Patent ID: 8316140

Claim:
A method for controlling a device in a network of stations, comprising: providing a web server in which functionalities of a device to be controlled are made available on the web server in the form of one or more information pages generated using a description language and are preselected by a remote control device in order to control the device to be controlled, the network stations being designed to communicate on the basis of the UPnP standard, with UPnP standing for Universal Plug and Play, the network station in the network being classified in the type of a remote control device and a device to be controlled, in the network, network stations of the UPnP type MediaServer and of the UPnP type MediaRenderer may exist, wherein an information page incorporates an executable software module which is loaded and started in the remote control device in order to control the device to be controlled, wherein the executable software module being produced in the form of a JAVA applet, wherein security restrictions prevent the executable software module from discovering stations of a particular type; and sending a search request from the device to be controlled of the type media server to at least one other device in the network by means of an additionally implemented device ascertainment module in the device to be controlled of the UPnP type MediaServer for finding a network station of the particular UPnP type MediaRenderer or in the device to be controlled of the UPnP type MediaRenderer for finding a network station of the particular UPnP type MediaServer, wherein the device ascertainment module is not a JAVA applet and not being part of an additional implementation of a UPnP ControlPoint functionality in the device to be controlled.