Patent ID: 7337402

Claim:
A method of tuning comprising: facilitating in an inter-appliance communication network configuring at least one of a plurality of information presentation appliances which were defined as Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) compliant devices to act as control points, wherein a UPnP device advertises its abilities and is controlled by a control point, while a control point listens or searches for devices it is capable of controlling and exerts control over those devices, wherein at least one of the plurality of information presentation appliances facilitates disparate types of presentations, wherein disparate types of presentations include audio and still images, wherein the information presentation appliance is selected from the group comprising an electronic picture frame or a speaker; receiving user input via the at least one of the plurality of information presentation appliances, wherein user input comprises: selecting at least one category of information to be presented on the appliance, wherein the at least one category comprises user-defined keywords and blocked keywords created and entered by the user to further specify the category selection and aid in identifying the category if there is no match to the category selection within the inter-appliance communication network; specifying at least one user-defined blocked keyword to further identify categories that are not to be presented on the appliance; specifying information to be blocked from presentation on the appliance if the information contains the user-defined blocked keyword; creating a device description page using a markup language; storing data representing the categories of information specified by the user and the user-defined keyword entered by the user in the device description page; and transmitting the device description page with the data representing the categories of information and the user-defined and created keywords from the at least one of the plurality of information presentation appliances via the inter-appliance communication network.