Service Discovery

摘要

Service discovery and other operations related to enabling devices to announce, discover or otherwise control their services and/or the services offered or available from other devices is contemplated. The service discovery may facilitating service discovery for services sourced from devices inside and outside of a network and/or from devices having incompatible messaging capabilities.

主权项

1. A method of facilitating service discovery for devices connected to a local area network (LAN) associated with a gateway configured to interface communications between the LAN and a wide area network (WAN) connected to the Internet, the method comprising:
determining a plurality of records for services available to one or more devices connected to the LAN, each record including information sufficient for facilitating access to a service associated therewith; associating a uniform resource identifier (URI) with a listing of services selected from the plurality of records; providing the listing of services to a device connected to the LAN in response to receipt of a discovery message transmitted to the URI, the listing of services being sufficient for the device to facilitate displaying the corresponding services for user engagement.