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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 07, 2009
Filed:
Dec. 01, 2000
Ernö Kovacs, Stuttgart, DE;
Davide Mandato, Fellbach, DE;
Ernö Kovacs, Stuttgart, DE;
Davide Mandato, Fellbach, DE;
Sony Deutschland GmbH, Cologne, DE;
Abstract
The present invention relates to a communication device and a software for operating multimedia applications in one or more communication networks, with a computing manager unit () for managing and providing multimedia applications on the basis of a communication with one or more communication devices in the one or more communication networks, whereby the computing manager unit () controls a device discovery manager unit () for detecting the availability of one or more devices and/or one or more communication networks, a service discovery manager unit () for providing available services from and/or for said one or more communication networks, and a virtual device manager unit () providing a graphical user interface for controlling devices and/or services of the one or more communication networks. The present invention particularly enables mobile multimedia applications to effectively use mobile ad-hoc networks in a simple and effective way.