AUDIO VISUAL ARCHITECTURE

摘要

A method to support dynamic interconnection between audio visual devices in a home automation system, where each hardware device has a mirror image in a computer system represented by an object. These objects, and their ports (i.e. input and output plugs) are organised in a hierarchical way. The flow of data (stream) from one device to another one is driven by the computer system through a network, a session and a management system, which respectively deal with temporal connections, virtual circuits, (virtual paths) and streams between the components.