Patent ID: 7844748
Filing Date: 2010-11-30
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
1. A method of presenting an entity which does not support a standard as a device supporting the standard, the method comprising: generating a device description describing information on the entity in a format according to the standard; and presenting a role of the device supporting the standard for a control point, which can recognize only devices supporting the standard, based on the generated device description, wherein the information is input by the entity, and the generating of the device description comprises generating the device description using the input information if it is determined based on the input information that the entity has sufficient storage capacity to generate the device description, and the device description is generated using at least one of generating the device description using both the input information and additional information received from an external device if it is determined based on the input information that the entity does not have sufficient storage capacity to generate the device description; wherein the standard is Universal Plug and Play (UPnP).