EMBEDDED SYSTEM EMPLOYING A SOFTWARE PLATFORM FOR SHARING HARDWARE DEVICE AND CONTENTS RESOURCES

摘要

When a power is applied to the embedded electronic device and a power switch is turned on, an initialization program for a network resource management module, a hardware resource management module and a software resource management module constituting a resource sharing middleware of the embedded electronic device is run to initialize the system (step 1). A system initialization information is stored in an information storage (step X). Thereafter, the embedded electronic device transmits the information stored in the information storage through a convergence network to other embedded electronic devices having the resource sharing middleware identical to that of the embedded electronic device, or requests a collection of information of the other embedded electronic devices (step 3). Next, a synchronization process wherein the information collected through the convergence network is stored in the information storage of the embedded electronic device or stored using information storages of the embedded electronic device is performed (step 4). The collection and the synchronization of the information through the network are periodically carried out, and an update of the information in the information storage is periodically performed accordingly (step 5). On the other hand, the embedded electronic device carried out a hardware device and contents sharing through the convergence network if required (step 6).