Discovering and controlling multiple media rendering devices utilizing different networking protocols

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9516355-B2
Application number	US-201314018054-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 4, 2013
Priority date	Sep 4, 2013
Publication date	Dec 6, 2016
Grant date	Dec 6, 2016

Abstract

A virtual media rendering device acts as a proxy for physical media rendering devices that lack support for a designated common protocol such as UPnP/DLNA. The virtual device conforms to a designated common media rendering control protocol so that media rendering devices on the network that do not support the common protocol may be accessible via the common media rendering protocol through the virtual media rendering device. Requests received by the virtual media rendering device using the common protocol are converted to the media rendering control protocol used by the proxied physical media rendering device. The virtual media rendering device appears to other devices on the network as if it were a physical device.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A method for controlling media rendering devices, the method comprising:
determining presence of a physical media rendering device on a network, the physical media rendering device using a first media rendering control protocol;
in response to determining the presence of the physical media rendering device, creating a virtual media rendering proxy representing the physical media rendering device, the virtual media rendering proxy using a second media rende…

Assignees

• Qualcomm Inc

Inventors

• Caunter Mark Leslie

Classifications

• H04L69/08 Primary

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• H04L67/16

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• H04L12/281

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• H04N21/2381

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• H04L65/105

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