METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROVIDING CONTENT SERVICE IN A/V NETWORK SUPPORTING WEB SERVICE TECHNIQUE

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method and apparatus for providing content services in an A/V network supporting web service techniques. SOLUTION: An A/V gateway includes; a content information requesting unit which requests information about contents to be provided by web services on a distributed network when a prescribed condition is satisfied; a TCP/IP transceiver which receives an ML document including the information about the contents as a response to the request from a service providing device providing the web services; a web service content management unit which analyzes the ML document including the information about the contents and generates a reconstructed ML document on the basis of the analysis result; a SOAP server transceiver which transmits the reconstructed ML document; and an A/V network transceiver which transmits a content stream corresponding to the information about the contents. COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT