Device registration using a wireless home entertainment hub
AssigneePorto Vinci Ltd. Limited Liability Company
InventorPatrick T. Igoe
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Abstract
A method of managing a power state of devices in a home entertainment system using a wireless home entertainment hub comprises obtaining a registration of a plurality of devices, where the plurality of devices includes at least one sink device and at least one source device. A selection of one of the source devices is received for presentation of program content to a user in the home entertainment system. A subset of the at least one sink device is determined for presentation of the program content to the user based on the selection of the source device. Each sink device in the subset of the at least one sink device is ensured to be active.
Claims17
A method of registering a device with a wireless home entertainment hub, the method comprising:
- broadcasting by a wireless home entertainment hub a request for a reply from a set of one or more coordinated devices produced by a manufacturer and forming a coordinated home entertainment system;
- receiving the reply from each of the one or more coordinated devices, the reply including a coordinated identifier indicating that each of the one or more coordinated devices belong to the coordinated home entertainment system, the coordinated identifier being unique for each device of the one or more coordinated devices and set by the manufacturer;
- registering each of the one or more coordinated devices with the wireless home entertainment hub based on each coordinated identifier associated with each of the respective one or more coordinated devices;
- storing an indication of each of the registrations of the one or more coordinated devices;
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- facilitating the presentation of program content by the one or more coordinated devices to a user of the home entertainment system.
A method of registering a device with a wireless home entertainment hub in a home entertainment system, the method comprising:
- recognizing by a device a broadcast request for a reply from the wireless home entertainment hub;
- transmitting to the wireless home entertainment hub a reply in response to the request including a coordinated identifier indicating that each of the one or more coordinated devices belong to the coordinated home entertainment system, the coordinated identifier being, the coordinated identifier being unique for each device of the one or more coordinated devices and is set by a manufacturer of the device;
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- facilitating the presentation of program content to a user of the home entertainment system in response to information received from the wireless home entertainment hub indicating a registration of the device based on the coordinated identifier.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.