US 9,178,712 B2 · Remote audio

Abstract

Various embodiments for remote presentation of an interface of a computing device, such as a PC, are described herein. In particular, in various illustrated embodiments, a local device such as a Digital Media Adapter (DMA), mobile device, cellular telephone, etc. may be used to receive input from a remote control, where the local device provides human perceptible feedback, such as a sound, visual response, etc., responsive to use of the remote control. In some embodiments, the local device may contain a memory or cache for locally storing particular feedback data for human perceptible feedback. In various embodiments, a communication protocol is provided for storing, triggering, deleting, etc. feedback data in the memory or cache. Other embodiments may be disclosed or claimed.

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Dependent claims

A system for rendering content over a network to an output device, comprising:

a digital media adapter including a memory and communicatively coupled to a content providing device to:
receive feedback data from the content providing device;
and
store the received feedback data in a feedback cache of the memory of the digital media adapter;
and
a remote control, different from the output device, to communicate with the digital media adapter where commands are to be relayed to the content providing device for user selection and control of content to be rendered on the output device, the content being different from the feedback data,
wherein responsive to a user making a selection on the remote control to change the content to be rendered, the digital media adapter renders, on the output device, the previously stored feedback data to generate a human perceptible response indicative of the selection;
and
wherein the feedback cache is configurable by the content providing device to modify which particular feedback data is associated with a particular user selection on the remote control.

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A method for presenting an interface to a user, the method comprising:

receiving, by a digital media adapter, data from a remote control communicatively coupled to the digital media adapter and local area network for controlling transfer of content to an output device coupled to the local area network, the data identifying at least an activation by the user of a feature of the remote control to change the content to be rendered;
and
determining whether a memory of the digital media adapter contains a custom human perceptible response associated with the activated feature of the remote control, the custom human perceptible response having been received from a content providing device and stored on the digital media adapter, prior to the user's activation of the feature of the remote control, to replace a default human perceptible response previously associated with the activated feature of the remote control, the custom human perceptible response being different from user-selectable content of the content providing device;
and
presenting, on the output device, the associated custom human perceptible response to the user in response to determining the memory contains the custom human perceptible response.

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A non-transitory machine accessible storage medium having machine executable instructions stored thereon, the instructions when executed by an apparatus, cause the apparatus to:

receive, by a digital media adapter, data from a remote control communicatively coupled to the digital media adapter and local area network for controlling transfer of content to an output device coupled to the local area network, the data identifying at least an activation by the user of a feature of the remote control to change the content to be rendered;
and
determine whether a feedback cache in a memory of the digital media adapter contains a human perceptible response associated with the activated feature of the remote control, the human perceptible response having been received from a content providing device and stored on the digital media adapter prior to the user's activation of the feature of the remote control and being different from user-selectable content of the content providing device, wherein the feedback cache is configurable by the content providing device to change the human perceptible response that is associated with the activated feature of the remote control;
and
present, on the output device, the associated human perceptible response to the user in response to determining the memory contains the human perceptible response.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

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