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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 26, 2008
Filed:
Nov. 09, 2001
Victoria E. Milton, Woodinville, WA (US);
Vladimir Sadovsky, Bellevue, WA (US);
Oren Rosenbloom, Redmond, WA (US);
Dennis Stewart W. Tansley, Issaquah, WA (US);
Victoria E. Milton, Woodinville, WA (US);
Vladimir Sadovsky, Bellevue, WA (US);
Oren Rosenbloom, Redmond, WA (US);
Dennis Stewart W. Tansley, Issaquah, WA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
The Universal Plug and Play architecture contemplates devices and control points that can automatically integrate themselves into a network and provide functionality to a user. Extensions are provided that allow an information presentation appliance to identify categories of information the user wishes that appliance to display. The appliance, acting as a device, can advertise functionality that only allows for the display of information that matches the categories selected by the user. Alternatively, the appliance can act as a control point and request information from information storage devices that matches the categories selected by the user. Using either alternative, the user is allowed to tune, at the appliance, the information that the appliance presents.