Patent ID: 7289795
Filing Date: 2007-10-30
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. An event moderating architecture, comprising: an event publishing environment having a plurality of network devices broadcasting a plurality of event notification messages amongst themselves in accordance with Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) protocol; a mobile network device residing outside of the event publishing environment the mobile network device operable to formulate a subscription request for receiving event notification messages and transmit the subscription request via a signaling communication protocol to the event publishing environment, where the signaling communication protocol is different than the UPnP subscription-based communication protocol; an event moderation module adapted to receive the subscription request from the mobile network device and operable to subscribe to the event publishing environment in accordance with the UPnP subscription-based communication protocol, and, upon receipt of the subscription request, to translate the subscription request into a subscription with the event publishing environment, such that the event moderation module receives a subset of event notification messages from the event publishing environment using the UPnPEventListener object, stores the subset of event notification messages in an event pool and forwards select event notification messages in accordance with the subscription request to the mobile network device, wherein said event moderation module translates the subscription request into a state variable event template storing user customizable moderation parameters for events associated with a given UPnP service, and the user customizable moderation parameters include: (a) device and service of the state variable to be evented; and (b) names of state variables to be evented.