Multi-device complexity broker
AssigneeAT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
InventorsAndrea Basso, Lee Begeja, David Gibbon, Zhu Liu, Bernard S. Renger, Behzad Shahraray
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Abstract
The present invention provides for a brokering device adapted to manage multimedia information including an interface device having access to a network and a multimedia service provider. The interface device enables selection of multimedia information from the network and provides the selected multimedia information to a plurality of locations without requiring the user to specify a protocol associated with the multimedia information.
Claims19
A brokering device to manage multimedia information, the brokering device comprising:
- an interface device configured to select a multimedia content file, the interface device being configured to provide the selected multimedia content file to a plurality of multimedia devices without requiring a user to specify a protocol associated with the selected multimedia content file;
- a control module including a processing device, the processing device configured to discover the selected multimedia content file on a network and provide a function to a multimedia device in compliance with a policy;
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- a rule engine that communicates with the control module to provide the policy, the policy comprising an internal policy or an external policy, the policy permitting discovery of only a predetermined limited set of multimedia content files.
A system for managing multimedia information comprising:
- a brokering device to manage multimedia information, the brokering device including:
- an interface device operative to select a multimedia content file, the interface device being configured to provide the selected multimedia content file to a plurality of multimedia devices without requiring a user to specify a protocol associated with the selected multimedia content file;
- a control module including a processing device configured to discover the selected multimedia content file on a network and provide functions to a multimedia device in compliance with a policy;
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- a rule engine that communicates with the control module to provide the policy, the policy comprising an internal policy or an external policy, the policy permitting discovery only of a predetermined limited set of multimedia content files;
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- a multimedia device configured to play the selected multimedia content file.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.