A Portable Universal Plug and Play Home System for Sharing Multimedia Contents

Based on the Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) home network, this study established a portable plug-and-play multimedia sharing system, comprised of a portable media sharing server and portable media player. With this server, multimedia access services not yet defined by the UPnP architecture could support services shared by iPod, DVD, IP-Cam, and digital TV, in order that users could share multimedia files from any computer through a USB drive program under the same home network environment, without the need of complex installation software and settings. Finally, with the portable media player developed by this study, users not adept in computer operations of mouse or keyboard could have easy access to such multimedia messages, and play them on any computer.