INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD, RECORDING MEDIUM, AND PROGRAM

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an inexpensive system where devices connected to an IEEE 802 network are enabled to communicate with each other. SOLUTION: A UPnP control point 1 and a UPnP device 2 are connected to the IEEE 802 network 11. When controlling the UPnP device 2, the UPnP control point 1 describes control contents on the basis of AV/C commands used by an IEEE 1394 network. Then the UPnP control point 1 stores the AV/C command into a command on the basis of the SOAP(simple object access protocol) used by the IEEE 802 network 11. The command on the basis of the SOAP is transferred to the UPnP device 2 via the IEEE 802 network 11. The UPnP device 2 extracts the AV/C command from the command on the basis of the SOAP and carries out the corresponding processing.