Methods and systems for discovery of a processing offloader

A system, comprising:

• a memory that includes instructions for discovering a processing offloader, wherein the instructions, when executed by at least one processor, cause the at least one processor to perform operations including:
• identifying a processing offloader and a multimedia device in a networked environment;
• determining that a processing bandwidth of the multimedia device falls below a threshold processing bandwidth;
• forwarding multimedia content rendering instructions from the multimedia device to the processing offloader based on determining that the processing bandwidth of the multimedia device falls below the threshold processing bandwidth;
• transmitting a communication to the multimedia device indicating a request to enable a proxy configured to output received multimedia content and disable a native user interface (UI) executing on the multimedia device;
• and
• forwarding rendered multimedia content from the processing offloader to the multimedia device.

One or more tangible, non-transitory computer-readable media storing instructions that, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform operations comprising:

• identifying a processing offloader and a multimedia device in a networked environment;
• determining that a processing bandwidth of the multimedia device falls below a threshold processing bandwidth;
• forwarding multimedia content rendering instructions from the multimedia device to the processing offloader based on determining that the processing bandwidth of the multimedia device falls below the threshold processing bandwidth;
• transmitting a communication to the multimedia device indicating a request to enable a proxy configured to output received multimedia content and disable a native user interface (UI) executing on the multimedia device;
• and
• forwarding rendered multimedia content from the processing offloader to the multimedia device.