DLNA devices, by definition, do not support remote connectivity. Even if attached to a LAN that is connected to the Internet, they can generally not be used to consume streamed or downloadable media. By providing a gateway in a mobile phone that exposes a 'remote Digital Media Server' on the LAN, content from different online sources can be made available on locally connected media renderers. Adding to this, the capabilities of the mobile phone can be used to publish presence information of the devices, for example to enable remote control of home appliances for energy management. This paper describes a demonstration of how Internet media services are delivered to devices in a personal network, using the mobile phone as a service control point.

The World Wide Web is evolving into a medium that will soon make it possible for conceiving and implementing situation-aware services. A situation-aware or situated web application is one that renders the user with an experience (content, interaction and presentation) that is so tailored to his/her current situation. This requires the facts and opinions regarding the context to be communicated to the server by means of a profile, which is then applied against the description of the application objects at the server in order to generate the required experience. This paper discusses a profiles view of the situated web architecture and analyzes the key technologies and capabilities that enable them. We conclude that trusted frameworks wherein rich vocabularies describing users and their context, applications and documents, along with rules for processing them, are critical elements of such architectures.