Patent ID: 7310770

Claim:
A method for providing a user interface for controlling devices that are currently connected to a network, the method comprising the steps of, for one or more of said devices: (a) obtaining information from devices currently connected to the network, said information including device information; (b) generating a user interface description in one or more devices based at least on the obtained information, the user interface description in each device including at least one reference associated with the device information of each of said devices currently connected to the network, the device information including a user control interface description in each corresponding device; and (c) displaying one or more user interfaces each based on one of said one or more user interface descriptions, on one or more devices connected to the network capable of displaying a user interface, and based on user selection of each reference in a user interface, displaying a corresponding device user interface, for user control of said devices that are currently connected to the network.