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Chin-Lin Hu, Wei-Shun Liao* and Yen-Ju Huang
Department of Communication Engineering
National Central University
Taoyuan, 320 Taiwan
*Graduate Institute of Communication Engineering
National Taiwan University
Taipei, 106 Taiwan
Many modern handheld devices feature functions of taking pictures, shooting video
clips, or recording audio sounds. However, such devices are usually equipped with small
display panels and poor acoustic equipments. In order to achieve better user experience
with high quality panel or audio stereo, users often need to transfer or copy digital media
contents to external powerful devices, like personal computers and home theater devices.
Nevertheless, it can be awkward or difficult for users to follow up a series of operations
of connection setup and media content transfer. In this paper, we present a mobile media
content sharing mechanism based the UPnP framework and wireless communication
technology in home network environments. As a result, users could conveniently share
media contents stored in mobile devices and play them by other home networked player
devices. The demonstration result shows that the developed mechanism is attractive and
of practicability and ease of use.
Received February 8, 2007; revised August 28, 2007; accepted January 4, 2008.
Communicated by Jonathan Lee.
1 Digital Living Home Alliance (DLNA) website: http://www.dlna.org/.
2 Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) Form website: http://www.upnp.org/.