Patent ID: 8873570

Claim:
A method for bridging a session initiation protocol (SIP) device and a universal plug and play (UPnP) device, the method comprising: receiving a command from the SIP device to access the UPnP device, wherein the command includes bridging an address format that reuses a format of a SIP URI (Uniform Resource Identifier) to address a service associated with the universal plug and play UPnP device, wherein the address format comprises a SIP domain of the SIP device (“Domain”), a device identifier of the UPnP device (“deviceID”), and a service identifier of the service associated with the UPnP device that is requested by the command (“serviceID”), wherein the address format arranges the Domain, the deviceID, and the serviceID using a syntax that includes each of the deviceID, the serviceID, and the Domain; mapping the command to a series of actions to be executed by the UPnP device; transmitting one or more UPnP commands corresponding to the series of actions to the UPnP device; and receiving a response from the UPnP device based on the one or more UPnP commands.