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US 10,476,989 B2Granted
Remote management system for cinema exhibition devices
AssigneeDolby Laboratories Licensing Corporation
InventorsHenry Barnor, Eric Christopher Crowe, Thomas Turner Persons
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Abstract
Methods and systems for management of cinema devices are disclosed. The cinema devices can connect to a central node even through a firewall. Once the initial connection is established, updates and commands can be sent and received, both to and from the cinema devices. An operator can connect to the central node to manage the cinema devices.
Claims11
A method comprising:
- providing a plurality of cinema devices, a central node, and an operator device;
- initiating a communication from the plurality of cinema devices to the central node;
- asynchronously sending updates from the plurality of cinema devices to the central node;
- receiving the updates on the operator device from the central node;
- asynchronously sending commands from the operator device to the central node;
- and
- asynchronously sending the commands from the central node to the plurality of cinema devices,
- wherein the plurality of cinema devices comprises a cinema processor, and the asynchronously sending updates comprises sending, from the cinema processor, a current macro, a format of an audio bitstream, a fader level, a mute status, a speaker configuration, and a state of a hardware of the cinema processor.
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A method comprising:
- providing a plurality of cinema devices, a central node, and an operator device;
- initiating a communication from the plurality of cinema devices to the central node;
- asynchronously sending updates from the plurality of cinema devices to the central node;
- receiving the updates on the operator device from the central node;
- asynchronously sending commands from the operator device to the central node;
- and
- asynchronously sending the commands from the central node to the plurality of cinema devices,
- wherein the plurality of cinema devices comprises a cinema processor, and the asynchronously sending updates comprises sending, from the cinema processor, at least one of:
- a current macro, a format of an audio bitstream, a fader level, a mute status, a speaker configuration, and a state of a hardware of the cinema processor.
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