SESSION ADMINISTRATION

摘要

Administration of sessions, such as but not necessarily user interface (UI) and media sessions, is contemplated. The session administration may include transferring and/or sharing a session from one client to another without requiring an application required to process the transferred/shared session to be operational when receiving an action used to initialize session administration.

主权项

1. A method for manipulating in-process sessions comprising:
determining a first session to be in-process between a media server and a first client; determining a second session to be in-process between a remote user interface (RUI) server and the first client; determining a UI server universal resource locator (URL) for the RUI server; determining a SessionToken for the first session; determining a user interface (UI) type for the second session; discovering a second client having capabilities sufficient to implement a UI operable with the UI type, the second client being discovered according to messages exchanged over a home network with the first client; and generating an action sufficient for initializing the UI of the second client to establish a third session with the media server matching the first session, the action including the UI server URL and the SessionToken, the second client utilizing the UI server URL to communicate the SessionToken to the UI server, the UI server utilizing the SessionToken received from the second client to facilitate the third session.