Patent ID: 8490147
Filing Date: 2013-07-16
Classification: H04L,H04N

Abstract:
1. A collection device of an audio/video (AN) network comprising: a content information requestor that requests a plurality of metadata of a plurality of contents respectively stored by a plurality of source devices on the AN network from the plurality of source devices, the plurality of contents comprising at least one of multimedia data stored by the plurality of source devices; a markup language (ML) document parser that receives a plurality of ML documents from the plurality of source devices respectively, in response to the request of the content information requestor, and parses the plurality of ML documents expressing the plurality of metadata in a plurality of formats of the plurality of ML documents; a list page generator that generates a list page of the plurality of contents respectively stored by the plurality of source devices, based on the parsed plurality of ML documents; and a web server that transmits the list page to a control device on the A/V network that renders the content stored by the first source device or the second source device in response to a user's selection of one of the contents from the list page, in order that the control device directly receives a stream of the content selected by the user from one of the source devices, wherein the plurality of metadata comprise position information that indicates a location at which the plurality of contents are stored by the plurality of source devices, a title of the plurality of contents, and a type of the plurality of contents.