Abstract: An embodiment of the present invention is a technique to provide back-up storage. A service is searched for back-up storage from a device on a home network. The device advertises presence on the home network. The device is queried for information on the back-up storage. The device is configured to receive a file using the information. The file is transferred to the device.

Abstract: In some embodiments, a method for the distribution of emergency alert information over an IP home network is presented. In this regard, an alert agent is introduced to receive an emergency alert, to discover remote user interface (RUI) clients on a home network, to construct custom alerts for the discovered RUI clients and to push the custom alerts to the discovered RUI clients. Other embodiments are also disclosed and claimed.

Abstract: An embodiment is a cross-layer video quality manager that coordinates a plurality of video processing and network processing techniques to improve the quality of experience of, for example, a streaming video.

Abstract: An embodiment of the present invention is a technique to provide back-up storage. A service is searched for back-up storage from a device on a home network. The device advertises presence on the home network. The device is queried for information on the back-up storage. The device is configured to receive a file using the information. The file is transferred to the device.

Abstract: A method includes loading video data into packets and appending headers to the packets. Each of the headers includes a first field and a second field. The first field includes a data value to indicate an importance of a respective packet relative to other packets. The second field includes an importance level sequence number to indicate a position of the respective packet in a sequence of packets which have the same importance level as the respective packet.

Abstract: Disclosed are various exemplary embodiments concerning bridging a local bus, such as a Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) bus not typically visible to a public network, such as a local area network, wide area network, the Internet, etc., with such networks. Such bridging enables, among other things, rich usage scenarios for local bus devices when made generally available to a network. For example, in a digital home or digital office environment, providing network access to local bus devices, such as cameras, security devices, storage devices, etc., provides for many interesting synergistic uses of conventional network devices in combination with exposed local bus devices. Policies may be used to control exposure; for example, a local bus or its enclosing machine may have policies for controlling access. Or, a local network, e.g., a digital home or digital office, may also have policies to manage local bus exposure, such as to a broader network such as the Internet.

Abstract: A method and system for a discoverable transcoder server to communicatively couple to a media server to receive media signals from the media server. The transcoder server transparently converts the media signals to a format compatible with at least one media renderer, and the transcoder server transmits the converted signals to the at least one media renderer.