Designing an extension API for bridging Ginga iDTV applications and home services

IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics

Volumn 58, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 1077-1085

  De Lucena, Vicente Ferreira ^a   Viana, Nairon Saraiva ^b   Maia, Orlewilson Bentes ^b   Chaves Filho, João Edgar ^a   Da Silva, Waldir Sabino ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF AMAZONAS   (Brazil)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

GingaMiddleware; Home Gateway; interactive Digital TV; OSGi

Indexed keywords

BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES; COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES; CONNECTED HOME; CURRENT TRENDS; DIGITAL TV; GINGA-NCL; GINGAMIDDLEWARE; HOME GATEWAY; HOME NETWORKS; HOME SERVICES; IMPLEMENTATION PROCESS; INTERACTIVE DIGITAL TV; OPEN SERVICES GATEWAY INITIATIVES; OSGI; PROCESSING POWER; REAL APPLICATIONS; SERVICE OBJECTS; SERVICE PROVIDER; SET TOP BOX;

DIGITAL TELEVISION; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; MIDDLEWARE; PERSONAL COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

CONSUMER ELECTRONICS;

EID: 84867317868     PISSN: 00983063     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TCE.2012.6311359     Document Type: Article

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