Automated Content Sharing in Extended Homes through Mobile Devices

Group content sharing and communication has matured from an interest to a need, but there have been few secure and cost effective solutions to safely support content exchange among user groups. This thesis work analyzes existing content sharing solutions, specifies their limitations and presents a new solution that overcomes some of those limitations. It allows a group of users to share their mobile contents generated during a specific amount of time interval in a secure, organized, automated and cost effective way. It uses current smart phones, mobile middleware, web technologies and utilizes home infrastructure as a central repository for all shared contents rather than third party services. A prototype of presented solution was developed which proved the feasibility of the concept and it can be used as a baseline for enhanced content sharing solutions. Key words and terms: content sharing, mobile phones, remote access, symbian, extended hom