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2. www.mobilevce.com © 2007 Mobile VCE Core 5: User Interactions Service Architecture Eamonn O’Neill Academic Coordinator Jim Grimmett Research Officer

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4. www.mobilevce.com © 2007 Mobile VCE What is the Architecture For? Many apps and services available – how do consumers know about them? How do companies get their apps and services into the hands of consumers? How do consumers find appropriate apps and services for ad hoc tasks? The answers to these questions are twofold: 1.Better enable service/app discovery 2.Better describe services/apps so we can filter them appropriately

5. www.mobilevce.com © 2007 Mobile VCE Architecture Requirements Architecture must Better enable service/app discovery Enable detailed service descriptions Be usable by a variety of companies who may wish to configure it in different ways Interoperate with many technologies Scalable Reliable Easy to use (zero conf?)

6. www.mobilevce.com © 2007 Mobile VCE How do we meet these Requirements? Use open, cross-platform standards Use peer-to-peer technologies to provide scaling and robustness Introduce common, well defined service descriptions using semantic technologies Integrate WAN and LAN networks to bridge existing service discovery technologies Develop flexible software that can be configured in many different ways – e.g. authenticated vs open, walled garden vs internet, consumer driven content vs company content

7. www.mobilevce.com © 2007 Mobile VCE Architecture Overview P2P Network The Internet Local Network Service Directory UPnP Bridge TCP/IP Connection UPnP Connection

8. www.mobilevce.com © 2007 Mobile VCE Business Models Key features of the architecture are the Control Points it makes available Control points allow a variety of stakeholders to decide how parts of the architecture are used (and by whom). This can result in very different business platforms e.g. the end-to-end control of the Apple App Store vs the more open Android Marketplace are very different platforms operating across what is essentially a similar architecture

9. www.mobilevce.com © 2007 Mobile VCE Thank you ! For further information please contact: Dr Walter Tuttlebee E-mail: walter.tuttlebee@mobilevce.com Tel:+44 1256 338604 WWW:www.mobilevce.com