WEB GAME UI BROWSER TV

While there has been prior work on platforms for converged media, our platform is unique in that it provides open, intelligent, and interoperable facilities for sharing media and services across network infrastructures. The platform includes support for managing multi-user sessions across networks, context-aware recommendations, and cross-network identity management. The goal of our work is to overcome this problem by means of an open and intelligent service platform that allows applications to easily combine media and services from different network infrastructures, and enables consumers to easily share them in an integrated way. In addition to limiting people's media experience, this also hinders the introduction of new services and business models as providers cannot easily develop and operate cross-network services. As a result, users cannot easily combine media and services from different network infrastructures and share them in an integrated manner with their family and friends. A major problem, however, is that media and services do not interoperate across networks because they use different user identities, metadata formats, and signaling protocols, for example. Today's consumers have a wide variety of interactive media and services at their disposal, for instance, through IPTV networks, the Internet, and in-home and mobile networks. Incoming synchronisation events are handled by a callback function registered by the TPMUA (registerSyncEventListener()). If needed, this channel will also provide event ordering functionality required for proper synchronization. The TPMUA can also ask for the initialization of an audio-video link and can use a synchronization channel for sending synchronisation events (sendSyncEvent()), such as information about a user's gaming actions.

If the invitations are accepted, the game will be loaded into the application frame of each television. After the user selects his or her opponents, an invitation for the game is sent (initiateSharedActivity()) to each friend. The TPMUA can use this information to generate an attractive welcome screen. The returned information contains the screen names of the user's friends and possibly also their avatars. When a user browses to this service and starts a new game, the service can request information (getCurrentUser()) about the user and his online friends (getBuddyList()). As an example of a 3 rd party multi-user application (TPMUA) we take an online poker game service.

WEB GAME UI BROWSER TV

Possible UI layout of the browser We will explain the proposed Social TV API by means of the following usage scenario.

Web game ui browser