Patent ID: 8245265

Claim:
An apparatus operable to convert digital content metadata comprising: a mapping module for converting received external digital content metadata which is TV-Anytime metadata into digital content metadata peculiar to a network which is Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) Content Directory service (CDS) metadata using a predetermined rule; and a search module for locating a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) using a Content Reference Identifier (CRID), which is a unique identifier pre-assigned to each program and in a format of the TV-Anytime metadata, where the search module, without further conversion into the UPnP metadata, identifies said URL, said URL accessing a program in the received TV-Anytime metadata, wherein the search module locates the URL after the TV-Anytime metadata is converted by the mapping module, and wherein the predetermined rule comprises: a first conversion method in which TV-Anytime metadata is mapped into at least one of a movie class and a video class of UPnP CDS, and a second conversion method in which a class layer of the UPnP CDS is extended to include at least a portion of the TV-Anytime metadata by defining a new UPnP CDS class, and wherein the unconverted data is stored in a predetermined area of a memory.