Image display device and method of communicating with an image display device over a network
AssigneeSeiko Epson Corporation
InventorsJoseph Castaldi, Robin F. Hoeye, Steven Thomas Hampson
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Abstract
In an image display device figured to be connected to a network, a method of communicating over the network with a remote device on the network is disclosed. The method includes receiving a message sent to a multicast address on the network by the remote device, wherein the message includes an instruction to the image display device to perform a function; and performing the function instructed by the message.
Claims4
1-64. (canceled)
A computer-implemented method embodied in a computer readable storage medium storing a computer program, for use in a computing device configured to be connected to a network to which an image display device is connected, the computer program comprising instructions executable to perform a function, comprising:
- forming a message to send to the image display device, wherein the message includes an instruction directing the image display device to perform the function and an identifier associated with the image display device;
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- sending the message to a multicast address on the network where the image display device performs the function when the identifier in the message has a preselected relationship to an image display device identifier associated with the image display device.
A computer program stored in a memory of an image display device configured to be connected to a network, wherein the image display device includes the memory and a processor, and wherein the memory includes the computer program stored thereon executable by the processor to perform a method of communicating over the network with a remote device on the network, the computer program comprising:
- a computer program segment for receiving a message sent to a multicast address on the network by the remote device, wherein the message includes an instruction to the image display device to perform a function and an identifier,
- a computer program segment for comparing the identifier in the message to a unique identifier associated with the image display device;
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- a computer program segment for performing the function instructed by the message when the identifier in the message has a preselected relationship to the unique identifier associated with the image display device.
A computer program stored in a memory of a computing device configured to be connected to a network, wherein the computing device includes memory and a processor, and wherein the memory includes the computer program stored thereon executable by the processor to perform a method of communicating with an image display device on the network, the computer program comprising:
- a computer program segment for forming a message to send to the image display device, wherein the message includes an instruction directing the image display device to perform the function wherein the message includes an identifier targeting the message to a specific image display device, and wherein the image display device is configured to compare the identifier in the message to a unique identifier associated with the image display device;
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- a computer program segment for sending the message to a multicast address on the network.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.