Extending SNS Media to DLNA Content Sharing Systems

Digital Living Network Alliance (DLNA) has developed guidelines for interoperability among home devices for media content sharing. However, the sharing of the content is limited inside local area networks. On the Internet, users can share the media resources through the Social Network Service (SNS) websites. In order that users in DLNA networks can easily access resources shared by friends in SNS such as photos, video clips and music, we propose SNS website Media Agent (SMA) in this paper. The SMA introduces the media resources shared by friends in SNS into home networks through OpenAPIs of SNS website. Users can browse shared resources conveniently at home on any devices according to Universal Plug and Play (UPnP).