Grass Valley iControl Services Gateway - Manual (Page 3)

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Document Scope
The document‟ first mission is to present a comprehensive view of the functioning of an iControl™
Gateway that manages the access to Miranda Services registered to it, for the benefit of an application
programmer having to implement a Miranda Service‟ control application. The technologies used to
achieve this mission are briefly identified. The key concepts required to understand the operation of an
iC
ontrol™ Gateway and the implementation of application controlling Miranda Services through an
iControl™ Gateway are introduced and described.
The document‟ second mission is to concisely specify the activities and sequences an application is
required to
handle in order to identify, assess, and control Miranda Services through an iControl ™
Gateway.
The document‟ third mission is to provide through case studies concrete examples of control scenarios
of Miranda Services registered to an iControl™ Gateway, using the iControl ™ Gateway XML API, and
the sequences described in this document.