| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立臺灣大學 === 電機工程學研究所 === 89 === We propose an architecture, Universal Plug-in, for thin client which is extensible in terms of its processing cabability for generic file formats. Universal Plug-in releases end users from the suffering of upgrading software or hardware, an overhead often faced by both thin client users and
manufacturers. Since most of the thin client devices are equipped with fixed memory, storage, CPU, software, and limited Internet-access bandwidth, there are certain works that are too computing-intensive for the thin client to process. To remedy this, the approach taken in this paper is to shift these
jobs from the thin client to a supporting server. The processed result at the supporting server end is encoded or transcoded to a pre-defined universal format; then sent back to the thin client. This architecture not only provides users with better accessibility to many applications, but also endows the thin client with the stub point to explore the user information
which is valueable in the aspect of marketing. Detailed descriptions and the analysis of this architecture are presented. We also conduct some experiments to prove the effectiveness and the efficiency of the proposed
architecture.
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