Patent ID: 7962097

Claim:
A method of identifying a device on a Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) network, the method comprising: receiving, by a content management device, descriptions of a plurality of content player devices connected to the UPnP network; displaying a device list which lists the plurality of content player devices based on the received descriptions; receiving, from a user, a selection, made on the device list, of a content player device among the plurality of content player devices which is to execute a content stored in the content management device; sending, by the content management device, a device notification request message to the selected content player device; and executing a device notification in response to the device notification request message, by the selected content player device, wherein the device notification physically exhibits on the UPnP network the selected content player device among the plurality of content player devices, and wherein the device list does not indicate correspondences between the plurality of content player devices on the device list and the plurality of content player devices on the UPnP network, respectively, so that, when the user selects the selected content player device on the device list to execute a content stored in the content management device at the selected content device, the device list does not indicate which of the plurality of content player devices shown on the UPnP network is to execute the content.