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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 25, 2014
Filed:
Dec. 09, 2005
Applicants:
Jean-françois Fleury, Beijing, CN;
Jean-baptiste Henry, Melesse, CN;
Mary-luc Champel, Marpire, FR;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Thomson Licensing, Issy les Moulineaux, FR;
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 15/173 (2006.01); G06F 15/16 (2006.01); H04L 29/08 (2006.01); H04L 29/06 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 29/08072 (2013.01); H04L 29/06 (2013.01);
Abstract
The invention enables a standard client according to the DVB-IPI phase 1 standard and connected within a local area network interconnected with a service delivery network via a non-transparent gateway to discover all the services offered to it both by the external delivery network an d by the servers in its local area network. The invention is based mainly on a service discovery aggregation functionality that we call 'SD & S proxy' implemented on any one of the devices connected to the local area network running jointly with an ad-hoc configuration of the gateway.