Inter-Application Communication: A Prototype Implementation

A growing popularity of smart devices of various type, shape and form factor with multitude of applications from diverse categories and data are used to meet the demands of users in their digitally enriched living environment. The data sharing between these applications would be beneficial to the users when these heterogeneous devices are used together by them in their home network. The inter-application communication enables an application to discover, connect and share data with other applications across heterogeneous devices in a home network. This paper provides a prototype implementation of the inter-application communication in a home network along with a brief summary about its demand in near future.