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US 9,319,741 B2Granted
Finding devices in an entertainment system
AssigneeRateze Remote Mgmt LLC
InventorsPatrick T. Igoe, Leonid Kravets
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Abstract
A wireless device may receive from a source device an instruction to present program content. The wireless device may determine device types missing from an entertainment system based on supporting playback of the program content. A device type missing from the entertainment system may be registered. An instruction may be transmitted to an active source device to increment or decrement a counter. The counter may represent a total number of zones that receives data from the active source device.
Claims17
A method comprising:
- receiving, by a wireless device from a source device, an instruction to present program content registered with the wireless device;
- determining, by the wireless device, a plurality of device types missing from an entertainment system based on requirements to support playback of the program content;
- registering, at the wireless device, a device type missing from the entertainment system, wherein the registering is in response to receiving a user-provided indication that the missing device type is present in the entertainment system;
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- transmitting an instruction to an active source device to increment or decrement a counter based on transmitting to a first registered sink device in a first zone, wherein the counter represents a total number of zones that receives data from the active source device.
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A wireless device comprising:
- a transceiver configured to receive, from a source device, an instruction to present program content registered with the wireless device;
- a processor configured to determine a plurality of device types missing from an entertainment system based on requirements to support playback of the program content;
- the processor further configured to register a device type missing from the entertainment system, wherein the registering is in response to receiving a user-provided indication that the missing device type is present in the entertainment system;
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- the transceiver configured to transmit an instruction to an active source device to increment or decrement a counter based on a transmission to a first registered sink device in a first zone, the counter representing a total number of zones that receives data from the active source device.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.