Patent ID: 8954528
Filing Date: 2015-02-10
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A DLNA (Digital Living Network Alliance) content conversion device comprising: a data conversion unit adapted to convert a structure of navigation tags represented by HTML (HyperText Markup Language) data into a folder structure on a DLNA server having the same hierarchical structure as a hierarchical structure of the navigation tags; a communications unit adapted to communicate with a DLNA client and a web server, wherein upon receiving, from the DLNA client, a Browse request requesting transmission of a list of content held by a root container, the communication unit retrieves the HTML data that the web server holds, the data conversion unit converts a structure of navigation tags represented by the HTML data retrieved from the web server by the communication unit into the folder structure on the DLNA server, the data conversion unit sends a reply to the DLNA client with, as the list of content held by the root container, a navigation item linked to the HTML data retrieved from the web server by the communication unit and the folder structure obtained by converting the structure of the navigation tags, the data conversions unit converts, into a folder in the folder structure, a link tag describing a link to another file on the web server, the communication unit receives a Browse request to transmit a list of contents stored in the folder converted by the data conversion unit from the link tag, the communications unit retrieves, from the web serve, link destination data that is a link destination of the link tag, and the data conversion unit transmits the link destination data to the DLNA client after converting the link destination data to a format playable by the DLNA client.