Electro-quasistatic enabled devices

A streaming media player device comprising:

• a wireless radio;
• a wired interface;
• one or more processors;
• a converter circuitry coupled to the one or more processors;
• a first electrode, coupled to the converter circuitry and positioned adjacent to a metal structure;
• and
• one or more computer readable media storing first processor executable instructions which, when executed using the one or more processors, cause the streaming media player device to perform operations comprising:
• receiving, using the wireless radio, first data representing streaming content,
• sending, via the wired interface, video data representing the streaming content to a television,
• providing a first datagram to the converter circuitry,
• determining a noise waveform associated with the metal structure,
• encoding, using the noise waveform, the first datagram as a first modulated signal waveform, and
• transmitting, by the first electrode, the first modulated signal waveform via electro quasistatic transmission through the metal structure.

A method comprising:

• determining, using one or more processors of a streaming media player device physically connected to a television, first message data representing a message to be communicated to an accessory device;
• determining a noise waveform associated with a metal structure,
• generating, based on the first message data and using a first modulation scheme and the noise waveform, first signal data;
• supplying time-varying electric current to an electrode of the streaming media player device that causes time-varying electric field fluctuations representative of the signal data with a frequency of less than 100 megahertz to propagate through the television and to an electrode of an accessory device physically connected to the television.

A streaming media player device comprising:

• one or more processors;
• one or more computer readable media storing processor executable instructions which, when executed using the one or more processors, cause the streaming media player device to perform operations comprising
• determining, using one or more processors of a streaming media player device physically connected to a television, first message data representing a message to be communicated to an accessory device,
• determining a noise waveform associated with a metal structure,
• generating, based on the first message data and using a first modulation scheme and the noise waveform, first signal data,
• providing electric current to an electrode of the streaming media player device that causes generation of a time-varying electro-quasistatic (EQS) field representative of the message data.