the media share service, wherein the media reproducing apparatus receives a media stream of the selected content based on a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) of the selected content, and wherein the controller is further configured to control a reproduction of the selected content, which is displayed through the executed web application on the media reproducing apparatus, based on a GUI provided on the media share control apparatus.