ASP perspectives on networked appliances
Anup K. Ghosh, Dave Marples, Stephen K. Moyer · 2002
ASPs (application service providers) today provide a means for businesses to outsource their applications thus saving on setup and maintenance costs. This paper presents an example of an ASP providing a service to a specialized networked device: a networked alarm clock. This example is used to illustrate the issues ASPs would need to deal with to provide services to specialized networked devices within a home network.