摘要 |
<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To establish interfaces or interchanges between consumer electronic (CE) devices and networking services accessible over the Internet. <P>SOLUTION: The method includes the steps of: establishing an intermediate application programming interface (API) between a plurality of remote CE devices and one or more social networking APIs each corresponding to a social networking service; translating, through an interchange service, communications between the intermediate API and the one or more social networking APIs; identifying modifications to a first social networking API; implementing a first update to the interchange service such that translations provided by the updated interchange service between the intermediate API and the first social networking API are consistent with the modifications to the first social networking API; and avoiding updating at each of the plurality of CE devices relative to the modifications to the first social networking API. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2013,JPO&INPIT |