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Interdigital Ce Patent Holdings

Paul Praet

Kristof Martens

Jurgen Schoeters

Alex De Smedt

Bart Nys

A method for initiating a session within a publish/subscribe network, comprises: publishing a first topic by a first user interface of a first device, the topic identifying the first user interface and including an address-identifier identifying a second user interface of another device, triggering a request to start a session, starting a first media endpoint () by publishing the media endpoint to the network by using a second topic for the media end point representing the media end point and describing the capabilities of the media endpoint, and linking the first media endpoint with a second media endpoint () of the second user interface (), when the second user interface has accepted the session.

Publish/subscribe network enabled for multimedia signaling control, method for initiating a session within the network and respective network device

The apparatus is adapted for connecting a home network with a service provider network via a broadband connection for providing Internet services and comprises a media relay for receiving a data stream of the home network in accordance with a first protocol and sending the data stream in accordance with a second protocol to the service provider network for an outgoing connection, and vice versa for an incoming connection. The media relay comprises a media device interface for linking the media relay with the home network and for separating signaling data from the media data of the receiving data stream, a signaling switch for converting the signaling data in accordance with the first protocol to the signaling data in accordance with the second protocol, a media switch for converting the media data in accordance with the first protocol to the media data in accordance with the second protocol, and a network interface for linking the media relay with the service provider network and for combining the signaling data from the signaling switch and the media data from the media switch.

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