METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PRESENTING ENTITY NOT SUPPORTING UPnP AS UPnP DEVICE OR CONTENT

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method and an apparatus for presenting an entity not supporting a UPnP (universal plug and play) as the UPnP or contents. SOLUTION: A method for presenting an entity not supporting the UPnP as a UPnP device includes steps for: generating device description describing information on the entity in a format according to UPnP using the information on the entity; and presenting a role of the UPnP device for a control point which can recognize only UPnP devices based on the generated device description. Accordingly, UPnP can be applied to various entities. COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT