Patent ID: 8396941

Claim:
A method of aggregating audio and video (A/V) content located outside a Digital Living Network Alliance (DLNA) home network for access within the DLNA home network, comprising: at a DLNA-Internet bridging proxy server located outside of the DLNA home network: acquiring A/V content information from each of a plurality of web-based servers located outside of a home network, where the A/V content information identifies A/V content stored in association with each of the plurality of web-based servers and where each item of A/V content information acquired from each of the plurality of web-based servers comprises a received uniform resource identifier (URI) to an item of A/V content; mapping each received URI to a local reference URI; aggregating the A/V content information acquired from each of the plurality of web-based servers with the mapped local reference URI to each item of A/V content; providing the aggregated A/V content information to a DLNA client device within the home network; detecting a request for the item of A/V content associated with one mapped local reference URI; mapping the one mapped local reference URI to the received URI to the item of A/V content stored in the associated one of the plurality of web-based servers; and retrieving, in response to the request for the item of A/V content, the item of A/V content from the associated one of the plurality of web-based servers located outside of the home network that stores the item of A/V content using the received URI to the item of A/V content.