CN103067232A - Method for Playing Webpage Data under Digital Home Network Alliance - Google Patents

Abstract

The invention discloses a method for playing webpage data under a digital home network alliance. The method includes linking a digital media controller to a digital media player; the digital media controller is linked to an internet via an access point; the digital media player is linked to the internet through the access point; the digital media controller transmits a website to the digital media player; and the digital media player plays the webpage data of the website. By the method, a plurality of multimedia devices under the digital living network alliance can share files with each other, and can also share viewed webpages or network films with each other.

Description

Method for Playing Webpage Data under Digital Home Network Alliance

technical field

The invention relates to a method for displaying network data, in particular to a method for sharing network data among multiple multimedia devices under the Digital Home Network Alliance.

Background technique

There are usually multiple multimedia devices in a family, such as desktop computers, tablet computers, notebook computers, and smart phones. To share files from one multimedia device, such as videos, music, and photos, to another multimedia device, it is often necessary to copy the files to be shared to a flash drive, and then connect the flash drive to the multimedia device to be shared for file transfer. The above-mentioned file sharing process through the flash drive obviously causes great inconvenience and wastes time to the user because the flash drive must be repeatedly inserted into the device or pulled out from the device.

In response to the above needs, the architecture of the Digital Living Network Alliance (DLNA) has been proposed at present. DLNA sets standards for multimedia devices such as mobile multimedia devices, personal computers, televisions, players, mobile devices, etc., so that the above multimedia devices can access each other's files by connecting to the network. DLNA mainly defines the following types of multimedia devices:

1. Digital Media Server (DMS: Digital Media Server):

Devices that provide access to and recording of digital media, including VCRs, personal computers, home theater equipment with hard drives, and image capture devices.

2. Digital Media Display (DMP: Digital Media Player):

Including devices capable of playing media files provided by the DMS through the network, such as TVs, home theaters, personal digital assistants (PDAs), printers, and multimedia mobile phones.

3. Digital Media Controller (DMC: Digital Media Controller):

It is used to find media files that can be played on the DMS, and assign them to multimedia devices on the Digital Media Renderer (DMR) that can play the content, such as smart phones, digital cameras that support Internet access, and PDAs. DMC is used, and an intelligent terminal device with a basic operation interface can also be used as a DMC.

4. Digital Media Player:

It is used to receive the control signal of DMC, and can obtain the file content on DMS for playing.

DLNA also includes a universal plug and play (Universal Plug and Play, UPnP) architecture, its function is that when a multimedia device is linked to a network access point, other multimedia devices linked to the same network access point will be It can immediately know that there are new devices added, so that multimedia devices can share files with each other. Therefore, when using a multimedia device conforming to the UPnP specification, the user can easily connect the multimedia devices to each other without installing any driver.

Although DLNA has the above-mentioned conveniences, the types of files that can be shared between multimedia devices are still quite limited. In addition to frequently sharing photos, users also hope to share online videos they are watching. However, in the current DLNA application, when a user watches an online video on a multimedia device, it is still impossible to easily share the online video being watched to other multimedia devices so that other users can watch it together.

Contents of the invention

An embodiment of the present invention provides a method for playing webpage data under the Digital Living Network Alliance (Digital Living Network Alliance, DLNA), including a digital media controller linked to a digital media player; the digital media controller via a storage The access point is linked to an Internet; the digital media player is linked to the Internet through the access point; the digital media controller transmits a URL to the digital media player; and the digital media player plays webpage data of the URL .

Through the method of the present invention, multiple multimedia devices under DLNA can not only share files with each other, but also share webpages or network videos being watched.

Description of drawings

FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram of playing webpage data under DLNA according to the first embodiment of the present invention.

Fig. 2 is a schematic diagram of playing webpage data under DLNA according to the second embodiment of the present invention.

Fig. 3 is a flowchart of playing webpage data under DLNA according to the first embodiment of the present invention.

Fig. 4 is a flow chart of playing webpage data under DLNA according to the second embodiment of the present invention.

Wherein, the reference signs are explained as follows:

10 Digital Media Controller

20 Digital Media Player

30, 32 URL

40 processors

50 access points

60 Servers

70 Internet

100, 200 DLNA system

301 to 305, 401 to 405 steps

Detailed ways

Please refer to FIG. 1 . FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram of playing webpage data under the DLNA system 100 according to the first embodiment of the present invention. The DLNA system 100 includes a digital media controller 10 , a digital media player 20 and an access point 50 . The digital media controller 10 can be a smart phone, a notebook computer, a desktop computer or a tablet computer, and the digital media controller 10 is connected to an Internet 70 through the access point 50 . The digital media player 20 can be a smart phone, a notebook computer or a tablet computer, or a device with a control interface and a display interface. The digital media player 20 includes a processor 40 which can be built in or externally connected to the digital media player 20 , and the digital media player 20 is also connected to the Internet 70 through the access point 50 . Through the configuration of the first embodiment, the digital media controller 10 and the digital media player 20 can be linked to each other via the access point 50 or other connection methods.

After the digital media controller 10 is connected to the digital media player 20 , it can send a URL 30 to the digital media player 20 according to the web page data to be shared by the user. After receiving the URL 30 , the digital media player 20 will link to the URL 30 via the access point 50 to retrieve the webpage and play the content of the webpage. Although only one digital media player is depicted in FIG. 1 , the digital media controller 10 can also be connected to multiple digital media players and share the URL 30 at the same time.

The access point 50 can be a network access point connected to the Internet 70 for providing network connection to the digital media controller 10 and the digital media player 20 . The digital media controller 10 and the access point 50 can be linked wirelessly or wiredly, and the digital media player 20 and the access point 50 can also be linked wirelessly or wiredly, and the wireless link Ways include Wireless Fidelity (Wireless Fidelity, Wi-Fi), Bluetooth and other wireless communication technologies.

The URL 30 can be a URL of an online video website or a blog (Blog), or a URL of any website. When the user wants to share the network data viewed by the digital media controller 10 to the digital media player 20, the digital media controller 10 adds the URL 30 of the website to be connected to a packet, and then sends the packet to The digital media player 20 enables the digital media player 20 to execute the URL 30 in the packet to connect to the website to be connected after receiving the packet, and play the network data of the website.

In the first embodiment, the digital media player 20 plays the webpage data of the website 30 through the processor 40 . Please refer to FIG. 2. FIG. 2 is a schematic diagram of playing web page data under DLNA system 200 according to the second embodiment of the present invention. The difference between DLNA system 200 and DLNA system 100 is that in DLNA system 200, digital media controller 10 is a digital The media player 20 receives the website address 32 sent by a server 60 to play the webpage data of the website address 32 , which is different from the digital media controller 10 itself transmitting the website address 30 to the digital media player 20 in the DLNA system 100 . The server 60 can be a multimedia device such as a desktop computer, a tablet computer or a notebook computer, and the server 60 is externally connected to the digital media player 20 through a signal line, network line or wireless link.

In the second embodiment, after the digital media controller 10 is connected to the digital media player 20 and the server 60, the server 60 can send the URL 32 to the digital media player 20 according to the web page data that the user wants to share. After receiving the URL 32, the digital media player 20 will link to the URL 32 via the access point 50 to retrieve the webpage and play the content of the webpage. Although only one digital media player 20 and one server 60 are depicted in Fig. 2, the digital media controller 10 can also be linked to multiple digital media players and multiple servers at the same time, and control the above-mentioned devices to share webpages among each other data.

The web page data of the URL 32 can be a URL of an online video website or a blog, or any website. When the user controls the server 60 to share the URL 32 to the digital media player 20 through the digital media controller 10, the server 60 adds the URL 32 of the website to be connected to a packet, and then sends the packet to the digital media player The device 20 enables the digital media player 20 to play network data according to the URL 32 in the packet after receiving the packet.

Please refer to FIG. 3. FIG. 3 is a flow chart of playing webpage data under the DLNA system 100 in the first embodiment of the present invention, as follows:

Step 301: link the digital media controller 10 and the digital media player 20 to the access point 50;

Step 302: link the access point 50 to the Internet 70;

Step 303: the digital media controller 10 transmits the website address 30 of the Internet 70 to the digital media player 20;

Step 304: the digital media player 20 links to the website 30 via the access point 50;

Step 305: The digital media player 20 plays the webpage data of the website 30.

Please refer to Fig. 4, Fig. 4 is a flow chart of playing web page data under the DLNA system 200 in the second embodiment of the present invention, as follows:

Step 401: link the digital media controller 10, the digital media player 20 and the server 60 to the access point 50;

Step 402: link the access point 50 to the Internet 70;

Step 403: the digital media controller 10 controls the server 60 to transmit the website address 32 of the Internet 70 to the digital media player 20;

Step 404: the digital media player 20 links to the website 32 via the access point 50; and

Step 405: The digital media player 20 plays the web page data of the website 32.

The applications of wireless links mentioned in the embodiments of the present invention, including Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and any other wireless communication technologies that can be applied to the method of the present invention belong to the scope of the present invention. Through the method of the present invention, multiple multimedia devices under DLNA can not only share files with each other, but also can share webpages or network videos being viewed with each other.

The above descriptions are only preferred embodiments of the present invention, and all equivalent changes and modifications made according to the claims of the present invention shall fall within the scope of the present invention.

Claims (7)

1. method of playing web data under DLNA comprises:

One Digital Media controller and a digital media player are linked to an access point;

This access point is linked to an internet;

The method is characterized in that also and comprise:

This Digital Media controller is sent to this digital media player with a network address of this internet;

This digital media player links to this network address via this access point; And

This digital media player is play the web data of this network address.

2. the method for claim 1 is characterized in that, this Digital Media controller is sent to this digital media player with this network address and comprises that this Digital Media controller is that mode with package is sent to this digital media player with this network address.

3. method of playing web data under DLNA comprises:

One Digital Media controller, a digital media player and a server are linked to an access point;

This access point is linked to an internet;

The method is characterized in that also and comprise:

This Digital Media controller is controlled this server and is transmitted a network address of this internet to this digital media player;

This digital media player links to this network address via this access point; And

This digital media player is play the web data of this network address.

4. method as claimed in claim 3, it is characterized in that this Digital Media controller is controlled this server and transmitted this network address to this digital media player and comprise that this Digital Media controller controls this server and transmit this network address to this digital media player in the mode of package.

5. such as claim 1 or 3 described methods, it is characterized in that the web data that this digital media player is play this network address comprises that this digital media player is the web data of playing this network address by a built-in processor.

6. such as claim 1 or 3 described methods, it is characterized in that the web data that this digital media player is play this network address comprises that this digital media player is the web data of playing this network address by an external processor.

7. method as claimed in claim 6 is characterized in that, this external processor is a desktop PC, a flat computer or a mobile computer.

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