US 10,856,130 B2 · Smart discovery of wireless receivers

Abstract

The present disclosure discloses automated discovery of and seamless connection to wireless receivers for mirroring, extending, and/or projecting images, audio, and/or video from a computing device to the wireless receivers. A smart discovery program discovers a specific wireless receiver that matches a location for a meeting and provides the user with an option to wirelessly connect to the matching receiver during the meeting. The smart discovery program may also use a current location of the computing device to provide a user with a list relevant wireless receivers. Relevant receivers may include those receivers that are both available and located near the computing device. When a computing device connects to a wireless receiver, it may store the receiver ID for the connected receiver in a local receiver log so that the computing device may use this information to connect to the same receiver at a later time.

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Dependent claims

A computer-implemented method for identifying a suggested wireless receiver to a user of a computing device, wherein the method comprises:

receiving a request to connect the computing device to a wireless receiver for one or more of mirroring, extending, and projecting one or more of an image, a video, and audio from the computing device to the wireless receiver, and wherein the request to connect is associated with a request time;
determining that the user of the computing device has a scheduled appointment, wherein a time of the scheduled appointment matches the request time;
retrieving a location of the scheduled appointment;
identifying a wireless receiver that is associated with the location of the scheduled appointment;
presenting the wireless receiver that is associated with the location of the scheduled appointment as the suggested wireless receiver to the user of the computing device;
and
using a Miracast protocol to connect the computing device to the suggested wireless receiver.

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A computing device for discovering one or more relevant wireless receivers in a system comprising a plurality of available wireless receivers connected to the computing device via a network, the computing device comprising:

a processor;
memory storing computer-readable instructions that when executed by the processor causes the computing device to:
receive a request to connect the computing device to a wireless receiver for one or more of mirroring, extending, and projecting one or more of an image, a video, and audio from the computing device to the wireless receiver;
determine a current location of the computing device;
send a broadcast query seeking an identity of each of the plurality of available wireless receivers, wherein the broadcast query includes a query ID;
receive a query response with a location hint and the query ID from one or more responding receivers;
add a responding receiver to a list of relevant receivers when the location hint in the query response from the responding receiver matches the current location of the computing device;
and
use a wireless multimedia display protocol to connect the computing device to a receiver in the list of relevant receivers.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

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Abstract

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