PROXY-BRIDGE FOR CONNECTING DIFFERENT TYPES OF DEVICES

摘要

A proxy-bridge (200) for connecting UPnP compliant devices with Bluetooth compliant devices comprises SSDP support for discovery of available UPnP compliant devices and services; a Bluetooth SDP client for discovery of available Bluetooth devices and available Bluetooth services and a Bluetooth SDP server for communicating with Bluetooth SDP clients in the available Bluetooth devices; a converter (222) for converting the discovered Bluetooth devices and services into associated UPnP device and service information, and the discovered UPnP compliant devices and services into associated Bluetooth device, service, and/or profile information; a device and service announcer (224) for advertising at regular intervals; a UPnP adapter (228) for representing the Bluetooth devices towards the UPnP devices; a Bluetooth adapter for representing the UPnP compliant devices towards the Bluetooth compliant devices.