METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ACCESSING SERVICE DISCOVERY METADATA

摘要

Provided is a method and apparatus for accessing service discovery metadata. Advance Internet Protocol Television (AIT) devices may access discovery metadata of different schemes using a generic protocol based on the moving picture experts group (MPEG) Extensible Middleware (MXM). According to the above access scheme, end-user devices, description service provider devices, and IPTV service provider devices may exchange metadata. Subsequent modification and addition of a metadata scheme may be supported.