A mobile agent framework for ubiquitous media access

The trend in increased storage capacity of personal media devices has paralleled the increase in network capable and digital media capable devices such as televisions, computers, cell phones and other personal media devices. This implies that media will continue to be stored across a variety of personal network enabled devices despite available cloud-based media storage and sharing solutions. There has been a demonstrated desire to establish a convergent and ubiquitous media access experience among distributed media storage and devices. This is supported by the numerous attempts and development of media access applications, systems and techniques by industry and academia. The framework design in this paper demonstrates that the identified issues and limitations of existing media access solutions can be overcome through the utilization of a software agent media framework design.