Resource Sharing between Social Network and UPnP Network

Abstract

Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) is a technology for devices interconnection and resource sharing in the home network. However, the UPnP network has a construct. User can only access local resources within the UPnP network, but user is Unable to access the resources outside the home network such as the resources of the user on the Internet. Now social network is popular, the user has a lot of resources in their own social network. How can the user realize resource sharing on social network to the UPnP network? It can make user can easily access to the user’s social resources on the network in their own UPnP home network. We found that most of the social network based on open platform OAuth authorization to third party that call the API to access the resources in social network. We now put forward a solution that is based on the architecture of UPnP AV, we can extend the media server’s function that call the social network open platform API to realize the resources sharing between social network and the UPnP network.