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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 12, 2015
Filed:
Sep. 17, 2009
Dirk Van DE Poel, Edegem, BE;
Dirk Van De Poel, Edegem, BE;
Thomson Licensing, , FR;
Abstract
The present invention concerns a gateway, and a method at a gateway for retrieving information from a device without requiring any configuration and installation at the device. To this end the invention relates to a method in a gateway device comprising an interface to a first network, an interface to a second network and a local web server. The method comprises the steps intercepting a request from a first device detected on the first network to a web server located on the second network, sending a webpage located on the local web server to the device, the webpage comprising means for, when the webpage is loaded by the device, retrieving information from that device and receiving information from the device, the information being retrieved from said device by the webpage.