In “UPnP IPv4/IPv6 bridge for home networking environment,” Chung-Sheng Li from Institute of Information Engineering National in Taiwan, and coauthors Yueh-Min Huang and Han-Chieh Chao propose a UPnP IPv4/IPv6 bridge for control points and devices can interoperate between IPv4 and IPv6 protocols.

This allows communications with each other although some of them support only IPv4 and others support IPv6. It uses Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) are to allow consumer electronics, intelligent appliances (IA) and mobile devices from different vendors to be internet connected seamlessly and installed easily at home.